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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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  • Despite polling consistently showing that voters are deeply concerned about medical care and its costs, neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris is offering a sweeping vision of health care reform. (author introduction)
    November 2024
    Health Reform
  • The AAMC Collaborative for Health Equity: Act, Research, Generate Evidence (CHARGE) cultivates the health equity community by advancing collaborative research, policy, and programmatic solutions to health and health care inequities. The vision of AAMC CHARGE is an equitable and just society in which academic health centers and their multisector and community partners: Prioritize health…
    November 2023
    Health Reform, Services & Programs
  • Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) is a peer-reviewed public health journal sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and authored by experts worldwide. PCD was established in 2004 by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion with a mission to promote dialogue among researchers, practitioners, and policy makers worldwide on the integration and…
    July 2023
    Health Reform
  • Most agree health disparities are a moral problem. Yet there are disagreements about how to reduce them. Some believe that in health systems, equity and efficiency are incompatible, requiring  stark and painful tradeoffs. Others, myself included, believe that achieving equitable health outcomes can, in fact, be accomplished by improving efficiency. The existing structure of the US…
    May 2023
    Health Reform
  • The ubiquity of social and online media networks, the credulousness of online communities, coupled with limited accountability pose a risk of mis-, dis-, mal-, information (mis-dis-mal-information)—the intentional or unintentional spread of false, misleading and right information related to agri-food topics. However, agri-food mis-dis-malinformation in social media and online digital agricultural…
    March 2023
    Health Reform
  • The emergence and increasing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in healthcare practice and delivery is being greeted with both optimism and caution. We focus on the nexus of AI/ML and racial disparities in healthcare: an issue that must be addressed if the promise of AI to improve patient care and health outcomes is to be realized in an equitable manner for all…
    March 2023
    Health Reform, Isms and Phobias
  • In this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, speakers addressed three key issues:Challenges in the health care system the come from devaluing the knowledge of parents who have children with disabilities,How a "Rewrite the Script" process can help create health equity allies to address challenges, andWhat it means to go from story-telling to story-…
    December 2022
    Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Health Reform
  • Many racialized health inequities in the USA have been known for decades. However, academic medicine, individual clinicians, and larger healthcare systems have not yet supported action towards sufficient and meaningful solutions, as evidenced by the persistence of racialized health inequities over time. Recently, academic medicine is increasing efforts to unequivocally identify systemic racism as…
    October 2022
    Communication, Health Reform
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated longstanding racial disparities in health in the United States and highlighted the need to address inequities across a range of health system functions. All countries face their own unique inequities in health status or in the distribution of health care resources among different population groups. We looked at how eight high-income countries (Australia,…
    September 2022
    Health Reform
  • The growing centering of equity in health has elevated a conversation about how those interests should translate within the systems and sectors that influence health. In particular, the public health data system has been relatively limited in capturing the drivers and consequences of health inequity as well as the varying dimensions of equity. This article examines what it means to use equity as…
    September 2022
    Health Reform, Environment/Context
  • Inequities across the US health system limit underserved people’s access to affordable, high-quality care, create avoidable costs and financial waste that span society, and impact every individual’s potential to achieve health and well-being. To understand how far-reaching this issue is, Deloitte’s actuarial team developed a model to quantify the link between health care spending and health care…
    June 2022
    Health Reform, Services & Programs
  • For health system leaders who have been thinking or talking about how to create health equity in their organizations, an AMA toolkit outlines five concrete steps to help turn words into actions. The AMA STEPS Forward™ toolkit was developed in partnership with strategic consulting firm HealthBegins to help physicians and other health professionals in mid-sized and large health care delivery…
    May 2022
    Health Reform
  • There’s a lot to fix about America’s broken systems. One of the most important is healthcare. In the ongoing fight for racial justice, we must call on those in power to center the fight for equity around health. For too long, our country’s racist infrastructure has overburdened the physical and mental health of our communities. Without access to quality healthcare, people of color will not be…
