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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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- With the abundance of health information available today, it can be hard to tell what is true or not. We all need access to trusted sources of information to stay safe and healthy.A Surgeon General’s Advisory is a public statement that calls the American people’s attention to a public health issue and provides recommendations for how that issue should be addressed. Advisories are reserved for…January 2021Policy and Practice
- False or misleading information about diseases, illnesses, potential treatments and cures, vaccines, diets and cosmetic procedures are causing people to make decisions that could have dangerous consequences for their health.This type of information can spread through communities, within families, and between friends. Often, we’re trying to help—so we share information that seems helpful. But the…January 2021Policy and Practice
- This is Part I of a three-part series on community empowerment as a route to greater health equity. We argue that community ‘empowerment’ approaches in the health field are increasingly restricted to an inward gaze on community psycho-social capacities and proximal neighbourhood conditions, neglecting the outward gaze on political and social transformation for greater equity embedded in…December 2020Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- This package seeks to strengthen existing leadership development curricula for pre- and in-service health workers and managers through a suite of gender-transformative sessions, which challenge participants to identify and respond to unique considerations for women in leadership. Rather than expecting women to “lean in” to professions and organizations that have largely excluded them from…December 2020Communication, Social/Structural Determinants
- Purpose: Safety net health services, such as federally funded health clinics, are interventions that aim to mitigate inequality in resource distribution, thus primarily clustered in poor areas with lack of access to health care. However, not all neighborhoods with the most needs benefit from safety net health services. In this article, we explore the distribution of a federally funded health…December 2020Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- Healthcare and social services providers are deemed culturally competent when they offer culturally appropriate care to the populations they serve. While a review of the literature highlights the limited effectiveness of cultural competence training, its value remains largely unchallenged and it is institutionally mandated as a means of decreasing health disparities and improving quality of care…December 2020Policy and Practice
- On July 29, 2020, the Roundtable on Health Literacy convened a public workshop to explore the challenges resulting from the proliferation of health and medical misinformation and disinformation, particularly as they relate to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The virtual workshop explored the role of fact-checking organizations (FCOs) and the technology industry in addressing…December 2020Communication
- Background: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is studied from many perspectives and has gained unprecedented importance in recent years, especially in emerging economies. Pharmaceutical companies play a very important role in a population’s well-being and health through the CSR and corporate governance practices that they apply. Methods: We used an exploratory approach to measure…December 2020Policy & Law
- Climate change directly threatens human health, with substantial impacts on Indigenous peoples, who are uniquely vulnerable as climate-related events affect their practices, lifeways, self-determination, and physical and cultural health. At the same time, Indigenous communities are leading the way in innovative health-related climate change adaptation work, using traditional knowledges and novel…December 2020Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions, Climate Change, Environmental Injustice
- Despite growing evidence on the social determinants of health and health equity, political action has not been commensurate. Little is known about how political will operates to enact pro-equity policies or not. This paper examines how political will for pro-health equity policies is created through analysis of public policy in multiple sectors. (author introduction)December 2020Policy & Law
- Although coordinated investments in SDOH have the potential to improve national wellbeing, we continue to observe underfunding of such efforts. Pooled funding is one mechanism that may be used to encourage collaboration and ensure that a broad array of sectors jointly fund and share in the benefits of SDOH investment. While interest in collaborative financing mechanisms grows, there are…December 2020Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- In the early 1900s, African Americans died at higher rates, got sick more often, and had worse health outcomes for almost all diseases when compared to whites. This disparity was due to a combination of racism, discrimination, and segregation. Most blacks could only afford to live in unhealthy conditions and had little or no access to medical professionals. Problematically, poor black health led…December 2020Interventions, Racism
