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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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  • This webinar explored how dominant narratives perpetuate harm and how these narratives can be challenged and disrupted, moving towards equity-focused and person-first alternatives.Learning Objectives1. Explain how social determinants of health uniquely impact marginalized communities, public health, and health equity2. Distinguish both short-term and long-term implications on our health care and…
    June 2022
    Communication, Social/Structural Determinants
  • Leaders of nonprofit social service organizations are seeing benefits from cross-sector collaborations with government partners as they work to reduce persistent health inequities in their communities. These preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health are caused by social, economic, and environmental factors. Nationwide…
    June 2022
    Services & Programs
  • Medical mistrust is a major barrier to achieving health equity. Before we can effectively discuss health equity, we should talk about medical mistrust. Patient trust in healthcare was eroding before the pandemic. Between the 1960s and 2010s, confidence in healthcare leaders dropped by 53 percent, from 73 percent of adults to 34 percent. Yet, achieving equitable healthcare depends on turning…
    June 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • This three-part series highlights learnings from Lead Local: Community-Driven Change and the Power of Collective Action, a collaborative effort funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that convened well-respected local organizations and leaders in the fields of community organizing, advocacy, and research to examine the relationship between health and power building. Building on the National…
    June 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Systemic Determinants
  • This three-part series highlights learnings from Lead Local: Community-Driven Change and the Power of Collective Action, a collaborative effort funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that convened well-respected local organizations and leaders in the fields of community organizing, advocacy, and research to examine the relationship between health and power building. Building on the National…
    June 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Systemic Determinants
  • This three-part series highlights learnings from Lead Local: Community-Driven Change and the Power of Collective Action, a collaborative effort funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that convened well-respected local organizations and leaders in the fields of community organizing, advocacy, and research to examine the relationship between health and power building. Building on the National…
    June 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Systemic Determinants
  • Too often, foundations get in the way of nonprofits doing the work they know best. This can slow down progress, perpetuate inequities, and obstruct nonprofit growth and innovation. Trust-based philanthropy reimagines that dynamic, building a world in which funders authentically partner with grantees in a spirit of service.How to Use this Guide: While this guide offers insights and practical…
    June 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • Background: A strengths-based lens is essential for the pursuit of health equity among Indigenous populations. However, health professionals are often taught and supported in practice via deficit-based approaches that perpetuate inequity for Indigenous peoples. Deficit narratives in healthcare and health education are reproduced through practices and policies that ignore Indigenous strengths,…
    June 2022
    Interventions
  • Person-centered contraceptive access benefits reproductive autonomy, sexual wellbeing, menstrual regulation, and other preventive health. However, contraceptive access varies by social and geographic position, with policies either perpetuating or alleviating health inequities. We describe geographic and time-trend variation in an index from fewer (less expansive) to greater (more expansive)…
    June 2022
    Contraceptive Use/Access, Policy and Practice
  • Illinois has been a national leader in adopting progressive reproductive health policies that have expanded Medicaid coverage, reduced Medicaid abortion coverage restrictions, and protected minors’ rights to many sexual and reproductive health services. Although these strides are significant, inequality in contraceptive access persists. Nearly one third of contraceptive users lack coverage for…
    June 2022
    Contraceptive Use/Access, Policy and Practice
  • Key FindingsThe number of studies focusing on evaluated substance use services (treatment or harm reduction) for racialized communities were limited; the majority of the literature focused on documenting inequities, discussing barriers and facilitators in accessing services, or offered general recommendations without action.Findings pointed to a few imbalances in the literature: a focus on…
    June 2022
    Substance Use and Misuse, Services & Programs
  • This chapter explores the gradient of public health engagement and relationships with politics and political science. On one hand, public health values evidence-based decision-making grounded in orthodox hierarchies of evidence, while on the other, by nature of the issues, there are challenges to obtaining this data and to omitting values and contextual considerations. Additionally, public health…
    May 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • This Webinar included a discussion of pregnancy-related mortality through the lens of abortion access and other policy decisions like Medicaid expansion. This included discussions of community- and culturally- centered birthing work and the need for cross-sector collaboration in this space.#P4HEwebinarMay2022 
    May 2022
    Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Policy and Practice
  • This study explored the role of social activism in the association of exposure to media coverage of police brutality and protests with perceptions of mental health. Data for this study came from a sample of African Americans (N = 304) who responded to an online survey. Perceptions of mental health were assessed using a single item developed by the research team. Exposure to police brutality and…
    May 2022
    Structural Violence, Mental/Behavioral Health, Advocacy
  • The stark disparities that were exposed during the COVID-19 crisis necessitated that both individuals and organizations commit to eliminating health inequities. As we emerge from the pandemic, communities, providers, and other members of the health care ecosystem are universally embracing these commitments. Even at Third Horizon Strategies, we are prioritizing health equity through the launch of…
    May 2022
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Advocacy
  • For health system leaders who have been thinking or talking about how to create health equity in their organizations, an AMA toolkit outlines five concrete steps to help turn words into actions. The AMA STEPS Forward™ toolkit was developed in partnership with strategic consulting firm HealthBegins to help physicians and other health professionals in mid-sized and large health care delivery…
    May 2022
    Health Reform
  • Achieving Health Equity requires developing a shared language that allows people to understand diversity in various contexts. For instance, shared language allows us to discuss diversity issues concerning gender identity, just as much as it allows us to discuss diversity issues concerning citizenship, race, or sexual attraction. This article sets out five key terms that form the foundation of a…
    May 2022
    Communication, Services & Programs
  • Childhood adversity and its structural causes drive lifelong and intergenerational inequities in health and well-being. Health care systems increasingly understand the influence of childhood adversity on health outcomes but cannot treat these deep and complex issues alone. Cross-sector partnerships, which integrate health care, food support, legal, housing, and financial services among others,…
    May 2022
    Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
  • COVID-19 has focused the public’s attention on the racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes, unequal access to health care, and some communities’ lack of trust and participation in medical research. These problems have been decades, if not centuries, in the making, and they cannot be quickly or easily solved. However, attention is a critical prerequisite to action, and FasterCures…
    May 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • The Future of Nursing 2020–2030 report identifies coalitions as a driving force for advancing health equity. Five coalitions provided insight into their accomplishments, lessons learned, and role in advancing health equity. The exemplar coalitions included Latinx Advocacy Team and Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19, Black Coalition Against COVID, Camden Coalition, National Coalition of Ethnic…
    April 2022
    Services & Programs
  • Neighborhood Exchange Series event entitled Arc of Recovery: COVID Response from Crisis Management to Long-Term Investment on April 28, 2022. In continuing the story of COVID response, this conversation discusses the conclusion of immediate crisis responses and how funders are thinking about transitioning this support to investments in resilient, equitable communities better able to withstand the…
    April 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • 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
  • 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 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Environment/Context
  • Within the discipline of public health, it is commonly understood that health outcomes are influenced by more than genetics and behavior. Many health problems can be firmly linked to a political determinant that created and is perpetuating health inequities in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these inequities, causing disproportionate outcomes, particularly for vulnerable…
    April 2022
    Policy and Practice, Aging and Life Course
  • Global crises of the past two years have yielded at least one silver lining for nonprofits: They have accelerated a movement among grantmakers to match the duration and flexibility of their funding to the arc and demands of change. Such a shift couldn’t come at a more important time for organizations addressing acute threats to climate, health, our social fabric, and world democracy.The top…
    April 2022
    Policy and Practice

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