    April 2022
    Advocacy, Health Reform
  • Background: Poor diet is a leading cause of premature death and thus diet and lifestyle changes are needed; yet, no consensus exists regarding diets that provide the greatest benefit. One of these diets gaining popularity around the world is a plant-based, vegan diet. Recently, Netflix documentaries What the Health (2017) and The Game Changers (2019) have attempted to improve public awareness of…
    March 2022
    Health Reform
  • Medical-legal partnerships effectively mitigate some social determinants of health impacting pediatric populations, reducing hospitalizations by over a third, according to the latest data in Health Affairs emailed to journalists. Particularly, medical-legal partnerships can help children and their families ameliorate issues like potential eviction, denial of public benefits…
    March 2022
    Health Reform, Social Environment
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated and amplified the harsh reality of health inequities experienced by racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States. Members of these groups have disproportionately been infected and died from COVID-19, yet they still lack equitable access to treatment and vaccines. Lack of equitable access to high-quality health care is in large part a result of…
    February 2022
    Vaccine Access and Uptake, Health Reform, Racism
  • Issue: Despite enduring racism and the need for greater racial equity, there is limited consensus among analysts, academics, and public officials on how to assess policy for its impact on racial equity. Without instructive conceptual frameworks, our ability to identify, examine, and eradicate racial inequity through health policy will be limited. Goal: To establish a conceptually nuanced,…
    January 2022
    Health Reform, Services & Programs
  • The private practice of psychiatry is in slow decline, and collaborative care will be its replacement. This is an inevitable result of the reality that there are too few psychiatrists being trained to cover the psychiatric needs of a growing population; increased rates of depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders across the population; and reduced stigma, which previously served as a…
    December 2021
    Mental/Behavioral Health, Health Reform
  • Background: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people present poorer mental and physical health results compared to the heterosexual and cisgender population. There are barriers in the healthcare system that increase these health inequities.Objective: To synthesise the available evidence on how nurses can intervene in reducing health inequities in LGBT people, identifying their…
    November 2021
    Chronic Disease, Mental/Behavioral Health, Health Reform, Social/Structural Determinants
  • WHO defines health equity as “the absence of unfair and avoidable or remediable differences in health among population groups defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically or by other means of stratification”. Yet, contrary to this fundamental aspiration and the international mandate on universal health coverage (UHC), almost 50% of the world’s population does not receive…
    September 2021
    Health Reform, Services & Programs
  • The use of quality measurement to identify opportunities for improvement in how, where, and when care is delivered has driven remarkable advances and saved countless lives. At the same time, persistent racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care call attention to a striking need to address equity more directly in our health care infrastructure. Harnessing quality measurement as a tool…
    September 2021
    Health Reform, Racism
  • Come October, the maximum benefit levels in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program) will be based on the market basket costs of the 2021 Thrifty Food Plan. The result will be an increase of 21 percent — about 40 cents per person per meal — in the maximum SNAP benefit over the pre-pandemic amount. Because the 21 percent increase will go into effect at…
    August 2021
    Health Reform
  • The Biden administration is calling for the whole of government to advance an equity agenda. The administration wants to "allocate resources to address the historic failure to invest sufficiently, justly, and equally in underserved communities, as well as individuals from those communities,” according to an executive order dated January 20, 2021. At the same time, social and racial justice…
    July 2021
    Health Reform
  • In this report, The Rockefeller Foundation presents the true cost of food in the U.S., which measures the costs of our food system today to our health, environment, and society. After publishing our July 2020 “Reset the Table” report, we spent the past several months working with experts and advocates across the field to model the impact of the U.S. food system. The result is a national analysis—…
    July 2021
    Health Reform
  • “This study highlights the extent to which health care inequities are intertwined with other social inequities, such as employment and education,” says Vanessa Volpe, corresponding author of the study and an assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State University. “This helps explain why health inequities are so intractable. Tackling health care inequities will require us to address…
    June 2021
    Health Reform, Racism

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