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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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- Climate change directly threatens human health, with substantial impacts on Indigenous peoples, who are uniquely vulnerable as climate-related events affect their practices, lifeways, self-determination, and physical and cultural health. At the same time, Indigenous communities are leading the way in innovative health-related climate change adaptation work, using traditional knowledges and novel…December 2020Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions, Climate Change, Environmental Injustice
- Building Healthy Communities (BHC) has been the signature initiative of The California Endowment (TCE) for the past 10 years. It has combined continuous investment in leadership and organizing capacity-building and advocacy campaigns in 14 historically disinvested communities, with related state-level and regional policy campaigns and coalition building. BHC has remained far from static in its…December 2020Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
- The goal of this study is to examine the effect of the Housing First model on expenditures by MassHealth, Massachusetts’ Medicaid program. Housing First offers chronically homeless individuals immediate housing as a foundation for the delivery of a range of other supportive services (e.g., mental health and/or substance use disorder services and social service supports). The Massachusetts Housing…December 2020Housing Discrimination, Healthy Housing
- Primary health care offers a cost–effective route to achieving universal health coverage (UHC). However, primary health-care systems are weak in many low- and middle-income countries and often fail to provide comprehensive, people-centred, integrated care. We analysed the primary health-care systems in 20 low- and middle-income countries using a semi-grounded approach. Options for strengthening…November 2020Services & Programs, Global Health
- UNC Health rapidly launched a mobile Covid testing unit to underserved community sites in May 2020 to provide targeted testing of uninsured Black and Latinx community members. We engaged with existing Black and Latinx community leaders to co-develop the program, converting a mobile vascular screening unit into a testing site and resource center for patients at risk. In the first three months, 2,…October 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Research has the potential to influence US social policy; however, existing research in this area lacks a coherent message. The Model for Dissemination of Research provides a framework through which to synthesize lessons learned from research to date on the process of translating research to US policymakers. (author abstract) #P4HEsummit2022October 2020Communication
- Policies that increase access to SNAP are related to reduced risk of food insecurity, particularly among economically vulnerable households.More widely available school breakfast may help offset food insecurity. Policies outside of food assistance—including length of unemployment insurance availability, generosity of EITC and potentially higher minimum wages —are linked to food security. A higher…October 2020Services & Programs, Systemic Determinants
- Research on the bi-directional relationship between mental health and homelessness is reviewed and extended to consider a broader global perspective, highlighting structural factors that contribute to housing instability and its mental ill health sequelae. Local, national and international initiatives to address housing and mental health include Housing First in Western countries and promising…October 2020Housing Discrimination, Healthy Housing
- Racial and ethnic disparities remain a public health problem and are largely due to social determinants of health (SDOH). Using an adapted 36-hour community health worker (CHW) curriculum, we trained 42 lay community residents in New Orleans, Louisiana, neighborhoods experiencing disparities in leadership and advocacy skills to address SDOH. Six months posttraining, 29 participants completed a…September 2020Advocacy, Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Social/Structural Determinants
- The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has revolutionized the practice of ambulatory medicine, triggering rapid dissemination of digital healthcare modalities, including synchronous video visits. However, social determinants of health, such as age, race, income, and others, predict readiness for telemedicine and individuals who are not able to connect virtually…September 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus, HIV, Policy and Practice
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