- The goal of this study is to examine the effect of the Housing First model on expenditures by MassHealth, Massachusetts’ Medicaid program. Housing First offers chronically homeless individuals immediate housing as a foundation for the delivery of a range of other supportive services (e.g., mental health and/or substance use disorder services and social service supports). The Massachusetts Housing…December 2020Housing Discrimination, Healthy Housing
- Since its inception in 1996, The California Endowment (TCE) has sought ever greater impact in improving the health and lives of all Californians, with an intense focus on the state’s populations and communities of color experiencing low income. The foundation’s approach has evolved from supporting programmatic efforts to a focus on communities, policy change, and systems reform, to now an…December 2020Policy & Law, Systemic Determinants
- Building Healthy Communities (BHC) has been the signature initiative of The California Endowment (TCE) for the past 10 years. It has combined continuous investment in leadership and organizing capacity-building and advocacy campaigns in 14 historically disinvested communities, with related state-level and regional policy campaigns and coalition building. BHC has remained far from static in its…December 2020Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
- "We know what works. We know what will center the humanity and dignity and ensure that Black folks are not just surviving but thriving . . . But we don’t fund it.” - US Rep. Ayanna Pressley, MA-07In this powerful quote, Rep. Ayanna Pressley is highlighting two important ways philanthropy and other sectors can drive meaningful change by:1) Focusing on strategies that center humanity and explicitly…November 2020Services & Programs
- As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, states face difficult budget decisions. As states forgo billions of dollars in tax exemptions to nonprofit hospitals, it is more critical than ever that these exemptions yield genuine value to their communities. A new National Academy for State Health Policy’s (NASHP) tool helps states gather detailed information from hospitals about their community benefit…November 2020Services & Programs
- Primary health care offers a cost–effective route to achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However, primary health-care systems are weak in many low- and middle-income countries and often fail to provide comprehensive, people-centred, integrated care. We analysed the primary health-care systems in 20 low- and middle-income countries using a semi-grounded approach. Options for strengthening…November 2020Services & Programs, Global Health
- UNC Health rapidly launched a mobile Covid testing unit to underserved community sites in May 2020 to provide targeted testing of uninsured Black and Latinx community members. We engaged with existing Black and Latinx community leaders to co-develop the program, converting a mobile vascular screening unit into a testing site and resource center for patients at risk. In the first three months, 2,…October 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Research has the potential to influence US social policy; however, existing research in this area lacks a coherent message. The Model for Dissemination of Research provides a framework through which to synthesize lessons learned from research to date on the process of translating research to US policymakers. (author abstract) #P4HEsummit2022October 2020Communication
- Ros Beadle is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University (in Alice Springs). Despite extensive previous experience working in community development, Ros Beadle found herself out of her comfort zone when she first started to work as a community support worker in a very remote Australian Aboriginal community in 2009. As she indicates in this conversation with Ernie…October 2020Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- As states seek to address the social determinants of health and advance health equity, they face longstanding and persistent challenges in collecting complete, accurate, and consistent race, ethnicity and language (REL) data. This expert perspective provides an overview of current REL data collection standards; ideas for increasing completeness in data by engaging the enrollee and enrollment…October 2020Medicaid
- Policies that increase access to SNAP are related to reduced risk of food insecurity, particularly among economically vulnerable households.More widely available school breakfast may help offset food insecurity. Policies outside of food assistance—including length of unemployment insurance availability, generosity of EITC and potentially higher minimum wages —are linked to food security. A…October 2020Services & Programs, Systemic Determinants
- Recent events in American history are motivating people and institutions to reckon with the effects of persistent racism in American society. As recent posts on the IAPHS blog have highlighted, racism still exists in the U.S., and this has been made even clearer by the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been much discussion, particularly on academic Twitter, about how researchers can better use and…October 2020Services & Programs
- Research on the bi-directional relationship between mental health and homelessness is reviewed and extended to consider a broader global perspective, highlighting structural factors that contribute to housing instability and its mental ill health sequelae. Local, national and international initiatives to address housing and mental health include Housing First in Western countries and promising…October 2020Housing Discrimination, Healthy Housing
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