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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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- Health care professionals nationally may be inadequately trained to address gaps in health care affecting underserved communities, according to findings published this summer in a JAMA Network Open paper. VCU’s health sciences schools are working to bridge this gap. In the fall of 2020, VCU’s health sciences schools initiated several inaugural events to increase awareness of the health care needs…January 2021Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- Health disparities exact a devastating toll upon Indigenous people in the United States. However, there has been scant research investment to develop strategies to address these inequities in Indigenous health. We present a case for increased health promotion, prevention, and treatment research with Indigenous populations. providing context to the recent NIH investment in the Intervention…January 2021Policy and Practice
- The American health system is rife with gaps and inequities. The result is inadequate or no insurance and services for millions of families and unacceptable differences in resources and health conditions related to income, race, and location. Resources are misallocated, the health care infrastructure in many communities is inadequate, and our financial support for health coverage is disjointed…December 2020Social/Structural Determinants
- The goal of this study is to examine the effect of the Housing First model on expenditures by MassHealth, Massachusetts’ Medicaid program. Housing First offers chronically homeless individuals immediate housing as a foundation for the delivery of a range of other supportive services (e.g., mental health and/or substance use disorder services and social service supports). The Massachusetts Housing…December 2020Housing Discrimination, Healthy Housing
- Ros Beadle is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University (in Alice Springs). Despite extensive previous experience working in community development, Ros Beadle found herself out of her comfort zone when she first started to work as a community support worker in a very remote Australian Aboriginal community in 2009. As she indicates in this conversation with Ernie…October 2020Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- As states seek to address the social determinants of health and advance health equity, they face longstanding and persistent challenges in collecting complete, accurate, and consistent race, ethnicity and language (REL) data. This expert perspective provides an overview of current REL data collection standards; ideas for increasing completeness in data by engaging the enrollee and enrollment…October 2020Medicaid
- Darryl Kickett is a Noongah Aboriginal man with whom I worked for many years at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University in Western Australia. At a time when very few Aboriginal people entered university studies, we were able to work with a team at that Centre to develop culturally appropriate courses that not only saw hundreds of Aboriginal graduate, but also demonstrated the…October 2020Postsecondary Education
- The United States is the only developed nation that fails to guarantee any kind of paid leave to workers. We lack a national paid family and medical leave (PFML) policy that encompasses: (1) paid parental leave, which would apply to both mothers and fathers after the birth of a child, adoption of a child, or fostering a child; (2) paid family leave (PFL), which would apply to caregivers of a…September 2020Maternal/Child Health, Paid Family Leave
- Physicians still lack consensus on the meaning of race. When the Journal took up the topic in 2003 with a debate about the role of race in medicine, one side argued that racial and ethnic categories reflected underlying population genetics and could be clinically useful. Others held that any small benefit was outweighed by potential harms that arose from the long, rotten history of racism in…August 2020Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Racism
- Importance: Health disparities continue to exist despite the call to increase education of health care practitioners. An assessment of health disparities education has not been previously studied in a national cohort. Objective: To describe and compare the curriculum on health disparities from the perspective of program directors and perceptions of training among internal medicine residents.…August 2020Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Services & Programs
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