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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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- This report explores why resources are not reaching those who need it most and why progress is slow, uneven, and unjust. Among the reasons mentioned in the report: political priorities lead governments to favor other sectors, improve places already served, or exclude poor and marginalized groups. Furthermore, aid is not well-coordinated, is only loosely targeted according to need, and its…November 2011Access
- The first time Gayle Woodson, MD, went on an international otolaryngology outreach mission 15 years ago, she was “a little afraid to go.” The chair of otolaryngology at Southern Illinois University in Springfield was traveling to Tanzania, a country prone to violence and war, and there was no telling what kind of environment she was entering. Dr. Woodson still recalls what an impression the…December 2010Services & Programs
- The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel, approved by Member States in the Sixty-third World Health Assembly Resolution WHA63.16, is intended to be a core component of bilateral, national, regional and global responses to the challenges of health personnel migration and health systems strengthening, The objectives of the Code are: to establish and…May 2010Policy and Practice
- In the recent years, CLTS (Community lad total sanitation) has become widely promoted and implemented by several NGOs (Plan International) and sponsored by relevant donors (UNICEF) in Asia, Africa and Latin America. An initial discussion on CLTS was held in the IFRC WatSan global meeting in Dakar (June 09). At that stage, key WatSan stakeholders within the red cross / red crescent showed initial…February 2010Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Services & Programs
- The fields of health equity and human rights have different languages, perspectives, and tools for action, yet they share several foundational concepts. This paper explores connections between human rights and health equity, focusing particularly on the implications of current knowledge of how social conditions may influence health and health inequalities, the metric by which health equity is…January 2010Policy and Practice, Environment/Context
- Disabled people represent between 10% and 20% of the world’s population, depending on the definitions adopted. They are disproportionately poor, and have historically experienced diverse forms of social exclusion. The rise of the disability rights movement, the establishment of disability discrimination legislation in many countries, and the advent of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons…November 2009Postsecondary Education
- This report is a synthetic review of impact evaluations examining effectiveness of water, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) interventions in reducing childhood diarrhoea. The results challenge the notion that water quality treatment in the household and hygiene interventions are necessarily the most efficacious and sustainable interventions for promoting reduction of diarrhoea. While point-of-use…August 2009Communicable Disease
- This paper focuses on the practice of using mapping for community-driven policy advocacy activities. It describes the relationship between mapping and policy advocacy, with a focus on how mapping is being used to advocate for policy and systems changes that reduce health inequities, and highlights best practices in the use of mapping for policy advocacy drawn from communities across the country…June 2009Advocacy, Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
- Improving population health requires understanding and changing societal structures and functions, but countervailing forces sometimes undermine those changes, thus reflecting the adaptive complexity inherent in public health systems. The purpose of this paper is to propose systems thinking as a conceptual rubric for the practice of team science in public health, and transdisciplinary,…August 2008Systemic Determinants
- Immigrants have been identified as a vulnerable population, but there is heterogeneity in the degree to which they are vulnerable to inadequate health care. Here we examine the factors that affect immigrants’ vulnerability, including socioeconomic background; immigration status; limited English proficiency; federal, state, and local policies on access to publicly funded health care; residential…October 2007Health Reform, Racism
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