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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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- On June 1, 2019, to commemorate World Pride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the NYC AIDS Memorial will debut its newest site-specific art installation, Visual Impact: On Art, AIDS, and Activism. Situated adjacent to the Memorial Park on Greenwich Avenue, and presented in partnership with the NYC Department of Transportation’s Art Program, the educational exhibition showcases…June 2019HIV, Advocacy
- 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 private and public sectors are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) systems and machine learning algorithms to automate simple and complex decision-making processes. The mass-scale digitization of data and the emerging technologies that use them are disrupting most economic sectors, including transportation, retail, advertising, and energy, and other areas. AI is also having…May 2019Policy and Practice
- The long-term effects of redlining, which for decades was used to justify discriminatory mortgage lending practices, may be impacting the current health of affected communities, suggests new research from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco. An analysis of eight California cities shows that residents of historically redlined neighborhoods are…May 2019Asthma, Zoning
- Objectives: Language barriers pose challenges in terms of achieving high levels of satisfaction among medical professionals and patients, providing high- quality healthcare and maintaining patient safety. To address these challenges, many larger healthcare institutions offer interpreter services to improve healthcare access, patient satisfaction, and communication. However, these services…May 2019Health Reform
- Background: Community participation is widely believed to be beneficial to the development, implementation and evaluation of health services. However, many challenges to successful and sustainable community involvement remain. Importantly, there is little evidence on the effect of community participation in terms of outcomes at both the community and individual level. Our systematic review seeks…May 2019Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Policy & Law, Services & Programs
- Purpose: We examined coalition health equity capacity using a three-dimensional conceptual framework in a 3-year study (2011–2014) of 28 local coalitions engaged in health promotion. Methods: Coalition health equity capacity was defined according to (1) conceptual foundations, (2) collective action and impact, and (3) civic orientation. This framework was used to qualitatively assess progress in…April 2019Services & Programs, Systemic Determinants
- Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation (SCALE) was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded initiative from 2015–2017 to build capability of 24 community coalitions to advance health, wellbeing, and equity. The SCALE theory of change had three components: develop leadership capability, build relationships within and between communities, and create an inter-community…April 2019Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- The determinants of health inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations include factors amenable to medical education’s influence—for example, the competence of the medical workforce to provide effective and equitable care to Indigenous populations. Medical education institutions have an important role to play in eliminating these inequities. However, there is evidence that…April 2019Interventions, Systemic Determinants
- Purpose of Review: We review recent community interventions to promote mental health and social equity. We define community interventions as those that involve multi-sector partnerships, emphasize community members as integral to the intervention, and/or deliver services in community settings. We examine literature in seven topic areas: collaborative care, early psychosis, school-based…March 2019Mental/Behavioral Health, Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
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