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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July 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
For more than 20 years, research has shown that racial and ethnic minorities consistently receive lower-quality health care and have worse health outcomes than whites, even when demographic and socioeconomic factors are taken into account.
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.
March 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This brief developed by the Legal Barriers team reviews provisions in the Affordable Care Act that address the issue of disparities reduction.
January 1, 2011 | Report
This grants portfolio presents an outline of the 33 Finding Answers projects which are being evaluated through funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of the Finding Answers program.
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.
September 9, 2010 | Report
Meeting the nation’s primary care needs is more than a numbers game. A new report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project shows that neither higher amounts of primary care services, nor making sure patients routinely see a primary care clinician is, by its ...
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This research suggests that differences in CAHPS survey results by race or ethnicity are more likely to reflect actual experiences than differences in use of the survey instrument.
August 1, 2010 | Report
Aggregate findings from the assessment of current R/E/L data collection and use across Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances, including recommendations for implementing the framework.