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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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- Inam Sakinah and her classmates will forever be known as the students who started medical school during the 2020 covid-19 pandemic.All of them had prepared for this step for years, taking hours of hard science classes in college, studying for the medical school admissions test and often volunteering, working or even getting master’s or other advanced degrees before starting on the long path to…April 2021Advocacy, Interventions
- For decades, the tobacco industry has targeted Black Americans, especially youth, with marketing for menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products like flavored cigars. The tobacco industry’s predatory marketing has had a devastating impact on Black health and lives. Tobacco use is the number one cause of preventable death among Black Americans, claiming 45,000 Black lives each year. Black…February 2021Advocacy
- Philanthropic investments in health equity are growing in response to increased national attention. In an effort to document and learn from this moment, GIH surveyed its Funding Partners at the end of 2020 to identify whether and how foundations altered their health equity programming and pivoted internally to foster more diverse and inclusive environments. The survey results—summarized in an…February 2021Policy and Practice, Services & Programs
- The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) serves a Veteran population that is diverse. Equitable access to high-quality care for all Veterans is a major tenet of the VA healthcare mission. The Office of Health Equity (OHE) champions the elimination of health disparities and achieving health equity for all Veterans. HEALTH DISPARITIES Smoking is a significant health problem for Veterans and remains…January 2021Environment/Context
- This data and its corresponding visualizations illustrate the average age that a newborn would likely live to, if he/she were affected by the sex- and age-specific death rates linked to the time of his/her birth, for a specific year and country/territory/geographic area. This is an important measurement since life expectancy at birth points to a population's overall mortality level.December 2020Maternal/Child Health, Aging and Life Course
- This guide offers a set of guideposts to support city staff in designing and implementing inclusive processes for shared analysis based on the equity data provided in the Greenlink Equity Map (GEM) (and potentially additional data as well) through collaboration with community partners. Engaging with impacted communities is key to 1) understanding the stories behind the data patterns the maps…September 2020Climate Change
- The Office of Health Equity's Health Equity Policy & Planning (HEPP) Unit addresses complex issues that require input and collaboration across multiple agencies and departments, most of which are outside of the health sector. Health in All Policies works with the California Strategic Growth Council and 22 other state agencies and departments to advance policy and programs that support health…August 2020
- The Black Directors Health Equity Agenda is an organization that advances health equity for Black Americans by fighting for policy change, encouraging innovative thinking and business models, and more. This website offers more information about this organization and the actions that it takes in advancing health equity. #P4HEwebinarMay2023January 2020Policy and Practice
- In a recent issue of this Journal, Politzer, Shmueli, and Avni estimate the economic costs of health disparities due to socioeconomic status (SES) in Israel (Politzer et al., Isr J Health Policy Res 8: 46, 2019). Using three measures of SES, the socioeconomic ranking of localities, individual income, and individual education, Politzer and colleagues estimate welfare loss due to higher mortality,…May 2019Systemic Determinants
- The task force brings together the leading health equity and system transformation thought leaders in the nation with national and state-level leaders representing diverse communities dealing with health inequities. We are committed to working together, and with other stakeholders and decision-makers, to ensure that health system transformation maximizes opportunities for good health for those…December 2018Advocacy, Health Reform, Social/Structural Determinants
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