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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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- 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
- Key facts:Almost all people affected by emergencies will experience psychological distress, which for most people will improve over time.Among people who have experienced war or other conflict in the previous 10 years, one in five (22%) will have depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.People with severe mental disorders are especially vulnerable…March 2022Mental/Behavioral Health, Policy and Practice
- In recent years, amid calls for greater social, racial, and health equity, philanthropy has rallied together with communities to dismantle deeply rooted systemic inequities that jeopardize our nation’s safety, health, and prosperity. For many foundations, the pursuit of equity has become a powerful and unifying call to action. Yet supporting communities in the sustainable advancement of equity…March 2022Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Services & Programs
- Background: Poor diet is a leading cause of premature death and thus diet and lifestyle changes are needed; yet, no consensus exists regarding diets that provide the greatest benefit. One of these diets gaining popularity around the world is a plant-based, vegan diet. Recently, Netflix documentaries What the Health (2017) and The Game Changers (2019) have attempted to improve public awareness of…March 2022Health Reform
- The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the need for delivering accurate and timely health information to the public. However, the public is being increasingly exposed to a barrage of health misinformation amplified by social media. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations coined the term “infodemic” to describe this unprecedented spread of health misinformation. A recent report by…March 2022Communication
- Medical-legal partnerships effectively mitigate some social determinants of health impacting pediatric populations, reducing hospitalizations by over a third, according to the latest data in Health Affairs emailed to journalists. Particularly, medical-legal partnerships can help children and their families ameliorate issues like potential eviction, denial of public benefits…March 2022Health Reform, Social Environment
- Objective: To explore the feasibility of a rapid, community‐engaged strategy to prioritize health equity policy options as informed by research evidence, community‐voiced needs, and public health priorities.Data Sources: Data came from residents in a midsized, demographically, and geographically diverse county over a period of 8 months in 2020 and an evidence review of the health equity policy…March 2022Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Policy & Law
- 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 2022Services & Programs, Racism
- Health equity means everyone can live the healthiest life possible. Health inequities are unnatural, unjust, and avoidable. To advance health equity, we believe it is critical to interrogate how funding, research, and community intersect to align and harmonize our efforts to create an equitable and just world. These resources compiled by the P4HE Collaborative Team are provided to support…February 2022Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- Health equity means everyone has the ability to live the healthiest life possible. Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE Collaborative) is a research learning collaborative designed to spark discussion, share learning, foster collaboration, and facilitate resource exchange for the promotion of action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies. Collaborative members can learn,…February 2022Policy and Practice
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