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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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- 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
- Mental health disorders are among the most burdensome health concerns in the United States. Nearly 1 in 5 US adults aged 18 or older (18.3% or 44.7 million people) reported any mental illness in 2016. Many people with mental health disorders also need care for other physical health conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, respiratory illness, and disorders that affect muscles, bones, and…July 2018Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- Over 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons every year. They reenter their communities with a set of complex needs and challenging vulnerabilities, including chronic physical and behavioral health conditions, unstable housing, and impediments to finding and retaining quality jobs. Many struggle to reintegrate and a large share are rearrested or reincarcerated within a…March 2018Criminal History, Services & Programs
- Current approaches to health care quality have failed to reduce health care disparities. Despite dramatic increases in the use of quality measurement and associated payment policies, there has been no notable implementation of measurement strategies to reduce health disparities. The National Quality Forum developed a road map to demonstrate how measurement and associated policies can contribute…March 2018Health Reform
- The 2018 AAMC Social Justice Behind and Beyond the Bars: Criminal Justice Health and Academic Medicine Community Engagement Toolkit features videos, resources, and discussion questions that community members and academic health centers can use to:Understand the critical issues in correctional healthUnderstand the role of policy and the social determinants of health in creating and perpetuating…January 2018Environment/Context
- The United States spends nearly $3.5 trillion on medical care each year, with more than 80 percent spent on treating chronic disease — most of which is avoidable and concentrated among those living in low-income communities. Thus, over $1 trillion is spent every year on treating avoidable disease created by conditions of poverty, which can negatively affect the health of future generations. …January 2018Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Services & Programs
- By providing data on union coverage, activities, and impacts, this report helps explain how unions fit into the economy today; how they affect workers, communities, occupations and industries, and the country at large; and why collective bargaining is essential for a fair and prosperous economy and a vibrant democracy. It also describes how decades of anti-union campaigns and policies have made…August 2017Services & Programs
- The formation of hospital-community partnerships to improve health and well-being is becoming widespread across the United States, with many hospitals taking a lead role in initiating and fostering these partnerships. This collaborative approach is effective because many different community organizations are addressing similar issues and serving the same populations. Collaboration creates an…July 2017Policy and Practice
- Leaders of health care organizations need to be prepared to improve quality and achieve equity in today’s health care environment characterized by a focus on achieving value and addressing disparities in a diverse population. To help address this need, the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital launched the Disparities Leadership Program in 2007. The leadership program is…June 2017Services & Programs
- The Health Initiative of the Americas (HIA) at the University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health, is considered one of the world’s leading programs on health and migration. Established in 2001, HIA works binationally with Latin American governments and public and private institutions, and agencies, as well as with grassroots organizations in the U.S. to improve health outcomes,…January 2017Services & Programs
- Community-based participatory research is a promising approach to reducing health disparities. It empowers individuals and communities to become the major players in solving their own health problems. We discuss the use of community-based participatory research and other strategies to enhance empowerment. We also discuss projects from the Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities that…August 2016Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Health care providers have long struggled with the utility of race in the prescribing and dosing of medications. It is widely accepted that self-identified race often correlates with geographical ancestry, that geographical ancestry is a major determinant of genomic variation, and that genomic variation can influence reactions to drugs. The challenge for clinicians, however, is that self-…May 2016Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- Homelessness can be surprisingly costly for taxpayers. Fortunately, socially-responsible, cost effective solutions exist. For many city officials, community leaders, and even direct service providers, it often seems that placing homeless people in shelters is the most inexpensive way to meet the basic needs of people experiencing homelessness; some may even believe that shelters are an…April 2016Housing Discrimination
- This study investigates how racial and ethnic disparities in treatment episode completion vary across different problem substances in an urban sample of 416,224 outpatient treatment discharges drawn from the 2011 U.S. Treatment Episode Dataset-Discharge (TEDS-D) data set. Fixed effects logistic regression is employed to test for the association of race and ethnicity with treatment episode…April 2016Substance Use and Misuse
- Health equity is an area of intense focus for philanthropy, fueled by a sense of urgency about the need to reverse long-standing destructive trends. It is an area in which health philanthropy has shown consistent leadership in support of innovative work. Our goal in this supplement is to lift up new voices and approaches in health equity and to highlight the work of funders and community…March 2016Advocacy
- In an op-ed piece in the New York Times on Wednesday, columnist Thomas Edsall opened with a pair of provocative questions: If its goal is to move up the ladder, where should a poor family live? Should federal dollars go toward affordable housing within high-poverty neighborhoods, or should subsidies be used to move residents of impoverished communities into more upscale—and more resistant—…August 2015Housing Discrimination, Physical Environment, Systemic Determinants
- Justice as fair and equal treatment for all is one of the core visions for health professional education to reduce racial and economic health disparities in bioethics, nursing and medicine. However, the current reality of deeply entrenched structural inequities across race, class, gender, and social privilege make it a challenge for students to become aware of practical health equity solutions.…August 2015Policy and Practice
- On July 23, 2015, Denise Gonzales, program director at the Con Alma Health Foundation, and Susan Wilger, MPAff, director of programs at the National Center for Frontier Communities, discussed health equity challenges and opportunities in rural communities of New Mexico, and how lessons learned from recent work can be applied to rural Colorado. More than 100 people attended the presentation at the…July 2015Environment/Context
- Context: Health inequalities are systematic differences in health among social groups that are caused by unequal exposure to—and distributions of—the social determinants of health (SDH). They are persistent between and within countries despite action to reduce them. Advocacy is a means of promoting policies that improve health equity, but the literature on how to do so effectively is…June 2015Advocacy
- Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth brought school-connected mental health services to immigrants and refugees in 15 communities in eight states. From 2007 to 2010, partnerships developed model mental health programs that engaged schools, families, students, mental health agencies, and other local organizations in building culturally appropriate…February 2015Anxiety, Depression, Racism
- ObjectivesWe sought to understand how local immigration enforcement policies affect the utilization of health services among immigrant Hispanics/Latinos in North Carolina.MethodsIn 2012, we analyzed vital records data to determine whether local implementation of section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Secure Communities program, which authorizes local law enforcement…February 2015Migration
- Understanding physician perspectives on the intersection of race and genomics in clinical decision making is critical as personalized medicine and genomics become more integrated in health care services. There is a paucity of literature in the United States of America (USA) and globally regarding how health care providers understand and use information about race, ethnicity and genetic variation…October 2014Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- Since 2007, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has invested more than $20 million to support development of health equity collaboration within and across AA and NHPI communities throughout the nation. As a result of this investment – in partnership with the Asian Pacific Islander Health Forum (APIAHF) and Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) – significant learning has already been surfaced focusing…August 2014Social/Structural Determinants
- The release of the Institute of Medicine’s reports Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century over a decade ago led to numerous efforts in programs, practice, and research to improve health equity and health care quality. The pediatric community has been in the forefront of this effort providing “…March 2014Policy and Practice
- On Feb. 26, 2014, Mildred Thompson, Director, PolicyLink Center for Health Equity and Place, presented PolicyLink’s plan for creating a more equitable society where everyone can participate and thrive. She discussed how reducing inequality is essential to creating health equity.The Trust encourages you to keep the health equity discussion going. Here is a summary of the book All-In Nation: An…February 2014Environment/Context
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