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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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  • Background: Simple visualizations in health research data, such as scatter plots, heat maps, and bar charts, typically present relationships between 2 variables. Interactive visualization methods allow for multiple related facets such as numerous risk factors to be studied simultaneously, leading to data insights through exploring trends and patterns from complex big health care data. The…
    February 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • In 2016 and 2017, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene established Neighborhood Health Action Centers (Action Centers) in disinvested communities of color as part of a place-based model to advance health equity. This model includes co-located partners, a referral and linkage system, and community space and programming. In 2018, we surveyed visitors to the East Harlem Action…
    February 2022
    Services & Programs
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has faced backlash after recommending that clinicians use race and ethnicity, among other factors, to guide allocation and use of novel monoclonal antibodies for COVID-19 treatment. These guidelines are similar to recommendations from health departments in states like New York, Utah, and Minnesota to prioritize high-risk individuals who are elderly, pregnant…
    February 2022
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Policy and Practice, Racism
  • Rural communities throughout the United States lack access to health care. While only 14 percent of Americans—almost 46 million people—live in rural areas, rural communities represent nearly two-thirds of primary care health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) in the country. This amounts to more than 4,100 primary care HPSAs in rural areas. A 2018 report by Pew Research Center found that the…
    February 2022
    Interventions, Services & Programs, Social/Structural Determinants, Access
  • The study of social inequality and stratification (e.g., ethnoracial and gender) has long been at the core of sociology and the social sciences. In this article, I argue that certain tendencies have become entrenched in our dominant paradigm that leave many researchers pursuing coarse-grained analyses of how difference relates to inequality. Centrally, despite the importance of categories and…
    February 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • Theoretical research suggests that racialized felony disenfranchisement—a form of structural racism—is likely to undermine the health of Black people, yet empirical studies on the topic are scant. We used administrative data on disproportionate felony disenfranchisement of Black residents across US states, linked to geocoded individual-level health data from the 2016 Health and Retirement Study,…
    February 2022
    Policy and Practice, Racism
  • Structural racism toward American Indians and Alaska Natives is found in nearly every policy regarding and action taken toward that population since non-Natives made first contact with the Indigenous peoples of the United States. Generations of American Indians and Alaska Natives have suffered from policies that called for their genocide as well as policies intended to acculturate and dominate…
    February 2022
    Policy & Law, Social/Structural Determinants, Historical Trauma, Systemic Determinants, Racism
  • Binge watching, Tik Tok challenges and the bittersweet torment of Wordle—these days we live in a world of constant distractions. Finding a way to get someone’s attention, and keep it, can seem like an impossible feat. So how can organizations break through the noise to promote public health? As part of the Partnering for Vaccine Equity program, the CDC Foundation and the Urban Institute…
    February 2022
    Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Communication, Social/Structural Determinants
  • Few studies have illustrated how racism influences Black women’s use of reproductive health care services. This article presents findings of a collaborative study conducted by a research team and a reproductive justice organization to understand Black women’s concerns with sexual and reproductive health services. The qualitative research was conducted with Black women living in Georgia and North…
    February 2022
    Reproductive/Sexual Health, Policy and Practice, Racism
  • Recent events have amplified the debilitating effects of systemic racism on the health of the United States. In an effort to improve population health and dismantle more than 400 years of racial injustice, retrospective examinations of policies, practices, and events that have sustained and continue to undergird racial hierarchy are necessary. In this historical review we feature Washington, D.C…
    February 2022
    Policy and Practice, Racism
  • Objective: This initiative will seek to:Understand the underlying mechanisms of health-related misinformation and disinformation.Test interventions to address and mitigate the impact of health-related misinformation and disinformation on health disparities and the populations that experience health disparities.Description of Initiative: The projects supported by this initiative seek to stimulate…
    February 2022
    Communication
  • Introduction: Although growing evidence links residential evictions to health, little work has examined connections between eviction and healthcare utilization or access. In this study, eviction records are linked to Medicaid claims to estimate short-term associations between eviction and healthcare utilization, as well as Medicaid disenrollment. Methods: New York City eviction records from…
    February 2022
    Medicaid
