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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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  • California continues its focus on health equity and strives to provide the highest possible standard of health for all Californians. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) uses health equity data to improve the st​ate's response and to track trends over time. Collecting and reporting health equity data helps to identify those at greatest risk and to provide special attention to those…
    March 2024
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Vaccines
  • Across the nation, federal, state and county government agencies are moving Covid-19 management and treatment into the U.S. healthcare system as part of their transition from pandemic response to recovery. The national Covid-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) will end in 2023, and so will key drivers of more equitable outcomes that were enabled by the PHE and other emergency measures, such as free…
    January 2024
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Vaccines
  • States across the country have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a flood of policy changes, from physical distancing and mask requirements to expansions of social safety net programs and eviction freezes. The COVID-19 US State Policy (CUSP) database is a publicly available dataset that is free for all users to download. CUSP is designed to be a tool for researchers, policymakers, the media…
    January 2024
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Policy & Law
  • This report takes a holistic view of perinatal health and, as people progress through different stages of development, puts it in context as a developmental precursor to later indicators of wellness, including birth outcomes, postpartum wellness, and subsequent child development. The five domains of social determinants of health and well-being serve as the framework for this report:…
    July 2022
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Maternal/Child Health, Social/Structural Determinants
  • This report details COVID GAP's strategy for shifting the world’s response to the pandemic from emergency crisis management to a sustainable control strategy.
    March 2022
    COVID-19/Coronavirus
  • The United States has the worst maternal health outcomes among high-income nations – despite spending $111 billion yearly on maternal and infant care. People of color, particularly Black and Indigenous birthing people† and parents, bear the brunt of this fundamental failing. Today, there is more recognition than ever of the influence of structural forces on maternal and infant health and a…
    December 2021
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Advocacy
  • Immunization inequity contributes to negative health outcomes for both individuals and the population as a whole. Equitable immunization systems not only prevent potentially devastating vaccine-preventable illnesses, but also generate health more broadly by attracting people, including marginalized populations, into healthcare to improve other health inequalities. While longstanding inequities in…
    June 2021
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Vaccine Access and Uptake, Social/Structural Determinants
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has made explicit the health disparities that have long existed worldwide, exposing their roots in systems of exclusion and power. Since the novel coronavirus first hit cities across the globe, we have seen drastically different local and national responses, levels of risk and vulnerability, and emergent supports—in response to both the health crisis and the accompanying…
    April 2021
    COVID-19/Coronavirus
  • Since the beginning of the pandemic, workers in essential industries needing to work in person continued going to work and keeping the nation running while risking exposure to the novel coronavirus. And as states reopened, many nonessential workers returned to work, risking exposure to the virus to allow people to shop in stores, eat in restaurants, and obtain personal services. We find that…
    December 2020
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Vaccines
  • UNC Health rapidly launched a mobile Covid testing unit to underserved community sites in May 2020 to provide targeted testing of uninsured Black and Latinx community members. We engaged with existing Black and Latinx community leaders to co-develop the program, converting a mobile vascular screening unit into a testing site and resource center for patients at risk. In the first three months, 2,…
    October 2020
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • In 2020 Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (FM3) surveyed 813 vulnerable Californians, revealing widespread concern about the coronavirus, with many fearing the worst is yet to come. While economic impacts like job loss and wage cuts are significant, infection remained the primary anxiety. Respondents recognized that low-income communities and people of color are disproportionately…
    May 2020
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Social/Structural Determinants
  • 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 2020
    COVID-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 2019
    HIV, Healthy Housing
  • 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 2009
    Communicable Disease

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