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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 this conversation, Marina Apgar, post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), and Mieke Snyder, research fellow at the IDS reflect on the effectiveness of two research for development programs: CLARISSA, a program focused on reducing the worst forms of child labor in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar, and Tomorrow's Cities, focused on reducing disaster risk for…October 2020Child Maltreatment, Disasters
- The inequities laid bare by COVID-19 underscore the importance of states’ efforts to develop policies and interventions to address all health disparities. Systemic racism, a driver of these inequities, also fuels disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality – Black women are four-times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women. States are on the frontlines, working to…October 2020Adverse Birth Outcomes, Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- As states seek to address the social determinants of health and advance health equity, they face longstanding and persistent challenges in collecting complete, accurate, and consistent race, ethnicity and language (REL) data. This expert perspective provides an overview of current REL data collection standards; ideas for increasing completeness in data by engaging the enrollee and enrollment…October 2020Medicaid
- At service design firm Moxie, Catherine Collins collaborates with nonprofits and companies focused on positive impact to understand what matters to their stakeholders and to act on that research. Previous collaborations range from understanding the experience employees at U.S. Bank Stadium have with homelessness, scaling Service Design at Cardinal Health, to re-imaging benefits with early…October 2020Services & Programs
- Recent events in American history are motivating people and institutions to reckon with the effects of persistent racism in American society. As recent posts on the IAPHS blog have highlighted, racism still exists in the U.S., and this has been made even clearer by the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been much discussion, particularly on academic Twitter, about how researchers can better use and…October 2020Services & Programs
- This article addresses the severe hunger crisis currently affecting America, the worst in decades. It discusses the root causes of the issue, including economic disparities, unemployment, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article proposes solutions to mitigate hunger, such as increasing government support for food assistance programs, strengthening food supply chains, improving access…October 2020Social/Structural Determinants
- As health researchers, we’re always looking for fresh approaches to ensure our work is relevant and useful to patients and their health care providers. One way we’ve tried to increase the relevance of our health-related research is by engaging with patients and communities as partners. A growing body of evidence shows that patients’ engagement can improve the feasibility, acceptability, and…September 2020Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Health Reform
- As states and counties grapple with containing the spread of COVID-19, they are learning that the virus places novel demands on contact-tracing efforts. Early experiences from states with contact-tracing programs suggest that a successful program needs to account for the economic circumstances of people infected, as well as their families; it needs to account for the emotional and psychological…September 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus
- As states and counties grapple with containing the spread of COVID-19, they are learning that the virus places novel demands on contact-tracing efforts. Early experiences from states with contact-tracing programs suggest that a successful program needs to account for the economic circumstances of people infected, as well as their families; it needs to account for the emotional and psychological…September 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus
- The patient experience is now globally recognized as an independent dimension of health-care quality. However, although patients, providers, health-care managers, and policy-makers agree on its importance, there is no standardized definition of the patient experience. A clear understanding of the basic concepts that make up the foundation of the patient experience is more important than a…August 2020Community-rooted/Participatory Research
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