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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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- The IDD Toolkit website provides information for the primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Toolkit offers health care providers best-practice tools and information regarding specific medical and mental and behavioral health concerns, including resources for patients and families. (website description) #P4HEwebinarJuly2024January 2024Policy and Practice
- Grassroots advocacy movement with a goal of creating a dynamic community to empower and grow disability leaders within healthcare organizations. (website description) #P4HEwebinarJuly2024January 2024Advocacy
- Around the world, people lack access to life-saving knowledge and expertise. With Project ECHO, we know a world where life-saving best practices are available to every person, no matter their circumstance, is possible. Project ECHO’s revolutionary model provides training and mentorship to transform and sustain strong health systems where every person has fast access to the highest quality health…January 2024Policy and Practice
- Widening health inequities are undermining trust in institutions, reinforcing social fractures and leaving excluded communities further behind. Narrowing the health gap, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, is not only a matter of social justice, but it is also essential to build trust, social cohesion and economic resilience.The cost of living is rising at a time when countries and their…January 2024Social/Structural Determinants
- Employment is a critical social determinant of health, whether it provides a source of income, health insurance coverage, social connections or sense of pride. However, a variety of barriers can make finding and maintaining a job more difficult for people with mental illness, and these may be further compounded by aspects of race, gender, and age. For example, many people are concerned that…January 2024Mental/Behavioral Health
- The purpose of this tool is to help campuses build consensus around key foundational concepts related to equity and inclusion. The activities in this tool serve as a starting point for engaging in difficult conversations and to ensure everyone is on the same page before engaging in the process of examining equity gaps. (author abstract) #P4HEsummit2022January 2024Policy and Practice
- The Build Healthy Places Network publishes a diverse array of reports and publications focused on advancing community health through cross-sector collaborations. These resources highlight innovative strategies and case studies that integrate health considerations into community development, housing, and urban planning initiatives. By synthesizing research, policy recommendations, and practical…January 2024Social/Structural Determinants
- Nearly a third of all nations class LGBTQ+ people as criminals. Homosexuality is still punishable by death in 12 countries. This can make it impossible for the LGBTQ+ community – still one of the groups most affected by the HIV epidemic to get the healthcare they need. (author introduction)January 2024Advocacy
- Each of our Labs on the “Arts, Health, and Social/Emotional Well-Being” focus on research questions such as the following, under “Therapeutic Approaches and Benefits” or “Non-Therapeutic Approaches and Benefits”: Therapeutic Approaches and BenefitsWhat changes in physical or mental health outcomes are experienced by subjects receiving creative arts therapies to treat one or more diseases,…January 2024Advocacy
- Solving today's complex health and social issues effectively and equitably is beyond the purview of any one agency, organization, or discipline. Working cross-sectorally represents a key opportunity for communities to create significant, sustainable improvements in health and equity outcomes. Prevention Institute's collaboration tools emerged from experience working in health coalitions and…January 2024Interventions
- An estimated 1.3 billion people – or 16% of global population worldwide – experience a significant disability today. Persons with disabilities have the right to the highest attainable standard of health as those without disabilities. However, the WHO Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities demonstrates that while some progress has been made in recent years, the world is still…January 2024Advocacy
- Creating Healthy Communities: Arts + Public Health in America, a 3-year national initiative undertaken from 2018-2020, was designed to accelerate this innovation at the intersection of the arts and public health and to build healthy communities in alignment with our national public health goals. The initiative sought to expand the intersections of arts, community development and public health…January 2024Policy and Practice
- The American Academy of Developmental Medicine & Dentistry (AADMD) is a non-profit, membership organization of interdisciplinary health professionals — including primary physicians, medical specialists, dentists, optometrists, nurses and other clinicians — committed to improving the quality of healthcare for people with intellectual & developmental disabilities (IDD). (author introduction…January 2024Policy and Practice
- IEC (Institute for Exceptional Care) is a national nonprofit working to make healthcare better and safer for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD). IEC partners with people with lived experience of IDD, family members, and healthcare professionals to change the way care is taught, delivered, and paid for by creating tools, programs, and campaigns. (author introduction)January 2024Services & Programs
- This webpage lists common reactions to disasters, tips for coping, and additional resources. #P4HEwebinarJune2024January 2024Mental/Behavioral Health, Disasters
- Pre-existing, structural gender inequalities mean that disasters affect women and girls in different ways than they affect boys and men. The vulnerability of females increases when they are in a lower socioeconomic group, particularly in the Global South. This vulnerability impacts preparedness, evacuation, response, number of deaths and recovery. The reasons for this vulnerability can often be…January 2024Disasters
- Employer can provide employees with reasonable accommodations and workplace supports, such as adjustments or modifications, to enable people with disabilities, including mental health conditions, to perform job essential functions effectively and efficiently. Below are some resources to help employers support and accommodate employees with mental health conditions. (author description) #…January 2024Mental/Behavioral Health, Policy and Practice
- University of Florida's Center for Arts in Medicine is committed to transforming health and wellness through the arts. It encourages its students to use their creativity to advance health, wellness, and equity as trained arts in health professionals.January 2024Advocacy
- The National Women’s Health Network is a 501c3 not for profit that represents the health interests of women across the life continuum. We maintain an intersectional focus on sexual and reproductive health, maternal health and the health and well-being of aging women. We work to improve women’s health outcomes through state and federal advocacy, consumer health education, and grassroots technical…January 2024Advocacy
- Our freedom to thrive depends on having a consistent set of vital conditions, such as clean air, fair pay, humane housing, early education, routine health care, and other basic necessities. Personal experiences may rise and fall from birth to death. However, vital conditions persist over generations. They shape the exposures, choices, opportunities, and adversities that we each encounter…January 2024Social/Structural Determinants
- The purpose of this toolkit is to help state and territorial health agencies (S/THAs) build and sustain partnerships with non-traditional, non-public health sectors. It focuses on how S/THAs can use Healthy People 2030 to motivate multisector collaboration, improve health outcomes, and advance health equity. (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarMarch2024January 2024Interventions
- The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) is leading the profession to be more diverse, equitable, and inclusive through its commitment to developing diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, access, and belonging (DEIJAB) resources and tools to strengthen occupational therapy practitioners' contribution to a healthy and engaged community. (author description)January 2024Policy and Practice
- 2023 is on pace to be a record-setting year for state legislation targeting LGBTQ adults and youth, with legislation that targets healthcare, education, public places and services, and drag performers or entertainment. Each of the previous two years—2022 and 2021—were record-setting years for anti-LGBTQ legislation, and the public rhetoric around these issues has increased since then. (author…January 2024Policy & Law
- The Turnaway Study is ANSIRH’s prospective longitudinal study examining the effects of unwanted pregnancy on women’s lives. The major aim of the study is to describe the mental health, physical health, and socioeconomic consequences of receiving an abortion compared to carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term. The main finding of The Turnaway Study is that receiving an abortion does not harm the…January 2024Abortion
- States across the country have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with a flood of policy changes, from physical distancing and mask requirements to expansions of social safety net programs and eviction freezes. The COVID-19 US State Policy (CUSP) database is a publicly available dataset that is free for all users to download. CUSP is designed to be a tool for researchers, policymakers, the media…January 2024COVID-19/Coronavirus, Policy & Law
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