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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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- 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
- 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
- Child welfare agency leaders, including tribal child welfare administrators, and other decision makers possess substantial power and influence that can be leveraged toward advancing equity in research and evaluation. National momentum is growing to identify and address the disproportionality and disparities that diverse communities along the child welfare continuum experience. These include the…November 2022Policy and Practice
- As advocates for health equity—when everyone has a just opportunity to live their highest health potential—we need to stop talking about eliminating health inequities. Not because unjust differences in health across groups don’t matter or because we don’t need to transform systems to produce equitable outcomes for all. Rather, framing our focus on reducing differences in health obscures the…October 2022Communication
- 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
- While the COVID pandemic and most recent racial reckoning galvanized the traditional health philanthropy community, many corporate funders made their first foray into supporting racial and social justice efforts as well as health equity. Corporate social responsibility efforts were, and continue to be, scrutinized as merely cosmetic public relations efforts with no real long-term, institutional…October 2022Early Childhood Education
- “Indigenous peoples offer us valuable ways to address the global water crisis through their traditional practices, both in terms of the sustainable management of aquatic ecosystems and the democratic governance of safe drinking water and sanitation,” said Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation Pedro Arrojo-Agudo. (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarJuly2023October 2022Policy & Law, Services & Programs, Access
- There are two types of quality measures: those that are regulatory-driven – required or incentivized by the Federal government – and measures recommended from healthcare organizations and programs, including federal departments and other non-profits, think tanks and research entities. As follow up to article one on recent health equity regulations, this article provides an overview of the major…October 2022Policy and Practice
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