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Leveraging Public Policies to Improve Health Equity


Leveraging Public Policies to Improve Health Equity | RWJF

We need public policies that not only maximize access to affordable, quality healthcare, but also work to elevate communities and dismantle systemic barriers ...

Leveraging Evidence-Based Policies to Improve Health, Control ...

Leveraging Evidence-Based Policies to Improve Health, Control Costs, and Create Health Equity ... Report outlines role of social determinants in ...

Best Practices to Leverage Partnerships to Support Health Equity

Policy Advocacy: Joint advocacy efforts can influence policies promoting health equity, such as regulations that improve access to healthcare or ...

What Can Public Health Programs Do to Improve Health Equity?

These health services often include essential services as recommended by WHO or national policies, including access to essential medicines or antenatal care ...

Leveraging Evidence-Based Policies to Improve Health, Control ...

Trust for America's Health (TFAH) is a non-profit, nonpartisan public health policy, research, and advocacy organization that promotes optimal ...

Health Equity in Healthy People 2030

Healthy People 2030 defines a health disparity as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental ...

Pandemic-Driven Health Policies To Address Social Needs And ...

Stark disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic led to new health policy funding and interventions addressing social needs and social ...

Public Policy | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity

Achieving health equity requires close attention to policies. Traditionally, people think of policy as something imposed by government, and largely via ...

A Pathway for Public Health Practice to Leverage Law in Advancing ...

Equity is also a practical concept that requires “focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices ...

Leveraging Community Expertise to Advance Health Equity

Federal, state, and local government agencies are responsible for including the public in program and policy development via public notices, public hearings, ...

Leveraging Community Information to Improve Health Equity

We can and should improve equity on a host of fronts if we act on the lessons of the emerging research exemplified by this paper: community and individual ...

Bridging Public Health and Health Care to Promote Health Equity

By creating roles like chief medical officer and chief equity officer that are focused on antiracism and equity, health departments can begin to ...

Leveraging Data to Advance Health Equity - Unite Us

advance health-related policies. In doing so, stakeholders can strive to meet community members' social needs and develop policies that.

Leveraging the resources of foundations to advance health equity

Large foundations with a national reach generally devote their funding to policy and systems issues and seek to develop the next generation of health leaders.

Leveraging Health Opportunity and Equity.

We believe we can make that change by raising awareness, advancing policy, and building power among oppressed populations. To achieve health equity, we focus on ...

CMS Framework for Health Equity

Our goals are to explicitly measure the impact of our policies on health equity, to develop sustainable solutions that close gaps in health and ...

Strengthening local government policies to address health inequities

Local governments approach health equity in different ways including focusing on priority populations, disadvantaged geographic areas, or by ...

Leveraging Value-Based Payment Approaches to Promote Health ...

Leveraging Value-Based Payment Approaches to Promote Health Equity: Key Strategies for Health Care Payers ... to address upstream social determinants of health ...

5 building blocks to help achieve greater health equity

It will also need a strong community health system that emphasizes social determinants of health (such as housing, transportation, and other ...

Health Equity - American Public Health Association

Creating health equity is a guiding priority and core value of APHA. By health equity, we mean everyone has the opportunity to attain their highest level of ...