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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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- Health care organizations have increasingly acknowledged the presence of health care disparities across race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, but significantly fewer have made health equity for diverse patients a true priority. Lack of financial incentives is a major barrier to achieving health equity. To create a business case for equity, governmental and private payors can: 1) Require health…February 2016Health Reform, Services & Programs
- In 2015, The Colorado Trust invited experts in health equity to share their knowledge and raise awareness of the issues that lead to health disparities. In this report, we examine the structures, policies and systems that unintentionally marginalize vulnerable communities. We learn how race impacts health, and the changes needed to improve the health status of all Americans. And we demonstrate…February 2016Services & Programs, Social Environment
- In May 2014, the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA67.24 on Follow-up of the Recife Political Declaration on Human Resources for Health: renewed commitments towards universal health coverage. In paragraph 4(2) of that resolution, Member States requested the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop and submit a new global strategy for human…January 2016Policy and Practice
- From San Francisco, California to Flint, Michigan, the nation is facing an escalating housing crisis. Skyrocketing rents, inadequate infrastructure and stagnant wages are some of the barriers that are preventing millions of low-income Americans and communities of color from reaching their full potential. Healthy Communities of Opportunity: An Equity Blueprint to Address America’s Housing…January 2016Physical Environment, Healthy Housing
- National surveys have estimated that 2%–11% of Americans self-identify as LGBTQ,1 yet as a population, these individuals have historically been underrepresented in addiction research. As scientists have worked over the past three decades to remediate this gap, substance use characteristics and treatment factors present among the LGBTQ population have begun to emerge.January 2016Substance Use and Misuse
- I spent the last week of October in California for PolicyLink’s Equity Summit 2015. Thousands gathered in Los Angeles, creating an incredible opportunity for fresh perspectives and innovative ideas toward making equity a nationwide reality. The agenda included talks ranging from climate work to arts and culture to criminal justice reform.Every attendee was well aware of the attractiveness of…December 2015Environmental/Community Health
- How are health and education related? Steven Woolf, M.D., M.P.H., professor of family medicine and population health at Virginia Commonwealth University and director of the VCU Center on Society and Health, recently gave a presentation to the AAFP Board of Directors that illustrated the significant impact education has on health. Based on reports published last year by the Center on Society and…December 2015Early Childhood Education
- A collection of analyses and research findings examining the link between immigration status, health care and health. (website abstract)November 2015Systemic Determinants, Racism
- More than 5.2 million American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people live in the United States today. Spread mostly throughout the western United States and Alaska, many live mainly on or near reservations and rural communities. The AI/AN population is incredibly diverse, representing 566 federally recognized tribes. AI/AN people are disproportionately affected by diabetes. According to the U.S…October 2015Diabetes
- On Sept. 17, 2015, professor John A. Powell, director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at University of California, Berkeley, discussed structural racialization, the concept of “targeted universalism” and more at the final event in the 2015 Health Equity Learning Series. More than 200 attendees sold out the History Colorado Center in Denver, and hundreds more live-streamed…September 2015Community-rooted/Participatory Research
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