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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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- Patients of color are less likely than White patients to report being the same race as their healthcare providers. The disparity could have negative implications for patient-provider relationships and patient health outcomes.The Issue: Historical medical mistreatment of Black people in America, and other people of color, has contributed to a mistrust of healthcare providers within these groups.…March 2022Services & Programs, Racism
- The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated and amplified the harsh reality of health inequities experienced by racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States. Members of these groups have disproportionately been infected and died from COVID-19, yet they still lack equitable access to treatment and vaccines. Lack of equitable access to high-quality health care is in large part a result of…February 2022Vaccine Access and Uptake, Health Reform, Racism
- 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
- 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
- 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
- In 2018, prostate cancer was the most diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of death from cancer among men in the United States (106.8 cases/100,000 and 7.8 deaths/100,000) and in Oklahoma (95.7 cases/100,000 and 8.4 deaths/100,000). Nationally, Oklahoma ranks 39th worst among all states in prostate cancer incidence and 13th worst in overall prostate cancer mortality. Prostate cancer…November 2021Cancer
- Many chronic health conditions are preventable, yet they are leading causes of death and disability in the United States. In addition, people with certain chronic health conditions are more likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID-19 than people without them. Poor diet is one prominent risk factor for chronic health conditions, alongside tobacco use, physical inactivity, and others. Numerous…August 2021Cancer, Diabetes, Heart disease
- Improving DE&I among the health care workforce is an important component of ensuring health equity. Research by Deloitte and NAHSE aims to ascertain where the industry is in terms of DE&I in the workforce and what it can do to improve performance. (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarMay2023July 2021Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- Creating healthy and sustainable communities of opportunity requires changing systems and structures to center the priorities and well-being of low-income communities of color. Since 2007, the Convergence Partnership has pushed the boundaries of philanthropy to advance a vision of Healthy People, Healthy Places through the lens of health equity. The Partnership supports policy and systems change…July 2021Advocacy
- Given the COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate effects on people of color and increased attention to racial justice in the US, initiatives to increase health equity are sprouting up across the country (Ndugga, Artiga, and Pham 2021).These efforts range from addressing immediate health and social needs among communities most affected by the pandemic’s impacts to broader and longer-range policy…July 2021Policy and Practice
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