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 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.
August 27, 2009 | Journal Article
Latino immigrants to the U.S. have lower mortality rates than subsequent, U.S. born generations. This article reviews existing evidence related to health disparities between Latinos and the general U.S. population and between foreign and U.S. born Latinos.
January 10, 2012 | Video/Story
Since 2005, Finding Answers has awarded and managed research grants totaling $8 million to health care organizations implementing interventions aimed at reducing disparities.
May 5, 2011 | Journal Article
Stigma around depression affects Latino's interest in seeking treatment.
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines how language and income interact with treatment of Type II diabetes in a large managed-care trial. Previous research has shown that minorities and low-socioeconomic status individuals have more poorly controlled blood sugar levels than White Americans.
May 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The Health Care Access Model defines taxonomy and presents a framework for classifying and reporting health care access barriers associated with health care disparities.
December 12, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at the Pew Hispanic Center and a multicultural research network managed by the University of California, Los Angeles, studied disparities in health and access to care in Latino and other minority populations.
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This paper analyzes the associations between neighborhood factors and depression among Latinos in Los Angeles county.
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study looked at the effect of immigrant generation on levels of physical activity among Filipinos, Chinese and Mexican adults.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The lowest rates of treatment—pharmacotherapy or psychotherapy—were found among African Americans, Caribbean Blacks and Mexican Americans with depression.