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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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- The events of the past year raised our collective awareness of racial and ethnic health disparities, social inequities, and some of the systemic policies driving these inequities. In response to this awakening, numerous organizations issued statements condemning the injustices and committing to address inequities. In an effort to provide a more complete picture of how foundations have altered…February 2021Services & Programs, Systemic Determinants, Racism
- Health inequity and not health equity is an ever-present problem for minority elders. We believe that health inequity in later life is best understood from a life-course perspective—to fully grasp current and past effects of inequities. Today, about one in every four adults ages 65 and older in the United States is part of a racial or ethnic minority group (i.e., Blacks/African Americans, Latinos…January 2021Aging and Life Course, Ageism
- Prior to the global Covid-19 pandemic, many policy makers and much of the public lacked an understanding of the importance of public health and well-functioning public health systems. Organizations that advocate for best-practice public health policies—civil society organizations, universities, professional medical associations, and philanthropic organizations, and an informed public—perform a…January 2021Advocacy
- Eating healthy, getting regular medical check-ups, exercising and sleeping sufficiently are all behaviors well-known to influence health quality. However, studies suggest one unexpected factor that can predict how long people will live: education. Education gives people the tools they need to lead fulfilling lives, thrive personally, and contribute to their communities. In addition, education…January 2021Social Environment
- Health care professionals nationally may be inadequately trained to address gaps in health care affecting underserved communities, according to findings published this summer in a JAMA Network Open paper. VCU’s health sciences schools are working to bridge this gap. In the fall of 2020, VCU’s health sciences schools initiated several inaugural events to increase awareness of the health care needs…January 2021Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- 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
- 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
- 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
- This article highlights the global advocacy efforts on UHC Day, December 12, calling for equitable health systems. It emphasizes the Rockefeller Foundation’s commitment to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) since the first UHC Day in 2014. The 2020 theme, "Protect Everyone," underscores the urgency of health equity, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, which magnified existing health…December 2020Global Health
- To showcase what states are doing to address health disparities that the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare, the National Academy for State Health Policy is highlighting state initiatives through reports and guest blogs, such as this one by Massachusetts Attorney General Office Health Care Analyst Noam Yossefy and Assistant Attorney General Sandra Wolitzky. (author introduction)December 2020COVID-19/Coronavirus
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