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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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- Building Public Health Capacity to Advance Equity is an environmental scan funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) to explore governmental public health’s role in advancing health equity with racial equity as a major priority and community engagement as a central strategy. The project team consisted of ten partner organizations collaborating to examine the federal landscape and the capacity…January 2019Policy and Practice
- In 2005, PASOs, a community-reaching organization created in response to research showing that Latino families in South Carolina value health and wellness, began addressing the need for trusted sources of information and support to address challenges and fill in gaps. PASOs, which means steps in Spanish, works with the rapidly growing Latino population of South Carolina to promote health,…October 2018Services & Programs
- With support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Prevention Institute initiated Partnering for Health Equity: Grassroots Organizations on Collaborating with Public Health Agencies to better understand community perspectives on the challenges, opportunities, facilitators, and barriers to working with public health agencies to advance health equity. Prevention Institute spoke to organizational…August 2018Policy and Practice
- California is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse states in the United States. In fact, racial and ethnic minorities are now the majority in California, with the proportion of Latinos now surpassing Whites. However, non-White groups – namely, Latinos, African-Americans, and American Indians – are underrepresented in health professions that require an undergraduate or graduate degree.…July 2018Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- Health disparities exact a devastating toll upon Indigenous people in the United States. However, there has been scant research investment to develop strategies to address these inequities in Indigenous health. We present a case for increased health promotion, prevention, and treatment research with Indigenous populations. providing context to the recent NIH investment in the Intervention…November 2017Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Environmental/Community Health
- Background: Structural violence shapes the health of Indigenous peoples globally, and is deeply embedded in history, individual and institutional racism, and inequitable social policies and practices. Many Indigenous communities have flourished, however, the impact of colonialism continues to have profound health effects for Indigenous peoples in Canada and internationally. Despite increasing…October 2016Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Services & Programs
- There is a clear need for greater diversity in the field of art therapy, with a particular need to increase the representation of racial and ethnic minorities in educational programs. In a sample of 16 art therapy program directors, strategies and barriers to recruitment were identified through an anonymous online survey. The results of the survey indicate that a majority of programs would like…July 2015Services & Programs
- This article describes a framework and empirical evidence to support the argument that educational programs and policies are crucial public health interventions. Concepts of education and health are developed and linked, and we review a wide range of empirical studies to clarify pathways of linkage and explore implications. Basic educational expertise and skills, including fundamental knowledge,…May 2015Advocacy, Communication
- For the poorest people, moving out of poverty can be an enormous challenge. But continuing to stay out of poverty for the rest of their lives is a much greater and for some, impossible, task. Many people rise above the poverty line only to tumble back beneath it. This report demonstrates that escaping from poverty is not a one-way street – many families slide back below the poverty line because…March 2014Policy and Practice
- Institutional review boards (IRBs) function to regulate research for the protection of human participants. We share lessons learned from the development of an intertribal IRB in the Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Tribal region of the United States. We describe the process through which a consortium of Tribes collaboratively developed an intertribal board to promote community-level protection and…December 2013Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
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