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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May 5, 2011 | Journal Article
Stigma around depression affects Latino's interest in seeking treatment.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result
Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Medicine conducted a 10-year follow-up study of trends in the use of breast cancer screening in the U.S. and Ontario, Canada, which was begun in 1990.
October 1, 2005 | Story
Johnson received her MMFDP fellowship in 1993 and continued her research into the appropriateness of and access to cardiology care for minorities and women.
October 1, 2005 | Story
Gibbs is working to establish a molecular biology laboratory for the UCSF Liver Center.
October 1, 2005 | Story
Pace added a second dimension to her career when she entered a fellowship training program in hematology/oncology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1987.
October 1, 2005 | Story
Merchant was recruited to the University of Michigan as an assistant professor and developer of a molecular biology laboratory.
November 1, 2007 | Story
Race and ethnicity affects how patients and their physicians interact and can impact health outcomes.