To seek and evaluate promising interventions in health care settings to reduce racial and ethnic disparities, with an increased focus on disseminating results from the first rounds of grants and sharing lessons learned with the communities working under the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.
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Want to jumpstart your organization’s efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care in 2013? Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change offers three new resources that can help your project gain momentum this year.
Major disparities exist along racial and ethnic lines in the United States for a variety of medical conditions, but guidance is scarce about how to reduce these gaps. In a supplement to the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Finding Answers researchers offer a "roadmap" to reduce disparities, drawing upon systematic reviews of disparities research in various diseases.
What works to reduce disparities in health care? What effect will the Affordable Care Act have on equity in health care? Melissa Partin, MD, deputy editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine interviews Marshall Chin, MD, director of Finding Answers.
Addressing Disparities in Diabetes, Heart Disease and Depression Care
Two promising practices from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-supported Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change program offer overviews and lessons learned from projects focused on reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care among low-income, ethnic minority patients.
Hear more updates from Finding AnswersIn eastern North Carolina, researchers with Vidant Health and the East Carolina University Department of Family Medicine used a “circuit-rider” approach to send certified diabetes educators to rural clinics to become part of primary care office visits for patients with type 2 diabetes.
Read the summaryIn Durham, North Carolina, nurses from Duke University Medical Center called patients each month for a year to discuss the patients’ cardiovascular disease risk management and followed up with patients’ primary care providers at regular intervals.
Read the summaryIn January 2013 @FndgAnswers hosted "A Month of Tweets" to amplify the national discussion on finding solutions to health care disparities. They started the month with a newly created Twitter presence and a string of varied topics to get the conversation flowing. Throughout the campaign, Finding Answers shared tips, tools, and updates on Twitter about the latest developments in disparities research, ACA implementation as it relates to disparities, and easy-to-adapt intervention models.
Learn how the campaign unfolded in this Storify recap.