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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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- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals are often stigmatized and discriminated against. This population is expected to experience poorer mental health outcomes compared with heterosexual and cis-gendered people, a phenomenon healthcare providers need to take note of and act upon. This study aimed to explore and describe the mental health challenges of LGBT people. An…January 2021Isms and Phobias
- Inequities in dental care are prevalent across the United States, with significant disparities based on age, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Economic factors, such as ability to pay for dental insurance, and social factors such as food insecurity and access to nutritious food options also play a large role in oral health outcomes. In Michigan, state Medicaid medical and dental managed…January 2021Medicaid
- The four leading international health and humanitarian organizations announced today the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure outbreak response.The effort to establish the stockpile was led by the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision, which includes the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent…January 2021Vaccines
- The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing system problems of US health care ranging from access barriers, uncontrolled prices and costs, unacceptable quality, widespread disparities and inequities, and marginalization of public health. All of these have been well documented by international comparisons. Our largely privatized market-based system and medical-industrial complex have been ill…January 2021Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- Research has consistently demonstrated strong links between people’s health and societal sectors such as employment, community development, education, housing, and transportation. Efforts are underway nationwide to combine expertise and resources across multiple agencies and community partner organizations to help states more effectively address factors such as living environment, income level,…January 2021COVID-19/Coronavirus, Social/Structural Determinants
- Importance There has been little rigorous evidence to date comparing public vs private health insurance. With policy makers considering a range of policies to expand coverage, understanding the trade-offs between these coverage types is critical. Objective To compare months of coverage, utilization, quality, and costs between low-income adults with Medicaid vs those with subsidized private (…January 2021Medicaid
- Over the ten years of the Building Healthy Communities initiative (BHC), The California Endowment (TCE) cycled through multiple outcome frameworks as the terrain of the BHC work became more complex. Does that mean that TCE had no idea what we were doing? Or was the repeated swapping of one framework for another, a sign that we became a learning organization that was open to emergence, evolution,…January 2021Health Reform, Social Environment
- In April 2020, The Rockefeller Foundation and Boston University School of Public Health launched the Commission on Health Determinants, Data, and Decision-Making (3-D Commission) with the aim of creating a common language among social determinants of health (SDoH), data science, and decision-making toward the end of improving the health of populations and addressing health disparities caused by…January 2021Social/Structural Determinants
- Health disparities exact a devastating toll upon Indigenous people in the United States. However, there has been scant research investment to develop strategies to address these inequities in Indigenous health. We present a case for increased health promotion, prevention, and treatment research with Indigenous populations. providing context to the recent NIH investment in the Intervention…January 2021Policy and Practice
- The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) serves a Veteran population that is diverse. Equitable access to high-quality care for all Veterans is a major tenet of the VA healthcare mission. The Office of Health Equity (OHE) champions the elimination of health disparities and achieving health equity for all Veterans. HEALTH DISPARITIES Smoking is a significant health problem for Veterans and remains…January 2021Environment/Context
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