LibGuides: Health Disparities &amp; Health Equity: More Resources

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Advancing Health Equity
AHE provides materials, training, and hands-on technical assistance to healthcare provider organizations and care teams, payer organizations, government agencies, and the specialists working within them. AHE works with teams of state Medicaid agencies, Medicaid health plans, and frontline healthcare delivery organizations to develop and implement payment reform that supports and incentivizes care transformation aligned with the ultimate goal of advancing—and achieving—health equity.
AHRQ National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Presents trends for measures related to access to care, affordable care, care coordination, effective treatment, healthy living, patient safety, and person-centered care. The report presents, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to healthcare, as well as disparities related to race and ethnicity, income, and other social determinants of health.
AMA Center for Health Equity
The American Medical Association (AMA) Center for Health Equity works to embed health equity across the AMA organization so that health equity becomes part of the practice, process, action, innovation, and organizational performance and outcomes.
CDC: Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH)
A national program administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.
Centers for Disease Control Adolescent & School Health: Health Disparities
Health disparities are inequitable and are directly related to the historical and current unequal distribution of social, political, economic, and environmental resources. From the Division of Adolescent and School Health.
Centers for Disease Control: Health Equity - Minority Health
Special section on Minority Health.
CLAS, Cultural Competency and Cultural Humility
CLAS, Cultural Competency and Cultural Humility. Overview from Think Cultural Health, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Minority Health.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Nursing
This free, four-hour e-learning program is designed for nurses and nursing students seeking knowledge and skills related to cultural competency and cultural humility. This program will equip you to deliver the highest quality of care to everyone. It is accredited for nurses. From Think Cultural Health, HHS Office of Minority Health.
DiversityDataKids.org
Provide their community of users of their research and data with the information they need to make a positive impact through further research, community conversations about equity, and actions to change policy and allocate resources to increase equitable access to opportunity for all children.
Health Disparities Overview
From the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Health Equity in Healthy People 2030
Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade. From the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Hospital and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Style Guide

HPNA created this Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Style Guide, modeled after the University of Iowa Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Style Guide. This style guide is a fluid document intended to provide guidance to enhance understanding of preferred language to promote inclusion and belonging. The DEIB Style Guide offers guidance on:

Women, men, and individuals with a nonbinary gender identity or who don’t identify as a specific gender
People of various religions, races and ethnicities, including Black, African American, Hispanic and Latinx/o/a, Asian and Asian American, Pacific Islander, American Indian, Native American, Alaska Native, Hawaiian Native, Native, and Indigenous
Immigration and immigration status
People with disabilities
Individuals who are LGBTQIA2S+ and transgender
People who are low-income and unhoused
Age
People with substance use disorders
Health insurance status

Healthy People 2030: LGBT
Healthy People 2030 supports improving the health and well-being of LGBT populations through health behavior objectives, objectives to address systemic problems, and objectives to increase data collection on LGBT health and well-being. From the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
HRSA: Improving Health Equity for Diverse Populations
Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Health Equity. OHE works to reduce health disparities for socially disadvantaged and underserved populations.
Kaiser Family Foundation: Racial Equity and Health Data Dashboard
KFF’s Racial Equity and Health Data Dashboard gathers key data documenting inequities and the factors driving them.
Medline Plus: Health Disparities
Information on health disparities from the National Library of Medicine.
Minority Health and Health Equity Archive (MHHEA)
An electronic archive of digital resource materials in the fields of minority health and health disparities research and policy. It is offered as a no-charge resource to the public, academic scholars and health science researchers interested in the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities. From the Digital Repository of the University of Maryland.
Nassau County Office of Health Equity
The mission of the Office of Health Equity is to improve the health and well-being of residents living in underserved and vulnerable communities throughout Nassau County by collaborating with community partners and health partners to provide initiatives that help ensure greater health outcomes for those living in these communities.
National Center for Cultural Competence
The mission of the NCCC is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.

Definitions of Cultural Competence compiled by the NCCC. A number of definitions and descriptions of cultural competence were reviewed to compile the selected list. The definitions of are highlighted because they represent or are based on original and exemplary work and because of their potential impact to the field of health and human services.

National CLAS Standards Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
A set of 15 action steps intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by providing a blueprint for individuals and health and health care organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services.

An Implementation Checklist for the National CLAS Standards A CLAS action worksheet to plan CLAS activities at your office or organization or other type of health care services.

The New York City Department of Health: Health Disparities
Health Disparities in New York City is a new publication series from the Health Department.
New York State Department of Health: Health Equity
NIH National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
NIMHD invests in research and fosters collaborations and partnerships to promote and support evidence-based science to inform practice and policy. Its programs and initiatives provide a leading edge in enhancing the scientific knowledge base and designing interventions to improve health outcomes to reduce and ultimately lead to the elimination of health disparities.
RESPECT Model
What is most important when you engage with patients is that you remain open and maintain a sense of respect for your patients. The RESPECT model can help you remember what factors to consider to engage clients in a culturally and linguistically competent manner. These factors are important throughout assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. From Think Cultural Health from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Minority Health.
Suffolk County - Office of Minority Health
Their goal is to address existing health disparities and improve the health of minorities by: raising awareness of health issues through educational programs and events; working to improve access to quality primary care services and health insurance; and ensuring that their residents receive health care in a culturally sensitive and appropriate manner.
Brooklyn Health Disparities Center
Their mission is to develop and implement models to reduce health disparities in minority and new immigrant populations in Brooklyn through basic, clinical, behavioral and community participatory research, community education and outreach, and health professional training.
Think Cultural Health
From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Think Cultural Health: Education
Free, continuing education e-learning programs, each designed to help you provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS). From Department of Health and Human Services.
US Department of Health and Human Services: Office of Minority Health
The Office of Minority Health is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities.