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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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- Substance use and mental illness have significant impacts on people, families, communities, and societies. Previous National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) reports have cited differences in substance use, mental illness, and the receipt of substance use and mental health treatment among people in different racial or ethnic groups.1,2 As part of the Strategic Plan: Fiscal Year 2023-2026 of…July 2024Substance Use and Misuse
- A CDC Vital Signs report, using drug overdose data from the State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System (SUDORS), found concerning trends and widening disparities between different population groups. From 2019 to 2020, overdose deaths increased 44% for Black people and 39% for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people. In addition, the percentage receiving treatment was lowest for…May 2024Substance Use and Misuse
- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions increased preconception and postpartum insurance coverage among low-income birthing people, leading to greater use of outpatient care. In this study we evaluated whether the expansions affected rates of postpartum hospitalization. Our analyses took advantage of underused longitudinal hospital data from the period 2010–17 to examine…January 2023Adverse Birth Outcomes, Medicaid
- Introduction: States' approaches to addressing prenatal substance use are widely heterogeneous, ranging from supportive policies that enhance access to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment to punitive policies that criminalize prenatal substance use. We studied the effect of these prenatal substance use policies (PSUPs) on medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, including…September 2022Maternal/Child Health, Substance Use and Misuse
- Since its founding in 2007 at the Yale School of Public Health, the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) has worked to identify solutions to health challenges such as diabetes, asthma, and heart and lung diseases through community-based research and projects focusing on social, environmental, and behavioral risk factors. In the fall of 2016, The Community Alliance for Research…July 2022Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- Drug overdose data show troubling trends and widening disparities between different population groups. In just one year, overdose death rates (number of drug overdose deaths per 100,000 people) increased 44% for Black people and 39% for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people. Most people who died by overdose had no evidence of substance use treatment before their deaths. In fact, a…July 2022Substance Use and Misuse
- Low-wage workers in the US were the most likely to report missing work due to COVID-19 but the least likely to have access to paid sick days or family leave. As many required time off from work to quarantine, recover from serious symptoms, or to care for others, workers were sometimes forced to forgo wages and left without enough food to eat. Pre-pandemic, 24 percent of US workers did not…October 2021COVID-19/Coronavirus, Policy and Practice
- This blog post covers a Dutch participatory research project called The Workspace, a study which brought policymakers together with unemployed people to share perspectives on municipal initiatives to encourage unemployed people's participation in society. The article outlines how The Workspace encouraged dialogue and furthered the goals of action participatory research.October 2020Structural Violence, Systemic Determinants
- Poverty has consistently been linked to poor mental health and risky health behaviors, yet few studies evaluate the effectiveness of programs and policies to address these outcomes by targeting poverty itself. We test the hypothesis that the earned income tax credit (EITC)—the largest U.S. poverty alleviation program—improves short-term mental health and health behaviors in the months immediately…October 2020Mental/Behavioral Health
- As COVID-19-related quarantines were being implemented across America, homelessness researchers were estimating the immediate needs of people experiencing homelessness. They concluded that $11.5 billion is necessary for 400,000 new shelter beds needed to accommodate everyone who is unsheltered and to ensure appropriate social distancing, andthe creation of quarantine locations for the sick and…March 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus, Social/Structural Determinants
- The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends permanent supportive housing with Housing First (Housing First programs) to promote health equity for people who are experiencing homelessness and have a disabling condition. Evidence shows Housing First programs decrease homelessness, increase housing stability, and improve quality of life for homeless persons living…June 2019HIV, Healthy Housing
- 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 2013Chronic Disease
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