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- The U.S. and the state of Colorado are more racially diverse than ever. Thirty years from now, it’s expected that fewer than half of Americans will be white, according to Manuel Pastor, PhD, director of the program for environmental and regional equity at the University of Southern California, citing census data. What’s driving this change isn’t immigration but births; people of color are younger…August 2017Classism, Racism
- Introduction The United States continues to become more racially and ethnically diverse, and racial/ethnic minority communities encounter sociocultural barriers to quality health care, including implicit racial/ethnic bias among health care providers. In response, health care organizations are developing and implementing cultural competency curricula. Using a community-based participatory…August 2017Services & Programs, Racism
- The formation of hospital-community partnerships to improve health and well-being is becoming widespread across the United States, with many hospitals taking a lead role in initiating and fostering these partnerships. This collaborative approach is effective because many different community organizations are addressing similar issues and serving the same populations. Collaboration creates an…July 2017Policy and Practice
- Build alliances with community partners to protect against risk and build community power. Health departments play a convening role that can be used to advance health equity. Community partners and the health department can develop alliances or networks that collectively and powerfully advance equity by increasing awareness, advocating for policy and systems change, and ensuring…June 2017Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
- Massachusetts state law includes a tremendous opportunity for city and town disability commissions to make their communities more accessible and more inclusive of people with disabilities. By persuading local government to adopt section 22G, commissions get access to the money collected from fines when individuals park illegally in accessible parking spaces (previously known as Handicapped…June 2017Advocacy
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has described oral health disparities in the United States as “profound.” Your race, socioeconomic status, gender or where you live are all related to your risk of having untreated tooth decay, periodontitis and other oral health problems. (author introduction)June 2017Health Reform
- With an eye toward understanding how to achieve greater equity through interventions both inside and outside the health services sector, in 2016 Health Affairs launched a multi-year project to examine and overcome the factors that contribute to disparities in health and health care. The results of the first phase of this work are contained in the recently released June 2017 issue of the journal…June 2017Social/Structural Determinants
- Leaders of health care organizations need to be prepared to improve quality and achieve equity in today’s health care environment characterized by a focus on achieving value and addressing disparities in a diverse population. To help address this need, the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital launched the Disparities Leadership Program in 2007. The leadership program is…June 2017Services & Programs
- Life expectancy and disease rates in the United States differ starkly among Americans depending on their demographic characteristics and where they live. Although health care systems are taking important steps to reduce inequities, meaningful progress requires interventions outside the clinic, in sectors such as employment, housing, transportation, and public safety. Inequities exist in each of…June 2017Social/Structural Determinants
- We used the Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Across the US (REACH US) Risk Factor Survey from 2009 through 2012 to examine the association between body mass index (BMI, calculated as kg/m2) and 3 cardiovascular disease risk factors among Chinese Americans in New York City. We used traditional BMI cut points and cut points modified for the Asian population. Compared with normal/…May 2017Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Too many special education students are at risk of leaving high school unprepared for the future. That’s my conclusion after making a deep dive into their backgrounds and experiences for a national study.Consider these facts:Special education students are half as likely as their peers to take college entrance tests such as the SAT.They are less likely to have paid work experience, despite…May 2017Education
- In 2014, under the leadership of Commissioner of Health Dr. Mary T. Bassett, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene made advancing health equity a clearly articulated agency goal. Since then, the Health Department has launched a multi-faceted internal reform effort called Race to Justice, which aims to build our organizational capacity to advance health equity. Racial equity…May 2017Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- In a report designed to increase consensus around meaning of health equity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) provides the following definition: “Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to…May 2017Policy and Practice, Social Environment
- The University of Maryland’s Office of Policy and Planning in collaboration with urban and rural community partners, planned and implemented a model for community-academic engagement (CAE) in partnered research and programs. The model addressed health disparities, cancer and tobacco-related diseases, and public trust in research. Environments have flourished that resulted in bidirectional…April 2017Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- This inaugural volume in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health book series explores topics including: efforts to address disparities in health and achieve health equity; strategies for identifying solutions to persistent health and health care issues to better future policy and practice; explorations of the connections between policing and urban design and health and well-being;…April 2017Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- The project team evaluated the impact of the implementation of an increased minimum wage ordinance in the early childhood education (ECE) setting. The team examined how changes to the minimum wage affected the health of ECE providers and how provider health relates to the quality of the ECE environment. The study was designed to compare minimum wage change outcomes over time in Seattle, WA and…April 2017Early Childhood Education
- The proposal for a global health treaty aimed at health equity, the Framework Convention on Global Health, raises the fundamental question of whether we can achieve true health equity, globally and domestically, and if not, how close we can come. Considerable knowledge currently exists about the measures required to, at the least, greatly improve health equity. Why, then, do immense inequities…February 2017Advocacy, Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Systemic Determinants
- With so many challenges in finding equitable ways for Coloradans to live, it should come as no surprise there are troubling challenges in finding equitable ways to die. Deep questions of how Colorado values individual lives and freedoms, and how to assure fairness in the most daunting of medical situations, were not solved when voters in November overwhelmingly passed Proposition 106 to legalize…February 2017Medicaid, Frailty
- Purpose: The purpose of this guide is to provide a tool that anyone can use to convene, host, and facilitate a conversation with members of their community on how to collaborate and act to achieve health equity. Content: The guide is based on interviews with thought leaders, representing many of the sectors and systems that have played a role in the health and well-being of individuals and…February 2017Policy and Practice
- 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
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