The RWJF national program Finding Answers developed a six-step framework to help people and organizations reduce disparities. Now available in a simple graphic that’s easy to distribute—or tack up above your desk—the Roadmap can help you fit reducing disparities into all health care quality improvement efforts.
This detailed curriculum offers step-by-step instructions for reducing disparities, including case studies and an implementation tool kit.
Staff from Finding Answers describe how they developed the six steps to reducing disparities in a supplement to the Journal of General Internal Medicine. They outline their work to conduct systematic reviews of the literature, evaluate promising practices, provide technical assistance to health care organizations and disseminate their findings.
Need the research on what’s worked to reduce disparities? Need it sorted by health topic or strategy? Finding Answers’ FAIR database is the most comprehensive collection of summaries and systematic reviews of racial and ethnic health disparities intervention literature available anywhere. Search by health topic (for instance: asthma, diabetes) or by strategy (for instance: pay for performance, nurse-led interventions).
In 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.
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January 1, 2011 | Book
This article provides fresh evidence of low mortality rates among adult and older Hispanic immigrants. The authors cite numerous studies, including several refuting "salmon-bias " Hispanic neighborhoods seem to provide cultural support systems promoting good health.
June 17, 2010 | Book
Our payment system should reward providers for giving patients the right care at the right time. RWJF is supporting research into how this vision can be made a reality.
December 27, 2009 | Book
The fifth issue of the PROMETHEUS Payment project's quarterly newsletter provides updates on the program's work to ignite a transformation in health care payment and the way providers and insurers conduct business.
September 30, 2009 | Book
This issue includes updates on several new and informative products are available from the program.
July 13, 2009 | Book
The third issue of the PROMETHEUS Payment project's quarterly newsletter provides brief updates on the program's latest work.
March 31, 2009 | Book
The second issue of the PROMETHEUS Payment project's quarterly newsletter provides brief updates on the program's recent achievements, and highlights news from the pilot sites.