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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 breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, panelists spoke about their work for the Austin Justice Coalition (AJC), a community organization that focuses on improving the quality of life for people who are Black, Brown, and poor. Since 2015, AJC has served as a catalyst for positive change towards economic and racial equity for Austin’s people…December 2022Policy and Practice
- In this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, Dr. Walters explained how power, love and vision are foundational elements needed when addressing historical and intergenerational trauma for health equity in the context of Native American settler colonialism.#P4HEsummit2022December 2022Policy and Practice, Environment/Context
- Community-engaged participatory action research (PAR): Rewriting the script for equitable healthcareIn this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, speakers addressed three key issues:Challenges in the health care system the come from devaluing the knowledge of parents who have children with disabilities,How a "Rewrite the Script" process can help create health equity allies to address challenges, andWhat it means to go from story-telling to story-…December 2022Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Health Reform
- In this session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, panelists discussed the role of Medicaid through a lens of health equity. Ms. McIver presented on recent achievements under the Biden Administration at the Office of Minority Health at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service in relation to health equity. Ms. Avegno, coming from a local health…December 2022Medicaid
- Introduction Gun violence plagues many communities that simultaneous experience other threats to their health and safety. Policing strategies to address illegal gun carrying may exacerbate or even contribute to gun violence. Methods We conducted a mixed-methods study to understand community perspectives on gun violence, safety, and the Baltimore Police Department (BPD)’s approaches to gun…December 2022Gun policy
- This guide aims to grow understanding of what digital equity is, why it is important, and identify best practices for ensuring equity when using digital platforms. The world’s shift to a heavy reliance on virtual platforms to collaborate, exchange information, and conduct business in recent years requires that people have access to internet and utilize various digital mediums. It is important to…December 2022Policy and Practice
- As part of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’s) strategic approach to addressing social determinants of health (SDOH), we envision a future in which all individuals, regardless of their social circumstances, have access to aligned health and social care systems that achieve equitable outcomes through high-quality, affordable, person-centered care.While identifying pathways to…November 2022Services & Programs
- Background: Foundations that support health and health care related issues are bell weathers for our nation's most pressing challenges in this area. The new National Academy of Medicine report, The Future of Nursing 2020 to 2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity has been perfectly timed to provide foundations with the additional research and evidence they need to support health equity…November 2022Services & Programs
- Association of health insurance coverage disruptions with mortality risk among US working-age adultsHaving health insurance coverage is strongly associated with better access to care and health outcomes in the US. Accumulating evidence suggests that health insurance coverage disruptions—periods without insurance—are associated with lacking a usual source of care and delaying or forgoing care due to cost. Most research has been conducted among Medicaid enrollees; little is known about health…November 2022Policy and Practice
- Misinformation is a critical threat to both health care delivery and health research. We have been confronted with that threat in very real and brutal terms over the past three years of navigating a global health pandemic. This has perhaps been most visible as unvaccinated patients—many relying on false information to make a decision that puts their lives and the lives of others at risk—have…November 2022Communication
- As US voters cast ballots in the 2022 midterm elections last week, voters rated health equity matters highly among issues of concern, according to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in August 2022. Although voters also rate health care highly among issues that concern them, it is joined by other public policies that are just as linked to health, including gun safety (62%) and education (…November 2022Policy and Practice, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- What will it take to deeply embed equity in the data, evidence, and knowledge that fuel change? In this blog post, Alonzo Plough from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation details how his 25 years of experience in public health has made it clear: it’s time for new thinking, investments, practices, and approaches in research if a healthier and more equitable future is to be possible for all.November 2022Policy and Practice
- The diversity of religion within our world's population brings challenges for health care providers and systems to deliver culturally competent medical care. Cultural competence is the ability of health providers and organizations to deliver health care services that meet the cultural, social, and religious needs of patients and their families. Culturally competent care can improve patient…November 2022Services & Programs, Social Environment
- This toolkit outlines the steps for public health programs that engage communities. It covers the process from start to finish. Its main goal is to share how to work well with communities. It also describes community partners’ role in improving public health. We use examples from two programs that gave out COVID-19 tests. This toolkit is for anyone who wants to work with communities for a public…November 2022COVID-19/Coronavirus, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- As of April 2021, nine states and the District of Columbia had enacted state-specific paid family leave (PFL) programs, offering partial wage replacement to parents after the birth of a child. The Biden Administration also proposed the development of a national solution through the American Families Plan. Despite these advances, concerns with workforce disruptions and economic costs have hindered…November 2022Mental/Behavioral Health, Paid Family Leave
- In a finding that challenges the notion that immigrants are freeloaders in the American health care system, a new study shows they are paying a lot more through health care premiums and related taxes than they actually use in care. In fact, the amount that immigrants pay in makes up for some of the amount of health care that non-immigrants use in excess of what they pay. “Some…November 2022Services & Programs
- One of the most encouraging and exciting developments in philanthropy has been the enormous investments made in health equity, a movement that is only beginning to make inroads in shifting the balance in the way some of the most underserved people get and stay healthy.The health disparities that plague our nation all came to a head as the COVID-19 pandemic shed light anew on our country’s…November 2022Policy and Practice
- The existence of health disparities is an intractable public health problem. It is unacceptable not only that infant mortality, premature death rates, and disease burden are higher for racial and ethnic minorities such as Black and American Indian communities than they are for the general population but that these disparities persist despite decades of attention from public health. This is in…November 2022Policy and Practice, Policy & Law
- This report examines the impact of the lack of a national paid family leave program on maternal health disparities in the U.S. It highlights how the absence of paid leave contributes to poor health outcomes, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities and low-income women. The analysis, based on 2020 data from the CDC’s Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), reveals that White…November 2022Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Depression, Policy and Practice
- Paid sick leave provides workers with paid time off to receive COVID-19 vaccines and to recover from potential vaccine adverse effects. We hypothesized that US cities with paid sick leave would have higher COVID-19 vaccination coverage and narrower coverage disparities than those without such policies. Using county-level vaccination data and paid sick leave data from thirty-seven large US cities…November 2022Vaccine Access and Uptake, Paid Family Leave
- Child welfare agency leaders, including tribal child welfare administrators, and other decision makers possess substantial power and influence that can be leveraged toward advancing equity in research and evaluation. National momentum is growing to identify and address the disproportionality and disparities that diverse communities along the child welfare continuum experience. These…November 2022Policy and Practice
- Applying specific strategies throughout an organization’s continuous quality improvement (CQI) process can provide the focused, proactive, and sustained attention needed to identify and address racial and ethnic disparities in child welfare outcomes. This resource offers action steps that can be applied within each of the core functions of the CQI process as well as a set of cross-cutting…November 2022Policy and Practice
- Are you working to promote economic mobility for children and families? Are you curious about how cross-sector partnership can address systemic challenges? Want to learn more about how housing and education can come together to advance mobility from poverty? This toolkit is intended as a resource for individuals and organizations seeking to build and advance cross-sector partnerships to…November 2022Services & Programs, Social/Structural Determinants
- Research suggests that increasing drug prices affects some patients’ ability to adhere to their medication regimen. To help with the affordability of prescription drugs, lawmakers have considered state pharmaceutical assistance programs, known as SPAPs. (author abstract) #P4HEwebinarNovember2022October 2022Services & Programs
- As an Occupational Medicine physician, my patients describe their work to me every day. Through these descriptions, I learn a lot about their health and well-being. Managing health in the work environment is important to overall health; yet work information is not captured in a standardized way in most medical encounters. Timely interventions to address hazardous work exposures are an actionable…October 2022Services & Programs
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