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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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  • For two decades, The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) Grantee Perception Report (GPR) has been an important tool to gather and act on grantee feedback. The 2023 GPR findings indicate that grantees see the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) commitment to building strong partnerships and creating a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right. (author introduction)
    May 2024
    Services & Programs
  • County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R) brings actionable data, evidence, guidance and stories to support community-led efforts to grow community power and improve health equity. The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (UWPHI) created CHR&R for communities across the nation, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This year, we focus on the connection…
    January 2024
    Services & Programs
  • The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is working alongside other organizations to build a national Culture of Health that provides everyone in America a fair and just opportunity for health and well‐being. The foundation supports several national leadership development programs to help train a generation of leaders who will use innovative approaches to advance a Culture of Health. Health…
    July 2023
    Services & Programs
  • The provision of accessible and meaningful language services to individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) is a key component of health equity. For the growing hundreds of thousands of Coloradans who struggle with language barriers, the obstacles to obtaining good medical care can be overwhelming and the cost of inadequate language services huge. Efforts to improve language access make up…
    July 2023
    Communication, Services & Programs
  • To meet the evolving health needs of society, life sciences companies need to make health equity a social and business imperative. With a companywide commitment to achieving health equity, the industry could see stronger bottom lines and better consumer engagement—in addition to better health outcomes.Advancing health equity is, of course, the right thing to do, but it can also benefit the life…
    May 2023
    Services & Programs
  • The Colorado Trust (“The Trust”) recognizes that policy change is imperative to rectify health and racial inequities that have persisted for centuries. We believe that when communities have power, they will be able to contribute to policies that address the social determinants of health and reduce health inequities, thereby improving the health and well-being of their members. The Trust’s…
    March 2023
    Services & Programs
  • The 2023 State of WIC report – supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation – centers infant feeding, economic equity, and modernization of the WIC program. It brings lessons learned in 2022 to the forefront of the conversation on reforms, innovation, and policy. This report assesses the infant formula crisis, USDA’s proposed food package rule, and WIC’s role in building a healthier future for all. (…
    February 2023
    Adolescent Health, Services & Programs
  • Within government, policy and programmatic changes are often made without engaging the people they will affect or the people currently experiencing the challenges of existing policies and programs. By comparison, software developers rely on end-user testing to refine their products and marketing and communications professionals leverage focus groups to identify effective messaging strategies.…
    January 2023
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Services & Programs
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) Grantee Perception Report (GPR) is one of RWJF’s main tools to gather, understand, and ultimately implement grantee feedback. Grantees and collaborators are vital to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) efforts to build a Culture of Health. To collectively accomplish this vision, we gather relevant information from our grantees to better…
    October 2022
    Services & Programs
  • More than 50 years since the first White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health, the U.S. has yet to end hunger and is facing an urgent, nutrition-related health crisis—the rising prevalence of diet-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and certain cancers. The consequences of food insecurity and diet-related diseases are significant, far reaching, and…
    September 2022
    Services & Programs
  • Inequities across the US health system limit underserved people’s access to affordable, high-quality care, create avoidable costs and financial waste that span society, and impact every individual’s potential to achieve health and well-being. To understand how far-reaching this issue is, Deloitte’s actuarial team developed a model to quantify the link between health care spending and health care…
    June 2022
    Health Reform, Services & Programs
  • Inequities across the US health system limit underserved people’s access to affordable, high-quality care, create avoidable costs and financial waste that span society, and impact every individual’s potential to achieve health and well-being. To understand how far-reaching this issue is, Deloitte’s actuarial team developed a model to quantify the link between health care spending and health care…
    June 2022
    Interventions, Services & Programs
