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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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- For many non-profits in the arts and culture sector, the past two years have been intensely transformative in terms of navigating the pandemic, keeping their doors open, supporting artists when programming was shuttered and serving the community. At the Ashé Cultural Arts Center (ACAC) in New Orleans, the challenges were no different. However, true to its mission to use arts and culture to…December 2022Services & Programs
- A February 2021 article on the Health Affairs Forefront explored the increased emphasis on health equity among philanthropic organizations across the US. The piece, which shared findings from a survey of health care grantmakers, reported that more than four out of five foundations had changed or plan to change their health equity programming. Moreover, nearly half of those polled had created new…December 2022Services & Programs
- This guide aims to grow understanding of what digital equity is, why it is important, and identify best practices for ensuring equity when using digital platforms. The world’s shift to a heavy reliance on virtual platforms to collaborate, exchange information, and conduct business in recent years requires that people have access to internet and utilize various digital mediums. It is important to…December 2022Policy and Practice
- Tailoring care, programs, and services to the cultural, social, gender, and other socio-demographic contexts of individuals served yields positive outcomes. Communities and individuals benefit when they receive behavioral health services that are clinically proven effective, equitable, and culturally appropriate. This guide focuses on the process of adapting evidence-based practices (EBPs) for…November 2022Mental/Behavioral Health
- What will it take to deeply embed equity in the data, evidence, and knowledge that fuel change? In this blog post, Alonzo Plough from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation details how his 25 years of experience in public health has made it clear: it’s time for new thinking, investments, practices, and approaches in research if a healthier and more equitable future is to be possible for all.November 2022Policy and Practice
- The diversity of religion within our world's population brings challenges for health care providers and systems to deliver culturally competent medical care. Cultural competence is the ability of health providers and organizations to deliver health care services that meet the cultural, social, and religious needs of patients and their families. Culturally competent care can improve patient…November 2022Services & Programs, Social Environment
- This toolkit outlines the steps for public health programs that engage communities. It covers the process from start to finish. Its main goal is to share how to work well with communities. It also describes community partners’ role in improving public health. We use examples from two programs that gave out COVID-19 tests. This toolkit is for anyone who wants to work with communities for a public…November 2022COVID-19/Coronavirus, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- In a finding that challenges the notion that immigrants are freeloaders in the American health care system, a new study shows they are paying a lot more through health care premiums and related taxes than they actually use in care. In fact, the amount that immigrants pay in makes up for some of the amount of health care that non-immigrants use in excess of what they pay. “Some politicians and…November 2022Services & Programs
- One of the most encouraging and exciting developments in philanthropy has been the enormous investments made in health equity, a movement that is only beginning to make inroads in shifting the balance in the way some of the most underserved people get and stay healthy.The health disparities that plague our nation all came to a head as the COVID-19 pandemic shed light anew on our country’s…November 2022Policy and Practice
- The existence of health disparities is an intractable public health problem. It is unacceptable not only that infant mortality, premature death rates, and disease burden are higher for racial and ethnic minorities such as Black and American Indian communities than they are for the general population but that these disparities persist despite decades of attention from public health. This is in…November 2022Policy and Practice, Policy & Law
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