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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 inequity is real, and it can be seen in statistics that show there are more than 74,000 excess deaths among Black people compared with white people each year in the 30 largest American cities. This includes the home of the AMA’s headquarters, Chicago, where racial inequities in mortality rates result in an average of 3,804 excess deaths among Black people a year compared to white people,…February 2023Services & Programs, Racism
- On September 22, 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Health Literacy hosted the first of three public workshops in a series titled “The Roles of Trust and Health Literacy in Achieving Health Equity.” The first workshop in the series explored how using health literacy best practices in clinical settings might impact trust in health care institutions…February 2023Policy and Practice
- Background: Clinical algorithms that incorporate race as a modifying factor to guide clinical decision-making have recently been criticized for propagating racial bias in medicine. Equations used to calculate lung or kidney function are examples of clinical algorithms that have different diagnostic parameters depending on an individual’s race. While these clinical measures have multiple…February 2023Policy and Practice, Racism
- The 2023 State of WIC report – supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation – centers infant feeding, economic equity, and modernization of the WIC program. It brings lessons learned in 2022 to the forefront of the conversation on reforms, innovation, and policy. This report assesses the infant formula crisis, USDA’s proposed food package rule, and WIC’s role in building a healthier future for all. (…February 2023Adolescent Health, Services & Programs
- Importance: The prevalence of obesity among youths 2 to 19 years of age in the US from 2017 to 2018 was 19.3%; previous studies suggested that school lunch consumption was associated with increased obesity. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA) strengthened nutritional standards of school-based meals. Objective: To evaluate the association between the HHFKA and youth body mass…February 2023Maternal/Child Health, Policy & Law
- From 2020 to 2021, life expectancy at birth in the United States dropped from 77.0 to 76.1 years, the lowest level in more than 2 decades. This decrease was largely driven by the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic and unintentional injuries, including opioid overdose deaths. The most dramatic drop was among non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people at 1.9 years; in 2021, AI/AN people…February 2023Interventions
- Culturally competent healthcare is person-centered: it considers the person's preferences as well as their unique experience from a cultural perspective. This perspective is particularly important in light of longtime racism and inequities experienced by people from historically marginalized groups. (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarOctober2024February 2023Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
- The United States is the only country among 41 higher-income nations that does not guarantee any paid leave for new parents or to care for a sick family member.This issue brief provides background on federal and state paid family leave (PFL) policies, highlights domestic and international research that shows PFL provides a range of benefits, and lays out principles for a universal paid family…February 2023Paid Family Leave
- Much attention has been focused on the importance of providing physical and mental health services to students in educational environments in recent years; this was true before the COVID-19 pandemic and is even more pertinent now. Millions of students receive school-based health services, and for many students, schools are their first and only option to receive health care. At least 70% of…February 2023Services & Programs, Education
- What is Plain Language?Plain language is communication that is clear, accessible, and useful.How Can Plain Language Advance Public Health?Effective public health communications is critical to help people stay informed and make decisions about their health. Information about public health can be confusing, jargony, and fast-changing, so communicating in plain language helps to translate and…February 2023Communication
- Over 100 million Americans face barriers to accessing primary care, according to a new study by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) and HealthLandscape at the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The estimated number of Americans who are medically disenfranchised—at risk of lacking access to primary care due to an inadequate supply in their local community—has…February 2023Services & Programs
- Community-based organizations (CBOs) fill a critical role in acting as public health partners and trusted resources for their communities, especially in an emergency. The CDC Foundation, an independent, nonprofit organization, used trust-based philanthropy to manage more than 110 COVID-19 grants focused on equitable vaccine information, outreach, and access. The CDC Foundation team uses a trust-…January 2023Policy and Practice
