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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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- Introduction Gun violence plagues many communities that simultaneous experience other threats to their health and safety. Policing strategies to address illegal gun carrying may exacerbate or even contribute to gun violence. Methods We conducted a mixed-methods study to understand community perspectives on gun violence, safety, and the Baltimore Police Department (BPD)’s approaches to gun…December 2022Gun policy
- In 2011, two of us, John Kania and Mark Kramer, published an article in Stanford Social Innovation Review entitled “Collective Impact.” It quickly became the most downloaded article in the magazine’s history. To date, it has garnered more than one million downloads and 2,400 academic citations. More important, it encouraged many thousands of people around the world to apply the collective impact…December 2022Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions, Services & Programs
- Background: Foundations that support health and health care related issues are bell weathers for our nation's most pressing challenges in this area. The new National Academy of Medicine report, The Future of Nursing 2020 to 2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity has been perfectly timed to provide foundations with the additional research and evidence they need to support health equity…November 2022Services & Programs
- As US voters cast ballots in the 2022 midterm elections last week, voters rated health equity matters highly among issues of concern, according to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in August 2022. Although voters also rate health care highly among issues that concern them, it is joined by other public policies that are just as linked to health, including gun safety (62%) and education (…November 2022Policy and Practice, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- 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
- 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
- Paid sick leave provides workers with paid time off to receive COVID-19 vaccines and to recover from potential vaccine adverse effects. We hypothesized that US cities with paid sick leave would have higher COVID-19 vaccination coverage and narrower coverage disparities than those without such policies. Using county-level vaccination data and paid sick leave data from thirty-seven large US cities…November 2022Vaccine Access and Uptake, Paid Family Leave
- Research suggests that increasing drug prices affects some patients’ ability to adhere to their medication regimen. To help with the affordability of prescription drugs, lawmakers have considered state pharmaceutical assistance programs, known as SPAPs. (author abstract) #P4HEwebinarNovember2022October 2022Services & Programs
- Tobacco use remains the nation’s leading cause of preventable premature death, including death from cancer, and progress in reducing tobacco use and related disease and death has not been equally distributed across population groups. This monograph examines the current evidence surrounding tobacco-related health disparities (TRHD) across the tobacco use continuum—initiation, secondhand smoke…October 2022Environment/Context
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