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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September 1, 2008 | Toolkit
The National Health Plan Collaborative has created this toolkit of resources, lessons, best practices and case studies to help other health plans join the effort to reduce disparities.
January 1, 2008 | Toolkit
The report Improving Quality and Achieving Equity: A Guide for Hospital Leaders is a guide meant to take the process of eliminating health disparities to the next level. Documenting health disparities is not sufficient strategies to eliminate them must be more systematically implemented.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit/Story
Expecting Success, the nation's first multihospital collaborative focused on reducing disparities, helped 10 hospitals measure the quality of cardiac treatment they provide to patients based on their race, ethnicity and primary language.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit/Video
The current race and ethnicity categories used by the Office of Management and Budget are the recommended standard, yet given the United States' increasingly diverse population, the Expecting Success program used an expanded list of categories.
June 5, 2008 | Toolkit/Video
Ten hospitals with racially and ethnically diverse patient populations participated in Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at improving quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities. All 10 hospitals improved the quality of care being provided to their heart failure and heart attack patients.
July 1, 2010 | Toolkit
"On-boarding materials" to assist with recruiting and orienting consumer representatives to the work of Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q).
July 1, 2012 | Toolkit
This framework was designed to assist Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances in building an onboarding toolkit for new consumers. Onboarding is a process used to orient new volunteers or staff to an organization. It typically includes a set of ...
July 1, 2012 | Toolkit
Meaningfully engaging consumer leaders in the Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative helps ensure the community's patient, caregiver, and consumer needs are met. Meaningful consumer engagement (CE) is a term often used when describing multi-s ...
April 1, 2012 | Toolkit
This document outlines a set of best practices for Alliances to recruit, orient, and support consumer stakeholders, also called community partners.
April 1, 2012 | Toolkit
Although there are a number of specific reasons why quality data reports may be missing for a provider, this report provides guidance focusing on three key reasons: Too few patients did not report and not applicable.