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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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- In the month since I started at GIH, the world as we know it has drastically changed. Across the globe, nearly 2.5 million people have tested positive for COVID-19 and over 166,000 have died, including roughly 40,000 Americans. In this new reality, we have been asked to stay at home, and to cover our faces in public. Those of us who are fortunate are working from home. Children are adjusting to…April 2020Policy & Law
- The coronavirus pandemic continues to draw an ever-wider range of public policy responses across the United States, from the expansion of unemployment and paid leave benefits to temporary reprieves from student loan payments, evictions, and municipal water service shut-offs. Such actions reflect a recognition that virtually all government branches and agencies can contribute to controlling this…April 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus
- Community engagement (CE) interventions include a range of approaches to involve communities in the improvement of their health and wellbeing. Working with communities defined by location or some other shared interest, these interventions may be important in assisting equity and reach of communicable disease control (CDC) in low and lower-middle income countries (LLMIC). We conducted an umbrella…April 2020Communicable Disease, Sustainable Development
- Recently the president said the worst was over and the pandemic was on the decline. I do not agree. I am especially worried about the poorest region of the nation, the region that I recently moved to: the South. (author introduction)April 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus
- As COVID-19-related quarantines were being implemented across America, homelessness researchers were estimating the immediate needs of people experiencing homelessness. They concluded that $11.5 billion is necessary for 400,000 new shelter beds needed to accommodate everyone who is unsheltered and to ensure appropriate social distancing, andthe creation of quarantine locations for the sick and…March 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus, Social/Structural Determinants
- Medical Legal Partnerships (MLPs) are a multidisciplinary approach to providing direct civil legal services in order to address health harming legal needs. This Essay will provide background and context for the development of MLPs as a tool of legal services provision by looking at to two models utilized at Legal Aid Chicago: The Health Justice Project, and Health Forward/Salud Adelante. Each…March 2020Health Reform, Environmental/Community Health
- One in five Americans lives in a rural area, including about 18 million women of reproductive age, but key indicators, including mortality figures, show that the health of mothers and children in these communities lags behind that of their urban peers and is worsening. Nationwide, child mortality rates have declined over the past decade, but recent research shows that improvement among infants…February 2020Maternal/Child Health
- Billions of dollars are lost annually in health research that fails to create meaningful benefits for patients. Engaging in research co-design – the meaningful involvement of end-users in research – may help address this research waste. This rapid overview of reviews addressed three related questions, namely (1) what approaches to research co-design exist in health settings? (2) What activities…February 2020Health Reform, Services & Programs
- Pregnancy-related deaths among American women have risen markedly over the past 30 years, despite an overall downward trend worldwide. Many of these deaths are preventable, and the risk remains three to four times higher for black women than white women at all levels of income or education. Maternal mortality—a key measure of health care quality—is typically defined as the death of a woman during…January 2020Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- The concept of sleep health provides a positive holistic framing of multiple sleep characteristics, including sleep duration, continuity, timing, alertness, and satisfaction. Sleep health promotion is an underrecognized public health opportunity with implications for a wide range of critical health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, obesity, mental health, and neurodegenerative disease.…January 2020Chronic Disease, Social/Structural Determinants
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