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 9, 2011 | Video
Finding Answers is a national program of the RWJF that supports research in racial and ethnic inequalities in health care. Program researchers scrutinize specific strategies aimed at improving care to see which are effective.
August 12, 2010 | Program Result
Researchers at the Henry Ford Health System applied the path analysis and structural equation modeling statistical technique to four datasets previously analyzed using regression methods.
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.
February 1, 2008 | Report
The Importance of Reducing Disparities For more than 20 years, research has documented the persistent gaps in health care quality that disproportionately affect Americans from specific racial and ethnic backgrounds. Many who experience disparate car ...
November 1, 2010 | News Release
Health care organizations in California, Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania were awarded $1.6 million to support their efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic health care disparities in communities across the United States.
September 29, 2010 | Story
Methodist North Hospital implemented changes in the hospital electronic medical record (EMR) and patient in-take process to improve the collection and accuracy of REL data collection.
September 29, 2010 | Story
Methodist North Hospital organized an event with community leaders to engage them in efforts to reduce disparities in care.
September 9, 2010 | News Release
Medicare patients receive care and outcomes of widely varying quality; where you live has a greater influence on the care you receive than the color of your skin
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study compared antidepressant use among Latinos and Whites.
December 9, 2009 | Program Result
Drexel University School of Public Health hosted the Sixth National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations. The aim was to support practitioners and advance the field through innovation, policy and research.