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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August 1, 2010 | Report
This research summary highlights Minnesota Community Measurement's efforts to incorporate systematic data collection in physician practices to reduce disparities and improve quality.
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).
July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
A brief developed by Mathematica Policy Research explores health plan and employer partnerships to address disparities.
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.
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article examines racial/ethnic and language-based disparities in family-centered care for children with special health care needs.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The issue offers nine studies examining hypertension, diabetes, health insurance coverage, discrimination, quality of care, spirituality, preventive care, and other topics.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Children's health disparities are often overlooked. One way to address this issue is by merging findings from quality improvement initiatives with findings from disparities research. Asthma and immunization initiatives are two areas where disparities in children's health care and health have been tackled with some success.