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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August 12, 2010 | Program Result
Researchers at the Henry Ford Health System applied the path analysis and structural equation modeling statistical technique to four datasets previously analyzed using regression methods.
December 9, 2009 | Program Result
Drexel University School of Public Health hosted the Sixth National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations. The aim was to support practitioners and advance the field through innovation, policy and research.
September 18, 2009 | Program Result
Representatives of American auto makers and two health providers implemented strategies to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care experienced by auto company employees and dependents in the Detroit area.
September 18, 2009 | Program Result
As part of the National Health Plan Collaborative, eleven national health insurance plans work to reduce disparities in treatment for diabetes.
February 18, 2010 | Program Result
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine tested whether using hand-held computers to answer questions about their health status and the reason for their current visit empowered African-American patients to take a more active role in their health care.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
The RAND Corporation synthesized and disseminated information on effective community interventions to address racial and ethnic disparities in six health areas.
November 23, 2005 | Program Result
Physicians for Human Rights developed an online toolkit for medical students and students in other health professions to raise awareness and take action to help eliminate racial and ethic disparities in health and health care.
May 6, 2008 | Program Result
Staff at the American Medical Association (AMA) conducted a series of planning activities designed to build and formalize the Commission to End Health Care Disparities.
May 9, 2008 | Program Result
A research team examined the medical literature in order to summarize what was known about language barriers in health care, and outline gaps in published and ongoing research.
June 1, 2006 | Program Result
From 2002 to 2004, staff from GYMR Public Relations purchased advertising space and developed outreach materials to support a program to increase cardiologists' awareness of racial and ethnic disparities in health care.