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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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  • This document provides information on respectful and person-first language for inclusive communication. 
    August 2022
    Communication
  • The United States has a long history of occupational safety and health (OSH) research, policy, and intervention. Despite this, long-standing occupational health inequities continue, with underserved workers experiencing higher rates of injury and illness. Occupational Health Equity Program researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently wrote a commentary…
    August 2022
    Services & Programs
  • 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 2022
    Services & Programs, Education
  • Over the last 57 years, health centers have grown to become the cornerstone of community-based primary health care in the United States. By integrating medical, dental, behavioral, and other health care services, health centers provide patients the right care, at the right time, in the right place. (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarNovember2022
    August 2022
    Services & Programs
  • Takeaways: Sharing data across state agencies and community-based organizations is critical for advancing health equity and addressing complex health challenges that involve multiple sectors. Including individuals with lived expertise in data sharing and policy development can make these efforts more responsive to the needs of community members, particularly those in historically marginalized…
    August 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
  • After more than a century of research and debate, the scientific community has yet to reach agreement on the principal causes of racialized disparities in population health. This debate currently centers on the degree to which "race residuals" are a result of unobserved differences in the social context or unobserved differences in population characteristics. The comparative study of native and…
    July 2022
    Maternal/Child Health
  • 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 2022
    Systemic 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 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Environmental Injustice
  • Social media is an important tool for disseminating accurate medical information and combating misinformation (ie, the spreading of false or inaccurate information) and disinformation (ie, spreading misinformation with the intent to deceive). The prolific rise of inaccurate information during a global pandemic is a pressing public health concern. In response to this phenomenon, health…
    July 2022
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Advocacy, Communication
  • SDG 10 stipulates that inequality within and between countries can be reduced by governmental policies that focus on the allocation of fiscal resources and social protection strategies to improve equity. The sustainability of community-based care stations is a crucial support network for achieving the goal of active aging. Unequal allocation would occur only if the populations of administrative…
    July 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • 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 2022
    Environmental/Community Health
  • Since its founding in 2007 at the Yale School of Public Health, the Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE) has worked to identify solutions to health challenges such as diabetes, asthma, and heart and lung diseases through community-based research and projects focusing on social, environmental, and behavioral risk factors. In the fall of 2016, The Community Alliance for Research…
    July 2022
    Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
  • Drug overdose data show troubling trends and widening disparities between different population groups. In just one year, overdose death rates (number of drug overdose deaths per 100,000 people) increased 44% for Black people and 39% for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people. Most people who died by overdose had no evidence of substance use treatment before their deaths. In fact, a…
    July 2022
    Substance Use and Misuse
  • The P4HE Collaborative brought together media and health equity experts to discuss the media's role in the advancement of health equity and leveraging other communications avenues to promote research, practice and policy. In this webinar, speakers: Examined how health equity is discussed in the news coverage.Shared about health equity podcasting and other ways to connect with audiences.…
    July 2022
    Communication
  • At their core, the nation’s infrastructure projects have either reflected values of equity or the lack thereof. In this context, health equity is defined as the removal of “obstacles to health, such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care.”…
    July 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • This 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 2022
    COVID-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) #P4HEwebinarJuly2023
    July 2022
    Social/Structural Determinants, Historical Trauma, Racism
  • When state and local policymakers work to promote health equity—the guiding principle that disparities in health outcomes caused by factors such as race, income, or geography should be addressed and prevented, providing opportunities for all people to be as healthy as possible—they often lack quality data on specific problems and affected populations. Restrictive or unclear policies for data…
    July 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • 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 2022
    Housing Discrimination, Healthy Housing
  • The distribution of power in society is “upstream of the upstream” social determinants of health, and community organizers redistribute power to change social and political systems that shape health. Power-building Partnerships for Health (PPH) was launched in 2018 and pairs local public health departments and community organizing groups to support transformational health equity work,…
    July 2022
    Policy and Practice, Advocacy, Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
  • Large infrastructure projects, such as mining and renewable energy projects, can affect the health of surrounding communities by changing the natural, physical and social environment. While there is limited understanding of potential health impacts of such projects on local populations in general, there is a particular need for community-driven and equity-oriented approaches to predict and manage…
    July 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
  • Achieving optimal health for all requires confronting the complex legacies of colonialism and white supremacy embedded in all institutions, including health care institutions. As a result, health care organizations committed to health equity must build the capacity of their staff to recognize the contemporary manifestations of these legacies within the organization and to act to eliminate them.…
    July 2022
    Advocacy
  • While states could not ban abortion while Roe v. Wade was in place, several passed laws that would criminalize the procedure when and if the 1973 court case was ever struck down. The overturning of Roe v. Wade has "triggered" laws in 13 states that severely restrict or ban abortion. Some of these trigger laws are being challenged by lawsuits. Additional states are likely…
    June 2022
  • Objective: To compare and summarize the literature regarding infodemics and health misinformation, and to identify challenges and opportunities for addressing the issues of infodemics.Methods: We searched MEDLINE®, Embase®, Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews, Scopus and Epistemonikos on 6 May 2022 for systematic reviews analysing infodemics, misinformation, disinformation and fake news…
    June 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • 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 2022
    Social/Structural Determinants, Isms and Phobias, Racism

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