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The Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE) Resource Library is a virtual portal containing action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies. The library aims to increase equity in health by offering free access to field-tested, evidence-informed and evidence-based programs strategies and high-quality research.
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- Despite remarkable progress, tobacco control efforts are not equitably distributed, and tobacco-related disparities continue to contribute to significant health disparities. Our premise in this commentary is that Intersectionality can serve as a productive analytical framework for examining tobacco-related disparities across and within multiple marginalized populations. Intersectionality is a…February 2022Environment/Context
- Systemic racism damages the health of people of color, and can also damage the health and well-being of virtually the entire society in which it operates. Systemic racism is racism that is pervasively and deeply embedded in systems and structures such as laws, written or unwritten policies, and widespread, deeply rooted, established practices, beliefs, and attitudes that produce, condone, and…January 2022Social/Structural Determinants, Racism
- Prior research has found socio-economic determinants such as education to affect health outcomes. Yet, education is not distributed equally among the population. This article attempts to quantify the impact of unequal distribution of education on inequalities in life expectancy. We calculate a Gini coefficient of longevity from the life tables provided by the Human Mortality Database and a Gini…December 2021Aging and Life Course
- Philanthropic partnerships are having their day in the sun. Their impact could be even greater with a clearer path to investing in collaborative funds and a shift in donor mindsets. Over the past decade, philanthropic collaboration has entered a new era of popularity and ambition. Driven by institutional and high-net-worth funders seeking greater impact by acting collectively and by fund leaders…December 2021Services & Programs
- Intersectionality is a theoretical framework that was developed to address the ways in which people's experiences are shaped based on their intersecting social identities (e. g., race/ethnicity, gender, class, age, etc.). This approach focuses on the importance of considering power, privilege, and social structures in relation to people's access to resources, experiences of discrimination, and…December 2021Social/Structural Determinants
- In this research note, I estimate one component of the mortality impact of denying all wanted induced abortions in the United States. This estimate quantifies the magnitude of an increase in pregnancy-related deaths that would occur solely because of the greater mortality risk of continuing a pregnancy rather than having a legal induced abortion. Using published statistics on pregnancy-related…December 2021Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Abortion Access
- To effectively support asthma self-management among children most at risk for poor outcomes, it is important to examine potential disparities in parents' asthma-related knowledge. This study draws on baseline data collected from a randomized controlled trial to analyze how knowledge of asthma self-management varies by sociodemographic characteristics in a racially and economically diverse sample…November 2021Asthma, Adolescent Health, Education
- Purpose: Very little research has examined mental health among transgender people of color using population-based data. The objective of this study was to use large-scale data to examine mental health disparities at the intersections of gender identity, race, and ethnicity.Methods: Data for this study came from transgender (n = 4024) and cisgender (n = 935,793) adults aged 18 years and older in…November 2021Mental/Behavioral Health
- Background: As part of a Domestic Violence and Health care Partnership (DVHCP) project in California, 19 leadership teams consisting of representatives from domestic violence agencies and health care delivery systems in California came together to improve care related to intimate partner violence (IPV). We evaluated the impact of a Quality Assessment/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) tool on health…November 2021Domestic Violence
- Background: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people present poorer mental and physical health results compared to the heterosexual and cisgender population. There are barriers in the healthcare system that increase these health inequities.Objective: To synthesise the available evidence on how nurses can intervene in reducing health inequities in LGBT people, identifying their…November 2021Chronic Disease, Mental/Behavioral Health, Health Reform, Social/Structural Determinants
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