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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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  • US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft guidance from April 2022 calls for the improvement of clinical trial enrollment of participants from historically excluded racial and ethnic populations, and key organizations have made similar calls for more diverse representation among oncology trial participants. Earlier research offered evidence of racial and ethnic inequities in clinical trial…
    July 2023
    Cancer
  • Historical trauma has been posited as a key framework for conceptualizing and addressing health equity in Indigenous populations. Using a community-based participatory approach, this study aimed to examine historical trauma and key psycho-social correlates among urban Indigenous adults at risk for diabetes to inform diabetes and other chronic disease prevention strategies. Indigenous adult…
    April 2023
    Diabetes
  • Background Although preventable through screening, cervical cancer incidence and mortality are higher among American Indian and Alaska Native women (AIAN) than White women. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansions may uniquely impact access and use of cervical cancer screening among AIAN women and ultimately alleviate this disparity. Methods Using Medicaid…
    January 2023
    Cancer, Medicaid
  • Community-based participatory strategies are a promising approach to addressing disparities in community health outcomes. This paper details the efforts of Siteman Cancer Center to achieve breast health equity over the past 15+ years. We begin by describing the activities and successes arising from our breast health community partnerships including identifying priorities, developing…
    May 2022
    Cancer
  • Women’s Health Research at Yale is changing science to address the health needs of women and improve outcomes for everyone. Recent work funded by The Community Foundation is developing heart disease treatment that accurately responds to the biology and experiences of women. (author abstract) 
    December 2021
    Heart disease
  • Health disparities in breast cancer are complex and pervasive across the spectrum of the patient journey and range from unequal access to cancer screening and tools for cancer prevention, such as genetic testing, to racial differences in cancer survivorship. Compared with non-Hispanic White women, racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to be diagnosed with later stage cancer and more…
    December 2021
    Cancer
  • 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 2021
    Asthma, Adolescent Health, Education
  • Chronic kidney disease is an important clinical condition beset with racial and ethnic disparities that are associated with social inequities. Many medical schools and health centres across the USA have raised concerns about the use of race — a socio-political construct that mediates the effect of structural racism — as a fixed, measurable biological variable in the assessment of kidney disease.…
    November 2021
    Chronic Disease, Racism
  • Black individuals are less likely to receive an accurate diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) than their White counterparts, possibly because diagnoses are typically made by a physician, often without reference to objective neuropsychological test data. We examined racial differences in actuarial MCI diagnoses among individuals diagnosed with MCI via semi-structured clinical interview (…
    September 2021
    Chronic Disease
  • This retrospective, secondary qualitative analysis investigates whether health system factors influence social support among Black and White breast and lung cancer survivors and racial differences in support. These data come from race- and cancer-stratified focus groups (n=6) and interviews (n=2) to inform a randomized controlled trial utilizing anti-racism and community-based participatory…
    July 2021
    Cancer
  • This video follows Nicholas St. Fleur, a reporter for STAT News, through his colon cancer screening in an attempt to destigmatize the experience. It also addresses the higher risk that Black Americans face in getting colorectal cancer and emphasizes the importance of regular medical checks. #P4HEwebinarJuly2022
    June 2021
    Cancer
  • People with chronic diseases have suffered the most during the pandemic both in rates of COVID-19 mortality and morbidity, and the health disparities that exist in those with chronic disease and poor social determinants of health are stark. In this episode, we speak to chronic disease and health equity experts on how to address this growing divide. The guests discuss how public health can reduce…
    April 2021
    Chronic Disease, COVID-19/Coronavirus
  • One in seven people living in the US are immigrants, and this number has tripled since 1970. In this narrative review we focus on immigrants to the US, a particularly vulnerable population in which many adverse social determinants of health (SDOH) often cluster. Following The Lancet Commission on Migration and Health, we define immigrants as any person who has moved away from his/her habitual…
    March 2021
    Heart disease, Social/Structural Determinants
  • February marks Black History Month and it is a time for us to celebrate and remember the people and events that have got us to where we are today. It encourages many to learn about the history they were never taught, how the world has changed, and what still needs to be done to create a world free from racism, stigma, and discrimination. (author introduction)
    February 2021
    HIV, HIV, Advocacy
  • Although the pace of gentrification has accelerated in cities across the US, little is known about the health consequences of growing up in gentrifying neighborhoods. We used New York State Medicaid claims data to track a cohort of low-income children born in the period 2006–08 for the nine years between January 2009 and December 2017. We compared the 2017 health outcomes of children who started…
    September 2019
    Asthma, Obesity, Anxiety, Depression, Physical Environment, Classism
  • Cancer patients can experience healthcare system-related challenges during the course of their treatment. Yet, little is known about how these challenges might affect the quality and completion of cancer treatment for all patients, and particularly for patients of color. Accountability for Cancer Care through Undoing Racism and Equity is a multi-component, community-based participatory research…
    December 2018
    Cancer, Racism
  • More than 5.2 million American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people live in the United States today. Spread mostly throughout the western United States and Alaska, many live mainly on or near reservations and rural communities. The AI/AN population is incredibly diverse, representing 566 federally recognized tribes. AI/AN people are disproportionately affected by diabetes. According to the…
    October 2015
    Diabetes
  • Nearly 12% of all Hispanics have diabetes, compared to 7.1% of non-Hispanic whites. The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes is not homogenous within subgroups of the Hispanic population, but instead ranges from as low as 7.6% for Cubans to as high as 13.3 and 13.8% for Puerto Rican and Mexican Americans, respectively. Disparities in some diabetes-related complications are also higher among Hispanics…
    January 2013
    Diabetes
  • A Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity is a resource for practitioners, partners, and stakeholders working to advance health equity through community health interventions. While health disparities can be addressed at multiple levels, this resource focuses on policy, systems, and environmental improvement strategies designed to improve the places where people live, learn, work, and…
    January 2013
    Chronic Disease
  • Diabetes is a devastating disease that is affected by interdependent genetic, social, economic, cultural, and historic factors. In the United States, nearly 26 million Americans are living with diabetes, and another 79 million Americans have prediabetes. This means almost one-third of the total U.S. population is affected by diabetes.  Diabetes not only affects the quality of life of…
    July 2012
    Diabetes

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