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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 talk, Dr. Costanza-Chock presents an overview of their new book, Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, published by the MIT Press in 2020. The book is an exploration of how we might re-imagine design to be led by marginalized communities as a tool to help dismantle structural inequality, advance collective liberation, and support ecological survival. More…March 2023Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions, 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
- In the early 1900s, African Americans died at higher rates, got sick more often, and had worse health outcomes for almost all diseases when compared to whites. This disparity was due to a combination of racism, discrimination, and segregation. Most blacks could only afford to live in unhealthy conditions and had little or no access to medical professionals. Problematically, poor black health led…December 2020Interventions, Racism
- In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health.Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and…January 2017Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions, Services & Programs, Social/Structural Determinants
- The World Health Organization (WHO) defines social determinants of health as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life” (WHO, 2016a). These forces and systems include economic policies, development agendas, cultural and social norms, social policies, and political systems. Health inequities, “…October 2016Interventions, Social/Structural Determinants
- The private sector as a catalyst for health equity and a vibrant economy: Proceedings of a workshop.Initiatives based in communities can have widespread effects. Not only can they transform the communities in which they are located, but they can act as seedbeds for similar programs elsewhere. Three presenters at the workshop described such initiatives and their potential to reduce health disparities. (author description) #P4HEwebinarNovember2023August 2016Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
- On completion of this chapter, the health promotion student and practitioner will be able to: Define and discuss the concepts of health education, health promotion, and disease prevention as these relate to working with multicultural population groups. Define and discuss at least five common terms associated with working with diverse population groups, including the terms culture, ethnicity,…June 2015Interventions
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