This 2021 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation lists the ways that investing in health equity can help organizations: Comply with regulatory requirements and become eligible for federal dollars. Prepare for changes in reimbursement and new healthcare market demands. Meet quality...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health developed this framework for 2022-2032. The framework includes 5 priorities for advancing health equity: Priority 1: Expand the Collection, Reporting, and Analysis of Standardized Data Priority 2: Assess Causes of...
This webpage discusses health equity in the context of Healthy People 2030--an initiative of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It also provides tools for action to help individuals, organizations, and communities committed to improving health and well-being advance health...
This 2017 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was designed to increase consensus around meaning of health equity. The report also includes examples of specific terms related to health equity that often arise in discussions around the concept. #HealthEquity
This document provides a summary of a 2022 workshop hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy. This workshop focused on how health literacy best practices might affect trust in public health institutions at the state, local, tribal,...
This document provides a summary of a 2022 workshop hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Health Literacy. This workshop focused on how health literacy best practices might affect trust in community-based organizations, and how that trust in...
This document provides a summary of a 2022 workshop hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy. The workshop explored how using health literacy best practices in clinical settings might impact trust in health care institutions, and...
Building a Health Literate Community to Achieve Health Equity: Insights, Lessons Learned, and Next Steps The importance of organizational health literacy is increasingly clear in the time of COVID-19 and widespread health disparities. It has been elevated by the new Healthy People 2030...
Nursing Research in Health Literacy and Equity Nurses hold a pivotal role in health care to promote health literacy and health equity. Nursing researchers are positioned to investigate and identify effective strategies to meet the Healthy People 2030 health literacy goal, “to eliminate...
The National Academy of Medicine's Organizing Committee for Assessing Meaningful Community Engagement in Health & Health Care Programs & Policies wrote this 2022 commentary. The piece outlines a conceptual model to advance health equity through transformed systems for health. In...