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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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- Data are a cornerstone for efforts to advance health equity. How we ask for, analyze, and report information on race and ethnicity affects our ability to understand the racial and ethnic composition of our nation’s population and our ability to identify and address racial disparities in health and health care. The accuracy and precision of such data have important implications for identifying…April 2024Policy and Practice
- ECHO autism communities are the first ECHO programs to regularly include people with lived experience on ECHO sessions as equal experts and teachers to other providers. (author description) #P4HEwebinarJuly2024April 2024Advocacy
- In the complex landscape of healthcare, one crucial concept has gained significant traction in recent years: intersectionality. This paradigm acknowledges that individuals experience various forms of oppression and privilege that intersect and influence their health outcomes. Furthermore, understanding intersectionality is vital for achieving health equity, as it allows us to address the…March 2024Social/Structural Determinants
- Though strides towards achieving equity have been made, Black women still experience much higher mortality rates, risk of diseases and shorter life expectancies than women of other races do. Three Michigan State University leaders from varied backgrounds are working to tackle systemic and systematic inequalities at the heart of the most basic human right: healthcare.One of these leaders is Dr.…March 2024Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- In recent years, advocates have sought to address societal problems by making critical information more transparent. Social movements such as open education, open science, open access, and open-source software have led to advances that benefit much of humanity: more equitable access to educational resources; public services such as Wikipedia; and essential medical research, which contributed to…March 2024Policy and Practice
- Black and Brown maternal health disparities are rooted in historical health policies limiting power and reproductive decision-making in the United States. From anti-Black racism in the field of obstetrics and gynecology and policies such as the Sheppard–Towner Act of 1921 in the American South, to xenophobia through the forced sterilization of non-English speaking mothers in the 20th and 21st…February 2024Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
- “We believe that Black Americans have been able to survive and thrive through community and collective action.” That’s how five leading scholars recently set out a thesis for “promoting mental health in the teeth of oppression” in the prestigious journal Lancet Psychiatry. Excerpted below, a portion of their article, sub-headed “The Special Role of Black Elders,” written by Dr. Dix. Shorter life…February 2024Mental/Behavioral Health, Social/Structural Determinants
- Danya Keene and her team are on a mission to improve health care for unhoused people. Based out of the Yale School of Public Health, the Housing and Health Equity Lab has explored the effects of housing disparities and homelessness on people’s health since its founding in 2020. Her team aims to get a deeper understanding of how access to housing affects health outcomes and develops solutions to…January 2024Advocacy
- The Partners for Health Equity (P4HE) collaborative promotes innovation in health equity by facilitating active learning and collaboration between people and organizations about critical health equity topics. In 2023, P4HE Collaborative grew from 212 to 502 members across academia (48%), civil sector (21%), government (16%), private (8%), and philanthropy (7%).As of January 1, 2024, P4HE has…January 2024
- The statistics around Black maternal health in the United States remain unsettling. In the U.S., Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women. Black women are also two times more likely to experience severe maternal morbidity and 1.5 times more likely to have a preterm delivery, compared to their white counterparts. There are various…January 2024Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
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