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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November 14, 2011 | Issue Brief
The Department of Health and Human Services has released final standards to measure health care disparities based on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language, and disability status, as required by health reform.
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The patterns of attrition among elderly participants in health research studies vary significantly by race and ethnicity. As population diversity increases, researchers should consider these differences when assembling survey panels in order to retain minority participants and avoid biased estimates.
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Latino and African-American children face disproportionate risk factors for developmental disorders this article presents new evidence that health care providers are less likely to engage African-American and Latino parents about concerns for their children's development.
January 31, 2011 | Issue Brief
Overview of the AF4Q effort, its goals and communities.
October 5, 2011 | Journal Article
The October issue of Health Affairs looks at disparities from a number of perspectives, featuring the work of several Scholars and experts funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
February 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
While nearly half of U.S. physicians identify language or cultural communication barriers as obstacles to providing high-quality care, physician adoption of practices to overcome such barriers is modest and uneven, according to a new national study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The Network for Multicultural Research on Health and Health Care is a UCLA-based mentorship program that supports career development of junior investigators and their publishing efforts.
April 1, 2011 | Evaluation/Journal Article
This article examines the opinions of health care enrollees about the collection of racial, ethnic and language data by health plans.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The quality of care received is rated higher when foreign-born Latinos and their providers speak the same language.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Community Health Centers (CHCs) provide care to a substantial proportion of the Latino population, including diabetes patients. This study compared the frequency of problematic experiences at CHCs and private practices for a nationally representative sample of Latinos with Diabetes.