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, 2012 | Video/Presentation Material
What We're Learning about Coordinating Health Care for High-Utilizers.
June 30, 2009 | Presentation Material
This slideshow describes Aligning Forces for Quality, a local and national approach that brings together those who get care, give care and pay for care to improve health care quality.
June 30, 2009 | Presentation Material
This slideshow presents the resources that are available to patients, how patients use information on health care, and how the choices people make profoundly affect health outcomes and cost of care.
June 30, 2009 | Presentation Material
This slideshow presents several case studies about payment reform that rely on measuring and reporting performance information and rewarding health care providers for quality improvement efforts.
June 30, 2009 | Presentation Material
This slideshow presents information about performance measurement and public reporting, including ways they are being implemented around the country.
June 30, 2009 | Presentation Material
This slideshow depicts quality improvement efforts in various settings.