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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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- In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health.Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and…January 2017Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions, Services & Programs, Social/Structural Determinants
- There are many tools available to communities to help them design, implement, and evaluate community-based solutions that advance health equity. These tools can be organized by the three elements identified in the committee's conceptual model (see Figure 8-1): (1) creating a shared vision and value of health equity, (2) increasing community capacity to shape health outcomes, and (3)…January 2017Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Physical Environment, Social Environment
- The 2017 AAMC Community Engagement Toolkit features presentations, discussion questions, and interviews with 17 urban-dwelling Native Americans that academic health centers can use to engage their communities in dialogue about the perceived risks and benefits of participating in the NIH All of Us Research Program and other research efforts. The All of Us Research Program was designed to deploy…January 2017Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing
- Arts and culture are essential for building community, supporting development, nurturing health and well-being, and contributing to economic opportunity. Collectively, arts and culture enable understanding of the past and envisioning of a shared, more equitable future. In disinvested communities, arts and culture act as tools for community development, shaping infrastructure, transportation,…January 2017Services & Programs, Social Environment
- The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), a nonprofit research organization in Washington, DC, called on artists of all kinds to illustrate what health equity looks, sounds, and feels like to them. Whether it’s access to healthy food or safe neighborhoods, good education or a living wage, clean drinking water or affordable housing, connection to cultural heritage or lack of discrimination, health…January 2017Policy and Practice
- The American Health Professional College (AHPC; Mission statement: To train the next generation of health professionals to provide the highest level of care to patients, families, and communities) and its affiliated hospital, Universal Health Care (UHC; Mission statement: To provide high value, high quality care to our patients), have been engaged in an 18-month process to better address an…January 2017Anxiety, Depression, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- The Health Initiative of the Americas (HIA) at the University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health, is considered one of the world’s leading programs on health and migration. Established in 2001, HIA works binationally with Latin American governments and public and private institutions, and agencies, as well as with grassroots organizations in the U.S. to improve health outcomes,…January 2017Services & Programs
- Advance gender affirming care by applying best practices in organizational change to your health care setting. This guide details a health center’s journey through an organizational assessment process. With practical templates and facilitation guides, you can implement a similar approach in your health center. (author abstract) #P4HEwebinarJune2023January 2017Adolescent Health, Policy and Practice
- Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate how an individual’s social determinants of health are affected by the acquisition of physical disability in adulthood. The secondary aim was to report the described facilitators and barriers to living with a disability. Method: This qualitative study used an exploratory, descriptive approach. Nine individuals with a neurologically…December 2016Social Environment, Ableism
- There is strong evidence from around the globe that people who are poor and less educated have more health problems and die earlier than those who are richer and more educated, and these disparities exist even in wealthy countries like Canada. To make an impact on improving health equity and providing more patient-centred care, it is necessary to better understand and address the underlying…December 2016Advocacy, Social/Structural Determinants
- In this essay, we focus on the potential and promise that intersectionality holds as a lens for studying the social determinants of health, reducing health disparities, and promoting health equity and social justice. Research that engages intersectionality as a guiding conceptual, methodological, and praxis-oriented framework is focused on power dynamics, specifically the relationships between…December 2016Social/Structural Determinants
- Improvements in health-care quality can contribute to healthier populations. However, many global and national health strategies are not sufficiently considering the issues of measuring and improving health-care quality in low-resource settings. The barriers to delivering high-quality care are often similar across different health systems. However, the extent and mechanisms through which these…November 2016Policy and Practice
- This qualitative investigation was undertaken to explore the value of focus group participation to introduce new concepts into practice within public health. Seven public health inspectors who participated in an earlier focus group study responded to follow-up questions designed to assess whether their participation in the original focus group sessions lead to changes in their thinking or…November 2016Policy and Practice
- Katherine Theall of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine looked at the association of the three neighborhood-level stressors with biological outcomes reflected by telomere length and cortisol functioning. Telomeres are the region at the end of chromosomes that naturally shorten with age. Shorter telomere lengths are associated with higher risks for…November 2016Maternal/Child Health, Adolescent Health, Social Environment
- This report summarizes key lessons learned from the Health Equity Advocacy Strategy (HEAS), a multi-phase, multi-year effort aimed at building a strong, effective field of health equity advocates statewide.An HEAS cohort of 18-grantees includes a variety of grasstops and grassroots advocacy, service and organizing groups. Within this collaborative endeavor, a core focus of the HEAS grantees has…November 2016Services & Programs
- Cross-sector collaborations and partnerships are an essential component of the strategy to improve health and well-being in the United States. While their importance is unquestioned, their impact on population health has not yet been fully observed. Cross-sector collaboration also is the second Action Area of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s four-part Action Framework to build a Culture of…November 2016Services & Programs
- The World Health Organization (WHO) defines social determinants of health as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life” (WHO, 2016a). These forces and systems include economic policies, development agendas, cultural and social norms, social policies, and political systems. Health inequities, “…October 2016Interventions, Social/Structural Determinants
- Background: Structural violence shapes the health of Indigenous peoples globally, and is deeply embedded in history, individual and institutional racism, and inequitable social policies and practices. Many Indigenous communities have flourished, however, the impact of colonialism continues to have profound health effects for Indigenous peoples in Canada and internationally. Despite increasing…October 2016Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Services & Programs
- There is a common assumption that programs aiming to increase coverage of health services and reduce morbidity and mortality among the poor are, by virtue, equitable. However, without careful attention to equity in the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and adjustment of the strategy, these programs may result in narrow impacts that only improve the situation of those who are…September 2016Maternal/Child Health, Reproductive/Sexual Health, Policy and Practice
- Initiatives based in communities can have widespread effects. Not only can they transform the communities in which they are located, but they can act as seedbeds for similar programs elsewhere. Three presenters at the workshop described such initiatives and their potential to reduce health disparities. (author description) #P4HEwebinarNovember2023August 2016Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
- Public health depends on a sustained, constructive engagement between public health and political systems. This study outlines the importance of such engagement, and suggests ground rules that can help bridge the current divide. (author abstract) #P4HEwebinarMarch2024August 2016Policy and Practice
- Health disparities—differences in health status between groups of people that are often preventable and unfair—affect every nation, from the least to the most developed. Even in a country like Sweden, with the highest male life expectancy in Europe and a social welfare system that many countries envy, there is a gap in life expectancy between people with low and high levels of education. 1,2…August 2016
- A roundtable on cross-sector collaboration and resource alignment for health equity: Meeting summaryCross-sector collaboration is a highly recommended strategy to eliminate health inequities nationally and globally. In the federal sector, it is evolving into an important approach for solving complex social problems, as evidenced by its steady proliferation the past few decades. Despite the increased adoption of cross-sector collaboration, it is still not a default strategy or preeminent option…August 2016Social/Structural Determinants
- Objectives: To evaluate knowledge and prescribing changes following a 2-month public health detailing campaign (one-to-one educational visits) about judicious opioid analgesic prescribing conducted among health care providers in Staten Island, New York City, in 2013.Methods: Three detailing campaign recommendations were (1) a 3-day supply of opioids is usually sufficient for acute pain…August 2016Prescription Drug Use
- Community-based participatory research is a promising approach to reducing health disparities. It empowers individuals and communities to become the major players in solving their own health problems. We discuss the use of community-based participatory research and other strategies to enhance empowerment. We also discuss projects from the Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities that…August 2016Community-rooted/Participatory Research
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