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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February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Pay-for-performance (P4P) programs can boost care quality and lower costs, but might have unintended effects on racial and ethnic disparities. This research highlights the need to consider the impact of P4P on disparities.
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Investigation into subsidies for hospitals that provide a disproportionate share (DSH) of care to uninsured patients in California found that DSH subsidies do not effectively target the highest providers of care to the uninsured.
May 12, 2010 | Journal Article
Two decades of research, driven by the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, suggest that there are substantial differences in Medicare spending by region that do not correlate to the quality of health care provided.
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Hospitalization rates and Medicare costs due to cardiovascular disease have the potential to be reduced when patients practice better medication adherence.
July 27, 2010 | Issue Brief
Brief analyzes possible evolution of accountable care organizations (ACOs).
April 20, 2011 | Journal Article
Benefit design has similar effects on health care use for low- and high-risk patients.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
The University of Washington examined whether community-level characteristics, such as unequal income distribution and segregation in housing, affect the decision to purchase private health insurance.