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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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- This fact sheet discusses general principles for disaster mental health response, including the importance of identifying survivors with psychiatric disorders and providing them treatment. It also introduces frameworks for disaster mental health response, and case identification for posttraumatic stress disorder, the most common psychiatric disorder after disasters. (author description) #…March 2023Mental/Behavioral Health, Disasters
- The convergence of three major issues could make long-standing health inequities even more severe. Two years after the pandemic emerged, COVID-19 and global migration emergencies continue to affect society. At the same time, the health of the planet is deteriorating, and trust in our most established institutions is eroding. These developments have disproportionately affected people who have been…April 2022Social/Structural Determinants, Systemic Determinants, Sustainable Development
- Disadvantaged groups worldwide, such as low-income and racially/ethnically minoritized people, experience worse health outcomes than more privileged groups, including wealthier and white people. Such health disparities are a major public health issue in several countries around the world. In this systematic review, we examine whether green space shows stronger associations with physical health…March 2021Environmental Injustice, Sustainable Development
- Men and women, boys and girls have different experiences of disasters. Gender dynamics impact both the way they are affected by disasters and their capacity to withstand and recover from them. Gender inequalities can result in gender-differentiated disaster impact, and differentiated impacts can influence gender dynamics, which in turn affect future resilience to shocks.Disaster risk management…January 2021Social/Structural Determinants, Disasters, Resilience
- Group model building (GMB) is a qualitative method aimed at engaging stakeholders to collectively consider the causes of complex problems. Tackling inequities in community nutrition is one such complex problem, as the causes are driven by a variety of interactions between individual factors, social structures, local environments and the global food system. This methods paper describes a GMB…May 2020Sustainable Development
- Marcia Ostrom, Kathryn De Master, Egon Noe, and Markus Schermer recently compiled a special issue in The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food exploring values-based food chains in Europe and North America. This Special Issue shows that there is continued need to expand and celebrate values beyond monetary and business-related attitudes, including health, quality of life, and…May 2019Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Services & Programs, Global Health
- The Hewlett Foundation’s Global Development and Population Program's International Women’s Reproductive Health Strategy aims to achieve three outcomes: preventing unwanted pregnancies, eliminating deaths from unsafe abortions, and integrating family planning into broader development goals. Focusing on Francophone West Africa and East Africa, the program employs tools like behavioral economics and…April 2016Global Health
- International medical volunteerism among US practitioners is increasing each year, yet there is no single professional group, society or published universal framework for conducting such programs to ensure quality, effectiveness, and/or sustainability. This review seeks to assess existing literature that might inform a set of medical outreach best practices to enhance teams’ ability to improve…May 2013Global Health
- The World Health Organization developed the Handbook on health inequality monitoring: with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries to provide an overview for health inequality monitoring within low- and middle-income countries, and act as a resource for those involved in spearheading, improving or sustaining monitoring systems. The handbook was principally designed to be used by…January 2013Global Health
- Disasters—earthquakes, hurricanes, chemical explosions, wars, school shootings,mass casualty accidents, and acts of terrorism—can strike anyone, regardless of culture, ethnicity, or race. No one who experiences or witnesses a disaster is untouched by it.Peoples’ reactions to disaster and their coping skills, as well as their receptivity to crisis counseling, differ significantly because of their…October 2007Mental/Behavioral Health, Disasters
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