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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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  • Intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are impairments that present before 18 years of age which impact cognition, ability to learn, and adaptive behaviors such as activities of daily living. People with IDD experience disproportionate health challenges, including higher rates of diabetes, and are at higher risk of severe outcomes or death due to COVID-19. They receive prenatal care at…
    July 2024
    Mental/Behavioral Health, Advocacy
  • ODP selected 10 young artists from across the country to receive cash prizes for their original art showing what people or communities can do to prevent disease and injury, support well-being, and promote more equitable health outcomes for everyone (learn more about ODP’s art challenge below). ODP awarded prizes based on the artwork’s creativity, quality, and thoughtfulness about how prevention…
    May 2024
    Advocacy
  • ECHO autism communities are the first ECHO programs to regularly include people with lived experience on ECHO sessions as equal experts and teachers to other providers. (author description) #P4HEwebinarJuly2024
    April 2024
    Advocacy
  • Grassroots advocacy movement with a goal of creating a dynamic community to empower and grow disability leaders within healthcare organizations. (website description) #P4HEwebinarJuly2024
    January 2024
    Advocacy
  • An estimated 1.3 billion people – or 16% of global population worldwide – experience a significant disability today. Persons with disabilities have the right to the highest attainable standard of health as those without disabilities. However, the WHO Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities demonstrates that while some progress has been made in recent years, the world is still…
    January 2024
    Advocacy
  • Purpose: The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth report recommends several Medicaid policies to increase insurance coverage among adolescents: approve Medicaid expansion; eliminate the 5-year Medicaid waiting period for lawfully present adolescent immigrants; increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for adolescent health services to the level of Medicare; and ensure coverage…
    October 2023
    Advocacy, Access
  • In this P4HE podcast episode, we talk with Colin Killick, Executive Director of Disability Policy Consortium, about how and why the disability community has been largely left out of the health equity conversation. We cover what health equity should look like for people with disabilities and the Social Model of Disability, its definition of disability, and how this impacts advocacy and policy…
    July 2023
    Advocacy, Social/Structural Determinants
  • The COVID-19 pandemic amplified some of the undeniable and unacceptable inequities in our society, and it finally feels like there is meaningful momentum to address the injustice of health inequities. Although we, the co-authors of this blog, welcome this incredibly important collective action to enhance health equity, as disabled people ourselves, we fear that current equity-focused work largely…
    April 2022
    Advocacy, Health Reform
  • This guest editorial introduces the rationale and goals of the Physical Activity Research Center. It provides an overview of the five papers in this Special Section plus six commissioned studies intended to inform advocacy efforts. (author abstract)
    December 2019
    Obesity, Advocacy
  • Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be physically and mentally healthy. Here at Youth MOVE, we run into the term health equity often when dealing with high-level professionals across several fields. But when it comes to our own Youth MOVE chapter members or youth advocates on the ground, there seems to be a disconnect. Let us tell you once and for all: being a…
    June 2019
    Advocacy
  • Massachusetts state law includes a tremendous opportunity for city and town disability commissions to make their communities more accessible and more inclusive of people with disabilities. By persuading local government to adopt section 22G, commissions get access to the money collected from fines when individuals park illegally in accessible parking spaces (previously known as Handicapped…
    June 2017
    Advocacy
  • Changes to Connecticut’s Medicaid program (HUSKY) in 2008 provided a unique opportunity to examine the impact of new policies on the oral health outcomes of low-income children. Higher Medicaid reimbursement rates, streamlined provider enrollment procedures for participating dentists, as well as outreach to communities, individuals and dentists helped expand access to dental services and remedy…
    February 2016
    Advocacy
  • Because children are entirely dependent upon their parents and families to coordinate their dental care, CT Health funded Connecticut Voices for Children to conduct an analysis to better understand family factors that are associated with increased access to preventive dental care for kids covered by HUSKY (Medicaid).This infographic hones in on three factors that greatly increase the likelihood…
    April 2015
    Advocacy, Social/Structural Determinants
  • Low-income children are much more likely to suffer oral health disease but are also much less likely to obtain dental care. Historically in Connecticut, a significant barrier to care for kids on HUSKY A (Healthcare for UninSured Kids and Youth), the state’s Medicaid program for low-income families, was low private dentist participation. Many providers cited low reimbursement rates and cumbersome…
    December 2014
    Advocacy

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