  • Racism is not always conscious, explicit, or readily visible—often it is systemic and structural. Systemic and structural racism are forms of racism that are pervasively and deeply embedded in systems, laws, written or unwritten policies, and entrenched practices and beliefs that produce, condone, and perpetuate widespread unfair treatment and oppression of people of color, with adverse health…
    February 2022
    Policy and Practice, Systemic Determinants, Racism
  • The Colorado Trust’s (The Trust) Community Partnerships for Health Equity (CPHE) strategy is a largescale systems and community change effort focused on creating opportunities for people who have historically been excluded and who are directly impacted by injustice, to develop and implement plans and take actions that will lead to healthier more equitable communities across Colorado.1 A range of…
    February 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated and amplified the harsh reality of health inequities experienced by racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States. Members of these groups have disproportionately been infected and died from COVID-19, yet they still lack equitable access to treatment and vaccines. Lack of equitable access to high-quality health care is in large part a result of…
    February 2022
    Vaccine Access and Uptake, Health Reform, Racism
  • To achieve the profound socio-economic, environmental and political changes we so desperately need, many of our societal systems will require intensive re-visioning. Key professions such as medicine, architecture/design, and the law (among many others) will need to embrace far more socially engaged worldviews and on-the-ground practices. In this dynamic dialogue, two leading figures who have been…
    January 2022
    Advocacy, Social/Structural Determinants
  • The Federal Plan for Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience (Federal Plan for ELTRR) lays out an approach for federal agencies to cooperatively strengthen the vital conditions necessary for improving individual and community resilience and well-being nationwide.   While the Federal Plan for ELTRR is presented on health.gov, it is inclusive of health and non-health sectors and was…
    January 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • Issue: Despite enduring racism and the need for greater racial equity, there is limited consensus among analysts, academics, and public officials on how to assess policy for its impact on racial equity. Without instructive conceptual frameworks, our ability to identify, examine, and eradicate racial inequity through health policy will be limited. Goal: To establish a conceptually nuanced,…
    January 2022
    Health Reform, Services & Programs
  • Importance: Increasing prices of antidiabetic medications in the US have raised substantial concerns about the effects of drug affordability on diabetes care. There has been little rigorous evidence comparing the experiences of patients with diabetes across different types of insurance coverage. Objective:  To compare the utilization patterns and costs of prescription drugs to treat…
    January 2022
    Diabetes, Medicaid
  • As an aspiring medical illustrator, Chidiebere Ibe noticed the absence as soon as he began to learn the craft. Why aren’t there more images of Black skin in medical illustration? In a healthcare system beset with racial inequities, the relative scarcity of dark skin tones in medical textbooks is no exception. Driven to correct this imbalance, the Nigerian-born would-be neurosurgeon started…
    January 2022
    Communication
  • A virtual round-table of community Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) practitioners discussing how pivots have been essential during the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice to continue advancing the work. We will explore how panelists have handled the challenges and found opportunities to rapidly develop new partnerships and sustain long-standing ones using a CBPR approach…
    January 2022
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
  • When I joined bi3, a philanthropic initiative to transform health in Greater Cincinnati, we operated as a traditional grantmaker. There were tedious reporting requirements, intense focus on measurable outcomes, and we put the onus on grantees to provide information available publicly. As I dove into the work, I realized we needed to work differently and emphasize partnerships, learning, and what…
    January 2022
    Services & Programs
  • Incorporated in 1992, the Developmental Disabilities Nurses Association (DDNA) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit nursing specialty organization committed to advocacy, education, and support for nurses who provide services to persons with developmental disabilities (DD). (author introduction)
    January 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • As a member of your community, you already know a lot about what your community needs to better support youth. Other members of your community – like youth, parents, teachers, youth advocates and school counselors – also have important perspectives and are vital decision-makers and champions when you select and implement a health ed curriculum. The steps and tools in the Implementation…
    January 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
  • Community Leaders in Health Equity (CLHE) was a community‐based leadership program funded by The Colorado Trust and designed specifically to develop health equity leaders around the state. Grantees from the Community Partnerships regions recruited 11 ‐ 22 individuals from their regions to participate in an 18‐month, hands‐on, immersive curriculum to develop health equity leaders in their…
    January 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research

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