- Within government, policy and programmatic changes are often made without engaging the people they will affect or the people currently experiencing the challenges of existing policies and programs. By comparison, software developers rely on end-user testing to refine their products and marketing and communications professionals leverage focus groups to identify effective messaging strategies.…January 2023Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Services & Programs
- Over the last year, we’ve been developing an audience-narrative architecture that can help the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and its partners find “narrative strategies” and actual storytelling that would activate people in the U.S. to dismantle structural racism in America’s healthcare and public health systems. We developed the target narrative above for the third and final phase of…January 2023Communication
- Background: Community health needs and assets assessment is a means of identifying and describing community health needs and resources, serving as a mechanism to gain the necessary information to make informed choices about community health. The current review of the literature was performed in order to shed more light on concepts, rationale, tools and uses of community health needs and assets…January 2023Policy and Practice, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- The pandemic exposed already existing inequities in our healthcare system when it comes to race, sex, and socioeconomic status as Black, Hispanic, AIAN, and NHOPI people experienced higher rates of COVID-19 cases and deaths than White people. They were at about one and a half times greater risk of COVID-19 infection, and about twice as likely to die from the virus, than their White counterparts.…January 2023Communication
- Background Although preventable through screening, cervical cancer incidence and mortality are higher among American Indian and Alaska Native women (AIAN) than White women. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansions may uniquely impact access and use of cervical cancer screening among AIAN women and ultimately alleviate this disparity. Methods Using Medicaid…January 2023Cancer, Medicaid
- During the 2022-2023 academic year, the Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership provided opportunities for McCourt School graduate students to join the Center and conduct independent research. Hyla Jacobson served as a Pablo Eisenberg Public Interest Research Fellow, writing a case study on the Headwaters Foundation’s trust-based evaluation process.Through her research on Headwaters Foundation…January 2023Policy and Practice
- The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates global spending on healthcare at $6.5 trillion, approximately 10.5% of the world’s gross domestic product. The United States’ (US) share of that spending is $2.6 trillion, essentially quadrupling since 1980. The 2010 United States Patient Medicaid is the nation’s primary health insurance program for people with disabilities, but it is so much more…January 2023Medicaid
- DPC performs work in healthcare advocacy, expert policy analysis, and participatory research to help support the community. They strive to share the perspectives of people with disabilities and make Massachusetts more accessible and inclusive. This booklet shares DPC's top legislative priorities, budget priorities, and other bills that they support.January 2023Policy and Practice
- Our Mission: NBEC creates transnational solutions that optimize Black maternal, infant, sexual, and reproductive wellbeing. We shift systems and culture through training, research, technical assistance, policy, advocacy, and community-centered collaboration. Our Vision: All Black mamas, their babies, and their villages THRIVE. (abbreviated author introduction) #P4HEwebinarMay2022January 2023Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions increased preconception and postpartum insurance coverage among low-income birthing people, leading to greater use of outpatient care. In this study we evaluated whether the expansions affected rates of postpartum hospitalization. Our analyses took advantage of underused longitudinal hospital data from the period 2010–17 to examine…January 2023Adverse Birth Outcomes, Medicaid
- An intellectual-developmental disorder shouldn’t be a barrier to receiving personalized and effective support. In addition to our e-learning courses, webinars, and materials, we are the sole developer and distributor of the Health Risk Screening Tool (HRST), the most widely used and validated health risk screening tool for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. (author…January 2023Policy and Practice
- Practicing clinicians are calling for it to be “mandatory for all medical students.” The Curriculum in IDD Healthcare (CIDDH) teaches the fundamentals of IDD healthcare, providing learners with pertinent, practical information that can be used immediately in their practices to improve outcomes, reduce suffering, and prevent unnecessary death in their patients with intellectual and developmental…January 2023Services & Programs
- Health care payments have a broad spectrum. Every patient has unique circumstances, and every practice has its own payment procedure. You need to ensure your family has access to the medical attention they need that is also affordable. Many practices utilize a sliding fee scale. It makes payments easier and helps coordinate your bottom line. More importantly, it keeps your family safe as you…January 2023Services & Programs
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