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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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- 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 2022Communication, 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 2022Policy 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 2022Community-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 2022Services & 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 2022Policy 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 2022Services & 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 2022Community-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 2022Policy 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 2022Policy and Practice
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are increasingly used in healthcare to combat unsustainable spending and produce better outcomes with limited resources, but healthcare organizations (HCOs) must take steps to ensure they are actively mitigating and avoiding algorithmic bias.While AI/ML has the potential to identify and combat disparities, it also has the potential to…April 2022Policy and Practice
- There’s a lot to fix about America’s broken systems. One of the most important is healthcare. In the ongoing fight for racial justice, we must call on those in power to center the fight for equity around health. For too long, our country’s racist infrastructure has overburdened the physical and mental health of our communities. Without access to quality healthcare, people of color will not be…April 2022Advocacy, Health Reform
- AcademyHealth President and CEO Dr. Lisa Simpson said in her opening remarks at the in-person 2022 Health Datapalooza and National Health Policy Conference “Having an equity-first approach is fundamental to how data is created, curated, used and governed.” Panels throughout the event from the opening plenary “New Data and Paradigms for Advancing Health Equity” to the closing plenary “Dismantling…April 2022Policy and Practice
- Designer Henry R. Muñoz III debuted an ‘Equity Art’ installation in New York State Capitol. This permanent installation was designed and created to tell stories of diversity in the population. The designer Muñoz has received praise from critics and leaders for his large-scale temporary and permanent art installations. The unveiling was surrounded by over 250 doctors, teachers, elected…April 2022Advocacy
- The Partners for Advancing Health Equity Collaborative hosted an interactive session, Defining Our Collective Health Equity Goals, on April 12, 2022. The P4HE Collaborative used MURAL as a tool to collect the ideas and questions of participants from academia, community organizations, policy groups, and the private sector. Through this interdisciplinary exchange of perspectives, participants…April 2022Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Sharing stories is powerful. Just recently, 60 Minutes featured how One Small Step is helping bridge political divides through face-to-face-conversations. The program grew out of StoryCorps, a former WKKF grantee that captures unscripted conversations between people across the U.S. The 60 Minutes story mentioned Albert Sykes, a Community Leadership Network Class Two fellow from Mississippi, who…April 2022COVID-19/Coronavirus, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- 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
- Medicine in America underwent a radical transformation in 1910. This was the year the Flexner Report was published, a document that evaluated the country’s medical schools and called for sweeping change to the entire medical education system. The report’s recommendations ultimately led to the closure of about 75% of U.S. medical schools, including five of the then seven Black medical colleges.For…April 2022Policy and Practice
- The fight to provide U.S. parents with paid leave, now more than 100 years old, has stalled yet again. Despite widespread public support and strong evidence of its mental and physical health benefits, the United States remains one of just six countries worldwide that do not offer paid parental leave. (author introduction)April 2022Paid Family Leave
- Physicians are ethically bound to respond to undocumented, underinsured, and uninsured patients’ health needs, even those demanding complex, expensive interventions, such as organ transplantation. A social medicine skill set of structural competency, allyship, accompaniment, and activism is required to best serve patients and communities and should be widely regarded as core competencies for all…April 2022Advocacy
- The Accountable Health Communities Model addressed a critical gap between clinical care and community services in the current health care delivery system by testing whether systematically identifying and addressing the health-related social needs of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries through screening, referral, and community navigation services will impact health care costs and reduce health…April 2022Medicaid, Services & Programs, Social Environment
- The CMS Framework for Health Equity provides a strong foundation for our work as a leader and trusted partner dedicated to advancing health equity, expanding coverage, and improving health outcomes. This includes strengthening our infrastructure for assessment, creating synergies across the health care system to drive structural change, and identifying and working together to eliminate barriers…April 2022Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Services & Programs
- For decades, Medicaid has provided virtually no-cost coverage to millions of Americans priced out of the private insurance market. Still, state legislators, policy analysts, and the popular press continue to question Medicaid’s value, particularly in relation to private coverage. Twelve states have not expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) framework despite the offer of…March 2022Medicaid
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s FY 2022-FY 2026 Strategic Plan, required by the Government Performance and Results Act Modernization Act of 2010 (Public Law 11-352), communicates the roadmap for accomplishing EPA's environmental priorities over the next four years. This Strategic Plan deepens EPA’s commitment to protecting human health and the environment for all…March 2022Policy and Practice, Environmental Injustice
- Background Some U.S. municipalities have proclaimed themselves “sanctuary cities” and/or adopted laws and policies limiting local involvement in enforcement of federal immigration policies. Several states, however, have adopted laws that preempt municipal laws and policies designed to protect immigrants. We explored the consequences of House Bill (H.B.) 318, one such preemption law in North…March 2022Services & Programs
- Partners for Advancing Health Equity and the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine hosted national cross-sector thought-leaders to introduce the collaborative's work and discuss next steps in health equity practice and policy across research, community, and funders.#P4HEwebinarMarch2022March 2022Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
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