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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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- In this session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, panelists discussed the role of Medicaid through a lens of health equity. Ms. McIver presented on recent achievements under the Biden Administration at the Office of Minority Health at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service in relation to health equity. Ms. Avegno, coming from a local health department…December 2022Medicaid
- The diversity of religion within our world's population brings challenges for health care providers and systems to deliver culturally competent medical care. Cultural competence is the ability of health providers and organizations to deliver health care services that meet the cultural, social, and religious needs of patients and their families. Culturally competent care can improve patient…November 2022Services & Programs, Social Environment
- On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, President Biden hosted the first White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health in over 50 years to bring Americans together to achieve a bold goal: End hunger and increase healthy eating and physical activity by 2030, so that fewer Americans experience diet-related diseases like diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. The Administration also released a…September 2022Services & Programs
- This chapter explores the gradient of public health engagement and relationships with politics and political science. On one hand, public health values evidence-based decision-making grounded in orthodox hierarchies of evidence, while on the other, by nature of the issues, there are challenges to obtaining this data and to omitting values and contextual considerations. Additionally, public health…May 2022Policy and Practice
- This infographic portrays how pregnancy-related mortality ratios compare based on race/ethnicity, as well as how age and education level affect health inequities. #P4HEwebinarMay2022April 2022Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- To achieve the profound socio-economic, environmental and political changes we so desperately need, many of our societal systems will require intensive re-visioning. Key professions such as medicine, architecture/design, and the law (among many others) will need to embrace far more socially engaged worldviews and on-the-ground practices. In this dynamic dialogue, two leading figures who have been…January 2022Advocacy, Social/Structural Determinants
- The Framework has five pillars, and they guide local communities in implementing TRHT activities. The first two pillars — (1) Narrative Change and (2) Racial Healing & Relationship Building represent the people-work that is necessary in order to fuel the transformation. The other three pillars — (3) Separation; (4) the Law; and (5) the Economy — represent the areas in which systemic change…January 2022Interventions
- Structural racism refers to the public and private policies, institutional practices, norms, and cultural representations that inherently create unequal freedom, opportunity, value, resources, advantage, restrictions, constraints, or disadvantage for individuals and populations according to their race and ethnicity both across the life course and between generations. Developing a research agenda…January 2022Policy and Practice, Racism
- This tool describes key elements of lived experience, its features in the context of health and human services, and why engaging people with lived experience is essential to advancing equity. (author introduction)#P4HEwebinarJune2023January 2022Policy and Practice
- The story of our nation is one of justice and freedom, but the unspoken truth is too many people are shut out of equal opportunities because of the color of their skin. Civil Rights laws and advocacy movements have brought racial inequities to light, but have not solved urgent problems caused by structural racism. This inequity has led to wide-scale poorer health outcomes and shorter life spans.…January 2022Racism
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