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, 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.
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study compared antidepressant use among Latinos and Whites.
January 1, 2008 | Toolkit
The report Improving Quality and Achieving Equity: A Guide for Hospital Leaders is a guide meant to take the process of eliminating health disparities to the next level. Documenting health disparities is not sufficient strategies to eliminate them must be more systematically implemented.
May 6, 2008 | Program Result Report
Staff at the American Medical Association (AMA) conducted a series of planning activities designed to build and formalize the Commission to End Health Care Disparities.
May 9, 2008 | Program Result Report
A research team examined the medical literature in order to summarize what was known about language barriers in health care, and outline gaps in published and ongoing research.
September 1, 2008 | