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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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- Although housing is a human right, we are far from everyone having access to safe and adequate housing. Large inequities in housing affordability and quality persist in the U.S. and policies continue to perpetuate those injustices. Cross-sector efforts are needed to ensure fair housing for all. In this webinar, we learned from cross-sector leaders about efforts at the community-, state-, and…September 2022Healthy Housing
- Full-time, permanent employment that offers benefits and protection has been considered the standard work arrangement, but certain jobs are moving away from this standard. Precarious employment, for example, is characterized by insecurity, short-term contracts, and limited access to workers’ rights and protection [NIOSH Strategic Plan, 2022]. These aspects of work represent employment…September 2022Social/Structural Determinants
- The COVID-19 pandemic revealed weaknesses in the public health infrastructure of the United States, including persistent barriers to engaging marginalized communities toward inclusion in clinical research, including trials. Inclusive participation in clinical trials is crucial for promoting vaccine confidence, public trust, and addressing disparate health outcomes. A long-standing body of…September 2022Vaccines , Social Environment
- The growing centering of equity in health has elevated a conversation about how those interests should translate within the systems and sectors that influence health. In particular, the public health data system has been relatively limited in capturing the drivers and consequences of health inequity as well as the varying dimensions of equity. This article examines what it means to use equity as…September 2022Health Reform, Environment/Context
- Structural racism causes stark health inequities and operates at every level of society, including the academic and governmental entities that support health research and practice. We argue that health research institutions must invest in research that actively disrupts racial hierarchies, with leadership from racially marginalized communities and scholars.We highlight synergies between…August 2022Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Racism
- In this episode of the series, Pathways to Health Equity, we speak with Dr. Paula Braveman, Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Founding Director of the Center for Health Equity at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), about her life experiences and their influence on her path in the field as well as her thoughts on the past, present, and future state of health equity.…August 2022Systemic Determinants
- Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. If diversity is another word for variety, how can it enhance or flavor the world?Diversity—through the lenses of race, ethnicity, ability, gender, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, and beyond—can help to strengthen organizations, as studies have shown time and again. Quite simply, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is used to describe three values…August 2022Isms and Phobias
- Evidence shows that social determinants of health (SDOH) are key drivers of diabetes outcomes and disparities in diabetes care. Targeting SDOH at the individual, organizational, and policy levels is an essential step in improving health equity for individuals living with diabetes. In addition, there is increasing recognition of the need to build collaboration across the health care system and…August 2022Diabetes, Social Environment
- The United States signed the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (“ICERD” or “Convention”) in 1966. President Lyndon Johnson’s administration noted at the time that the United States “has not always measured up to its constitutional heritage of equality for all” but that it was “on the march” toward compliance.[1] The United States finally ratified…August 2022Racism
- This resource pack was curated by the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator to examine the gun violence epidemic and its public health implications in the United States. This collection of resources assesses the prevalence of gun violence in the U.S., comparative policy and legislation between the U.S. and other countries, violence in schools, mass shootings, and intentional and…August 2022Gun Violence/Firearms, Social Environment
- Hospitals, health systems, and health plans have long been at the heart of the health care ecosystem. But as consumers move closer to the center, trusted organizations in the community are beginning to play a more significant role in health care. Community-based health ecosystems can extend the reach of traditional health stakeholders, help instill trust, and break down barriers to ensure that…August 2022Physical Environment, Social Environment, Preparedness
- The Rockefeller Foundation announces the launch of the Vaccination Action Network (VAN), a USD$7.4 million locally-led, peer-to-peer learning initiative designed to engage public health decision-makers across sub-Saharan Africa and bolster their efforts to strengthen health systems while scaling up Covid-19 vaccine demand strategies. (author introduction)August 2022COVID-19/Coronavirus, Vaccine Access and Uptake, Global Health
- Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted life in extraordinary ways impacting health and daily mobility. Public transit provides a strategy to improve individual and population health through increased active travel and reduced vehicle dependency, while ensuring equitable access to jobs, healthcare, education, and mitigating climate change. However, health safety concerns during the COVID-19…August 2022Transportation
- Backgroundd/Deaf people suffer from inequitable access to healthcare and health information. This results in worse health literacy and poorer mental and physical health compared to hearing populations. Various interventions aimed at improving health equity for d/Deaf people have been documented but not systematically analyzed. The purpose of this systematic review is to obtain a global overview…August 2022Services & Programs, Education
- According to a new Deloitte report, by 2040, the cost America pays for its barriers to healthcare access could surpass $1 trillion. The report analyzes impacts across several “high-cost diseases,” including cancer, diabetes and heart disease.The most alarming cost is the number of lives at stake. Many people can’t afford to see the doctor; some do not even have one nearby. Addressing these and…July 2022Systemic Determinants, Access
- In this episode of the series, Pathways to Health Equity, we speak with Dr. Sherman James, the Susan B. King Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, about growing up in the Deep South, firsthand experiences during the civil rights movement, and other circumstances that put him on the path of health justice, establishing him as a…July 2022Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Environmental Injustice
- In an interview with the Kresge Foundation, Francys Crevier, Chief Executive Officer of the National Council of Urban Indian Health, discusses how organizational partnerships have advanced health equity and paved the way for equitable healthcare in Indian Country.July 2022Environmental/Community Health
- A strong start in life: How public health policies affect the well-being of pregnancies and familiesThis report takes a holistic view of perinatal health and, as people progress through different stages of development, puts it in context as a developmental precursor to later indicators of wellness, including birth outcomes, postpartum wellness, and subsequent child development. The five domains of social determinants of health and well-being serve as the framework for this report:…July 2022COVID-19/Coronavirus, Maternal/Child Health, Social/Structural Determinants
- In this Special Feature, we draw from the work of experts on American Indian health inequities to highlight the unfair disparities this population faces as a result of historical trauma. (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarJuly2023July 2022Social/Structural Determinants, Historical Trauma, Racism
- The Denver Housing to Health (H2H) Pay for Success project will provide supportive housing for individuals at the intersection of multiple public systems—those who are experiencing homelessness; have a record of at least eight arrests, at least three of which are marked as transient, over three years in Denver County; have a recent Denver Police Department (DPD) contact; and are at high risk for…July 2022Housing Discrimination, Healthy Housing
- On February 26, 2012, a Black child, Trayvon Martin, was executed in Sanford, Florida. Seventeen months later his killer was found not guilty. This is but one example of the state’s brazen disregard for Black life, rooted in the kidnapping and enslavement of Africans more than 400 years ago, and the ways in which they and their descendants were systematically tortured. Trayvon Martin’s murder…June 2022Social/Structural Determinants, Isms and Phobias, Racism
- There are many common myths about how to end homelessness. At RWJF’s Evidence for Action program, we wanted to test what truly works. We funded Sarah Gillespie and Dr. Devlin Hanson at the Urban Institute to conduct an evaluation of the Denver SIB program. What we learned is that supportive housing has several benefits. It can help end the homelessness-to-jail cycle, free up public resources for…June 2022Healthy Housing
- Welcome to Partners for Advancing Health Equity, a podcast series bringing together people working on the forefront of addressing issues of health justice. Here, we create a space for in-depth conversations about what it will take to create the conditions that allow all people to live their healthiest life possible. Partners for Advancing Health Equity is led by Tulane School of Public Health and…June 2022Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- The lack of literature on Indigenous conceptions of health and the social determinants of health (SDH) for US Indigenous communities limits available information for Indigenous nations as they set policy and allocate resources to improve the health of their citizens. In 2015, eight scholars from tribal communities and mainstream educational institutions convened to examine: the limitations of…June 2022Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Social/Structural Determinants
- Food and nutrition are literally life-giving and life-sustaining, yet parents and caretakers in the United States who rely on infant and specialty formulas for their loved ones’ health and nutritional needs face high prices and severe shortages. As of May 2022, 43 percent of formula products were out of stock nationwide—a massive increase from the average out-of-stock rate of between 2 percent…June 2022Maternal/Child Health, Social/Structural Determinants
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