  • Every year a subset of postsecondary students goes hungry and lacks stable shelter. Recent research has helped raise national awareness of basic needs insecurity on college campuses across the US. States and institutions of higher education have, until recently, been approaching the problem of student food insecurity in separate, sometimes contradictory ways. While some institutions have…
    April 2022
    Services & Programs
  • This major new report from the UCL Institute of Health Equity, produced in partnership with Legal & General, examines the evidence of how businesses affect our health, and what they can do to improve health equity. In the past, businesses have often been absent from the conversation, despite the many, profound ways in which their actions influence the social determinants of health. This…
    April 2022
    Services & Programs, Social Environment
  • Patients of color are less likely than White patients to report being the same race as their healthcare providers. The disparity could have negative implications for patient-provider relationships and patient health outcomes.The Issue: Historical medical mistreatment of Black people in America, and other people of color, has contributed to a mistrust of healthcare providers within these groups.…
    March 2022
    Services & Programs, Racism
  • Rural communities throughout the United States lack access to health care. While only 14 percent of Americans—almost 46 million people—live in rural areas, rural communities represent nearly two-thirds of primary care health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) in the country. This amounts to more than 4,100 primary care HPSAs in rural areas. A 2018 report by Pew Research Center found that the…
    February 2022
    Interventions, Services & Programs, Social/Structural Determinants, Access
  • Issue: Despite enduring racism and the need for greater racial equity, there is limited consensus among analysts, academics, and public officials on how to assess policy for its impact on racial equity. Without instructive conceptual frameworks, our ability to identify, examine, and eradicate racial inequity through health policy will be limited. Goal: To establish a conceptually nuanced,…
    January 2022
    Health Reform, Services & Programs
  • One in nine people worldwide are undernourished today. Farmers, fishers, farm workers, and others along the food chain are especially at risk for going hungry. At the same time, world agricultural systems are more productive than they’ve ever been, producing more than enough food to feed everyone. The problem isn’t lack of food, but who has the power and resources to access and control food.The…
    January 2022
    Services & Programs
  • Philanthropic partnerships are having their day in the sun. Their impact could be even greater with a clearer path to investing in collaborative funds and a shift in donor mindsets. Over the past decade, philanthropic collaboration has entered a new era of popularity and ambition. Driven by institutional and high-net-worth funders seeking greater impact by acting collectively and by fund…
    December 2021
    Services & Programs
  • The root causes of disparate health outcomes include racism and bias, structural flaws in the health care system, and deep inequities within the drivers of health (DOH). To advance health equity, organizations should look outside of the traditional health care system and address these social, economic, and environmental factors that lead to healthy or unhealthy outcomes. This research focuses on…
    November 2021
    Services & Programs, Systemic Determinants
  • The COVID-19 pandemic shined a light on the importance of universal access to affordable, high quality child care. For many racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, however, that access has been a long-standing issue. A 2017 CLASP report noted the structural racism that creates and perpetuates inequities and the fragmented U.S. child care system for young children ages birth to 5 years…
    August 2021
    Early Adulthood, Services & Programs
  • Consumer and community trust in health care providers and institutions is critical for optimal health, as trust influences willingness to get crucial medical care, preventive screenings, and mental health care.1 Trust between a patient and a health care provider is also linked to improved patient experience, health outcomes, and the patient’s perception of the care they receive.2 However, it is…
    August 2021
    Vaccine Trust, Services & Programs
  • Health systems have a lot to gain from clinician education around effective communication with non-English-speaking patients. In 2013, more than 61 million people in the US reported speaking a non-English language at home, of which approximately 4 out of 10 reported limited English proficiency (LEP); that number rose to nearly 66 million in 2019. Despite the linguistic diversity of the US, health…
    July 2021
    Communication, Services & Programs
  • Background: The North Carolina Healthy Food Small Retailer Program (NC HFSRP) was established through a policy passed by the state legislature to provide funding for small food retailers located in food deserts with the goal of increasing access to and sales of healthy foods and beverages among local residents. The purpose of this study was to qualitatively examine perceptions of the NC HFSRP…
    July 2021
    Services & Programs
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated racial, ethnic, and gender disparities that have existed since long before the current public health crisis. With declining infection rates and increasing vaccination rates, the United States seems to be on a path to recovery. But a full recovery from the health and economic fallout of the pandemic will require adequately supporting our most vulnerable…
    June 2021
    Services & Programs, Racism

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