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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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  • 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
  • The Trevor Project’s 2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health demonstrates that rates of suicidal thoughts have trended upward among LGBTQ young people over the last three years, making our life-saving work all the more important. Capturing the experiences of nearly 34,000 LGBTQ youth ages 13-24 across the United States, with 45% of respondents being LGBTQ youth of color and 48% being…
    January 2022
    Mental/Behavioral Health
  • Systemic racism damages the health of people of color, and can also damage the health and well-being of virtually the entire society in which it operates. Systemic racism is racism that is pervasively and deeply embedded in systems and structures such as laws, written or unwritten policies, and widespread, deeply rooted, established practices, beliefs, and attitudes that produce, condone, and…
    January 2022
    Social/Structural Determinants, Racism
  • The “Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease” provides lessons learned from evidence- and practice-based strategies. The innovative ideas highlight how to maximize the effects of policy, systems, and environmental improvement strategies—all with the goal of reducing health disparities and advancing health equity. (website…
    January 2022
    Chronic Disease, Social/Structural Determinants
  • 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
  • The Equitable Healthy Aging in Public Health Toolkit Report aims to increase the capacity of public health departments to enhance equitable health and wellbeing of older adults and promote healthy aging across the life course in community health improvement practice. The toolkit begins by framing and defining the scope of equitable healthy aging vis-à-vis the roles and opportunities for…
    January 2022
    Communicable Disease, Aging and Life Course
  • The story of our nation is one of justice and freedom, but the unspoken truth is too many people are shut out of equal opportunities because of the color of their skin. Civil Rights laws and advocacy movements have brought racial inequities to light, but have not solved urgent problems caused by structural racism. This inequity has led to wide-scale poorer health outcomes and shorter life spans.…
    January 2022
    Racism
  • 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
  • One in nine people worldwide are undernourished today. Farmers, fishers, farm workers, and others along the food chain are especially at risk for going hungry. At the same time, world agricultural systems are more productive than they’ve ever been, producing more than enough food to feed everyone. The problem isn’t lack of food, but who has the power and resources to access and control food.The…
    January 2022
    Services & Programs
  • Structural racism refers to the public and private policies, institutional practices, norms, and cultural representations that inherently create unequal freedom, opportunity, value, resources, advantage, restrictions, constraints, or disadvantage for individuals and populations according to their race and ethnicity both across the life course and between generations. Developing a research agenda…
    January 2022
    Policy and Practice, Racism
  • As on reproductive justice, Unitarian Universalists (UUs) are uniquely positioned to advocate for justice for immigrants. Some of the most harmful effects of the broken U.S. immigration system have been borne by women and parents who are unable to have full control over their sexual and reproductive lives because of their immigration status, race, financial capabilities, or gender identity.…
    January 2022
    Migration
  • The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change. It offers thousands of pages of tips and tools for taking action in communities.Want to learn about community assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, advocacy, and other aspects of community practice? Then help yourself to over 300 educational modules and other…
    January 2022
    Advocacy, Environmental/Community Health
  • As the health equity movement continues to build momentum, there is now a timely window of opportunity to unite leaders in the public health field to learn, connect, and strategize with one another about how health equity can be The leaders of these centers that advance health equity have become an informal network of leaders over the past several years. PolicyLink has convened them on several…
    January 2022
    Advocacy
  • The Framework has five pillars, and they guide local communities in implementing TRHT activities. The first two pillars — (1) Narrative Change and (2) Racial Healing & Relationship Building represent the people-work that is necessary in order to fuel the transformation. The other three pillars — (3) Separation; (4) the Law; and (5) the Economy — represent the areas in which systemic change…
    January 2022
    Interventions
  • This tool describes key elements of lived experience, its features in the context of health and human services, and why engaging people with lived experience is essential to advancing equity. (author introduction)#P4HEwebinarJune2023
    January 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • At the height of the pandemic in August 2020, the Public Health Institute’s Together Toward Health (TTH) was formed to help address the equity gaps that already existed in our public health systems but were made drastically worse by COVID-19. TTH prioritized funding community-based organizations (CBOs) to lead COVID outreach and messaging efforts to provide professional development opportunities…
    January 2022
    Services & Programs
  • The private practice of psychiatry is in slow decline, and collaborative care will be its replacement. This is an inevitable result of the reality that there are too few psychiatrists being trained to cover the psychiatric needs of a growing population; increased rates of depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders across the population; and reduced stigma, which previously served as a…
    December 2021
    Mental/Behavioral Health, Health Reform
  • Robust genomic surveillance, along with transparency, communication, and global collaboration, is needed to detect and control emerging variants.To control the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) called on member states to meet a goal of vaccinating 40% of their population by the end of 2021. As of mid December 2021, over 8.6 billion doses have been administered globally.…
    December 2021
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Vaccines
  • Creating health equity is a guiding priority and core value of APHA. By health equity, we mean everyone has the opportunity to attain their highest level of health. (website description) 
    December 2021
    Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
  • Health care organizations are increasingly making equitable care a strategic priority. Obstetric care represents a major area that needs improvement, as there are long-standing significant disparities in care and high rates of maternal morbidity and mortality. Artificial intelligence (AI) heralds the potential to improve care by employing novel approaches for prevention, risk mitigation,…
    December 2021
    Adverse Birth Outcomes, Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
  • Safe States Alliance hosted the IVPN Equity Convening (Equity Convening) to mobilize its Injury and Violence Prevention Network (IVPN) members and supporting colleagues to identify opportunities for the injury and violence prevention (IVP) field to collectively realize a vision for addressing inequities through partnership and policy activities. The convening goals were to: Establish a…
    December 2021
    Gun Violence/Firearms, Gun policy
  • New polling data shows significant differences in trust by age, income, race, and sector. With the coronavirus and its variants here to stay, the U.S. vaccination rate hovers stubbornly around 60%. With each new wave, COVID-19 cases spike, and deaths soon follow — almost always more so in the most historically marginalized and resource-deprived neighborhoods and communities. Here in the AAMC’s…
    December 2021
    Environment/Context
  • In the 21st century, global healthcare confronts complex challenges exacerbated by crises like COVID-19 and ongoing issues such as non-communicable diseases and aging populations. Addressing these demands a collaborative approach, where public-private partnerships (PPPs) play a crucial role. Originally viewed as financial tools for infrastructure, PPPs now offer innovative solutions to expand…
    December 2021
    Policy and Practice
  • Prior research has found socio-economic determinants such as education to affect health outcomes. Yet, education is not distributed equally among the population. This article attempts to quantify the impact of unequal distribution of education on inequalities in life expectancy. We calculate a Gini coefficient of longevity from the life tables provided by the Human Mortality Database and a Gini…
    December 2021
    Aging and Life Course

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