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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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- Key facts:Human rights are universal rights of all human beings, regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.The right to health and other health-related human rights are legally binding commitments enshrined in international human rights instruments. WHO’s Constitution also recognizes the right to…December 2023Policy and Practice, Systemic Determinants
- Children and teens in the US experience staggeringly high rates of gun deaths and injuries. They are also harmed when a friend or family member is killed with a gun, when someone they know is shot, and when they witness and hear gunshots. Gun homicides, non-fatal shootings, and exposure to gun violence stunt lives and, because of their disproportionate impact, reflect and intensify this country’s…February 2023Gun Violence/Firearms, Structural Violence, Environment/Context
- Looking Around The Corner: (Re)Imagining Power For A Healthy and Just California is a forward-looking project to envision what we can collectively achieve if we invest in movements. Distilled from the wisdom of the field, the report offers a blueprint for where to invest over the next 10 years as activists, organizations, and funders collectively steer towards creating a different future.…January 2023Advocacy, Systemic Determinants
- Tobacco use remains the nation’s leading cause of preventable premature death, including death from cancer, and progress in reducing tobacco use and related disease and death has not been equally distributed across population groups. This monograph examines the current evidence surrounding tobacco-related health disparities (TRHD) across the tobacco use continuum—initiation, secondhand smoke…October 2022Environment/Context
- In September 2022, the Convergence Partnership released the first-ever report to focus exclusively on the funding of narrative change, Funding Narrative Change, An Assessment and Framework. The new report was written by two leading experts in the field, Rinku Sen, executive director of Narrative Initiative, and Mik Moore, principal and founder of Moore + Associates. Narrative change has become a…September 2022Social/Structural Determinants, Social Environment
- The growing centering of equity in health has elevated a conversation about how those interests should translate within the systems and sectors that influence health. In particular, the public health data system has been relatively limited in capturing the drivers and consequences of health inequity as well as the varying dimensions of equity. This article examines what it means to use equity as…September 2022Health Reform, Environment/Context
- Evidence shows that social determinants of health (SDOH) are key drivers of diabetes outcomes and disparities in diabetes care. Targeting SDOH at the individual, organizational, and policy levels is an essential step in improving health equity for individuals living with diabetes. In addition, there is increasing recognition of the need to build collaboration across the health care system and…August 2022Diabetes, Social Environment
- In response to our blog post describing the levels at which we can work to advance health equity, our colleagues, partners, and friends asked us, how does this framework translate into action? That is, what does implementing activities and progress at these levels look like in practice? Although many conceptual models depict where and how to approach work in pursuit of health equity, we…May 2022Health Reform, Social Environment, Systemic Determinants
- For decades, these dysfunctional data-gathering practices have neglected the deep-seated health disparities and racial injustices driving disproportionate chronic illness and disease among marginalized communities. And when the pandemic struck, inconsistent and flawed nationwide data undercut efforts to collect timely, actionable information to improve access to vaccines, testing, and…April 2022Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Environment/Context
- This project is funded under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s program, Community Research for Health Equity (CRHE), a community-led research program that seeks to elevate community voices and make the priorities of communities the primary goal of local health system transformation efforts. The goal of this community-based participatory action research study is to expose racist, ableist, and…April 2022Systemic Determinants, Racism
- The transition from school to postsecondary life can be difficult. Research shows that youth with disabilities are less likely than their nondisabled peers to successfully make this transition. The disparities in outcomes are larger for youth with disabilities who are from racial and ethnic minority groups. Minority youth are also more likely to be disconnected. This Minority Youth and…April 2022Early Childhood Education, Social Environment
- 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 2022Services & Programs, Social Environment
- The convergence of three major issues could make long-standing health inequities even more severe. Two years after the pandemic emerged, COVID-19 and global migration emergencies continue to affect society. At the same time, the health of the planet is deteriorating, and trust in our most established institutions is eroding. These developments have disproportionately affected people who have been…April 2022Social/Structural Determinants, Systemic Determinants, Sustainable Development
- Asian, Black, Indigenous, and Latino Americans die earlier, have higher infant mortality rates, and suffer more chronic conditions and disabilities than most white Americans. These health inequities are due in part to systemic racism and the social determinants of health (SDOH). Racial equity tools enable decisionmakers to identify how policies and programs can disproportionately harm racial and…March 2022Systemic Determinants
- The $4 trillion municipal bond market is one of the largest pools of private investment capital flowing into America's states and localities, shaping the built environment in communities across the country and directly impacting health and equity. Through a $4 million grant, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is seeking to identify the factors in a municipal bond issuance that can create progress…January 2022Systemic Determinants
- 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 2021Services & Programs, Systemic Determinants
- Climate change affects all Americans—regardless of socioeconomic status—and many impacts are projected to worsen. But individuals will not equally experience these changes. This report improves our understanding of the degree to which four socially vulnerable populations— defined based on income, educational attainment, race and ethnicity, and age (Table 1)—may be more exposed to the highest…September 2021Climate Change
- The California Endowment (TCE) launched its Community/Stakeholder Engagement (C/SE) process in the fall of 2016 as part of a mid-point review of Building Healthy Communities (BHC). The aim was to learn from a wide range of people involved in or knowledgeable about BHC – including adult and youth residents in BHC sites, other community partners, state advocates and policymakers, evaluators and…September 2021Advocacy, Interventions, Physical Environment, Social Environment
- Mounting real-world evidence shows universal screening for health-related social needs in routine clinical care offers a standardized way for health care providers to identify needs, tailor care, and help patients resolve these needs with referrals to community resources. Yet screening for patients’ social needs can seem like a daunting task for clinical providers. One strategy for providers is…June 2021Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Social Environment
- Health equity is the fair and just opportunity for every individual to achieve their full potential in all aspects of health and well-being. The combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and last summer’s demonstrations over social injustice helped to shed critical light on health inequities. Our recent paper on health equity describes the impact systemic racism has on health and actions that leaders…May 2021Services & Programs, Systemic Determinants
- On April 20, 2021, CDC launched an agency-wide health equity science and intervention strategy to holistically reimagine how the agency approaches health equity. CDC commits to: Cultivate comprehensive health equity science, Optimize interventions, Reinforce and expand robust partnerships, and Enhance capacity and workforce engagement (also known as CORE commitments). CDC Director, Dr. Rochelle…April 2021Interventions, Services & Programs, Social/Structural Determinants, Systemic Determinants
- Fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — lie at the heart of the crises we face, including public health, racial injustice, and climate change. This report synthesizes existing research and provides new analysis that finds that the fossil fuel industry contributes to public health harms that kill hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. each year and disproportionately…April 2021Interventions, Environment/Context, Climate Change, Environmental Injustice, Racism
- Cross-sector collaboration and systems alignment can address social determinants of health, improve family well-being, and create a more equitable society. In attempts to align Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and Medicaid to promote health through its trauma-informed program, The Building Wealth and Health Network (The Network) encountered three major challenges to meeting those…March 2021Medicaid, Social Environment, Systemic Determinants
- Everyone has their own way of coping with pain and finding hope in times of distress. When walking through a health crisis, many turn to spirituality for comfort, and many people find their spiritual center in religion. The World Religion Database counts 18 major religious categories around the world. Scholars estimate that about 2,400 religions exist in total. Spirituality and healthcare,…December 2020Systemic Determinants
- In June 2020, The California Endowment (TCE) issued a Statement on Race and Racism and identified key action steps to advance racial justice in our role as an active partner and investor in Black communities and communities of color. This brief reports on our specific commitment to improved tracking, reporting, and transparency of TCE funding to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color)-led…October 2020Physical Environment, Social Environment
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