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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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- Efforts to improve health in the U.S. have traditionally looked to the health care system as the key driver of health and health outcomes. However, there has been increased recognition that improving health and achieving health equity will require broader approaches that address social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health. This brief provides an overview of these social…May 2018Social/Structural Determinants
- The series engaged a wide audience, including public health lawyers as well as practitioners in health and planning departments, school districts, and health-oriented organizations and coalitions. Community champions — teachers, parents, and youth — also exchanged valuable insights in these trainings. We believe these sessions will leave you inspired and prepared to tackle challenges in…April 2018Environment/Context, Environmental/Community Health, Sustainable Development
- Funders that care about health equity have come a long way in the last 20 years. They increasingly emphasize social determinants of health, think intentionally about how to work with communities, and want to make sure those relationships are more authentic and driven by community priorities.The next frontier for health philanthropy is to squarely name and redress power imbalances and systems of…April 2018Services & Programs
- Objectives: Although a range of factors shapes health and well-being, institutionalized racism (societal allocation of privilege based on race) plays an important role in generating inequities by race. The goal of this analysis was to review the contemporary peer-reviewed public health literature from 2002-2015 to determine whether the concept of institutionalized racism was named (ie, explicitly…April 2018Systemic Determinants, Racism
- Objective: To delineate the factors inherent in caring for patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) that lead to complexity and to provide perspectives and techniques mapped to the phases of the clinical encounter.Sources of information: The authors of the physical health section of the 2018 Canadian consensus guidelines on the primary care of adults with IDD consisted of…April 2018Policy and Practice
- Objective: To update the 2011 Canadian guidelines for primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).Methods: Family physicians and other health professionals experienced in the care of people with IDD reviewed and synthesized recent empirical, ecosystem, expert, and experiential knowledge. A system was developed to grade the strength of recommendations.…April 2018Policy and Practice
- Throughout this summer and fall, thousands of advocates urged their federal legislators to reauthorize the Children Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Advocates wrote or contacted their legislators, urged others to take similar action, and publicized the importance of CHIP. These sustained advocacy efforts were widely recognized as key to Congress’ extension of CHIP this winter – an important…March 2018Advocacy
- Over 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons every year. They reenter their communities with a set of complex needs and challenging vulnerabilities, including chronic physical and behavioral health conditions, unstable housing, and impediments to finding and retaining quality jobs. Many struggle to reintegrate and a large share are rearrested or reincarcerated within a…March 2018Criminal History, Services & Programs
- Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory is appealing as a conceptual tool for guiding public mental health interventions. However, his theory underwent significant changes since its first inception during the late 1970s until his death in 2005, due to which the implications that can be drawn might differ depending on what concepts (i.e. early or later) of the theory is utilized. The aim of this paper…March 2018Mental/Behavioral Health
- Public health scholarship increasingly recognizes community organizing as a vehicle for unleashing the collective power necessary to uproot socioeconomic inequities at the core of health disparities. In this article we reverse the analytical focus from how organizing can affect health equity, and we consider how the frame of health equity has shaped grassroots organizing. Using evidence from a…March 2018Advocacy, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- In 2016, the Hogg Foundation started its Mental Health Peer Policy Fellows Grant Program to fund the recruitment and training of certified peer specialists, who utilize their lived experience of mental illness to analyze mental health policy for organizations across the state. Latasha Taylor, a member of that cohort and a mental health organizer at Grassroots Leadership, talked with Into the Fold…February 2018Mental/Behavioral Health, Advocacy
- The Best Babies Zone (BBZ) Initiative, launched in 2012 with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is a place-based, multi-site, multi-sector approach to reducing disparities in infant mortality and birth outcomes. Through community mobilization and local partnerships, the Initiative aims to increase health equity by supporting solutions driven by resident needs in neighborhoods most impacted…February 2018Maternal/Child Health
- Last Thursday, in an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers, President Trump is reported to have made a derogatory statement about immigrants, and their places of origin. White House sources say the context for the remarks had been the President expressing frustration at the US protecting immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and Africa. Trump reportedly expressed his desire for the US to instead…January 2018Racism
- Adults with higher educational attainment live healthier and longer lives compared to their less educated peers. The disparities are large and widening. We posit that understanding the educational and macro-level contexts in which this association occurs is key to reducing health disparities and improving population health. In this paper, we briefly review and critically assess the current state…January 2018Postsecondary Education
- The 2018 AAMC Social Justice Behind and Beyond the Bars: Criminal Justice Health and Academic Medicine Community Engagement Toolkit features videos, resources, and discussion questions that community members and academic health centers can use to:Understand the critical issues in correctional healthUnderstand the role of policy and the social determinants of health in creating and perpetuating…January 2018Environment/Context
- The project team is developing plausible estimates of the causal effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on infant and child outcomes. The investigators focus on the effects of WIC on children after they are born; spillover effects from targeted children to other family members who are not directly eligible for the programs; and on the effects…January 2018Early Adulthood, Services & Programs
- Since Andrew Carnegie established the first US charitable foundation in 1911, grantmakers have fought hard to address entrenched social problems. Billions of charitable gifts have gone to feed the hungry, house the homeless, heal the sick, and educate the underserved. For the better part of a century, responsive giving to address existing needs was the preferred approach for philanthropy. …January 2018Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- Where an individual chooses to live can have a profound effect on their short- and long-term health. “Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities Across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States,” a paper by Murray et al. (2006), examines the gap in life expectancies found in different parts of the United States in order to more fully elucidate issues related to health…January 2018Environment/Context, Environmental/Community Health
- Most racial/ethnic minority groups overall have similar — or in some cases, fewer — mental disorders than whites. However, the consequences of mental illness in minorities may be long lasting. (author description)December 2017Mental/Behavioral Health
- To what degree does a newly rehabbed apartment help decrease emergency room visits for an asthmatic child?What are the barriers to improving community residents’ access to healthy foods?How do neighborhood amenities and safety factors influence a family’s outdoor activities?The answers to questions like these are increasingly sought-after by grantmakers and community-based service providers…November 2017Policy and Practice
- HealthEquityGuide.org is a resource with inspiring examples of how health departments have concretely advanced health equity — both internally within their departments and externally with communities and other government agencies. This website includes: A set of Strategic Practices to advance health equity in local health departments Key actions health departments can take to advance…November 2017Health Reform, Services & Programs
- Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) are pivotal factors influencing health outcomes beyond medical interventions. While clinicians recognize their impact, challenges such as expertise boundaries and evidence gaps persist. Yet, healthcare is increasingly integrating SDoH into practice through community partnerships and new payment models emphasizing outcomes. This abstract explores the evolving…October 2017Social/Structural Determinants
- The Colorado Trust recognizes the essential role of advocacy and policy change in achieving health equity for all Coloradans. To this end, The Colorado Trust’s Health Equity Advocacy (HEA) strategy aims to establish a field of health equity advocates who can strategically promote policy changes addressing social, economic and environmental determinants of health. (author introduction)August 2017Environmental/Community Health
- By providing data on union coverage, activities, and impacts, this report helps explain how unions fit into the economy today; how they affect workers, communities, occupations and industries, and the country at large; and why collective bargaining is essential for a fair and prosperous economy and a vibrant democracy. It also describes how decades of anti-union campaigns and policies have made…August 2017Services & Programs
- The world of community development is often complex, requiring savvy professionals able to navigate a complicated web of interdependent issues such as housing, generational poverty, financial capability, social and economic mobility, employment and education. As community development professionals, we trade in systems—systems of complex social problems hosting many different actors, policies,…August 2017Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Environmental/Community Health
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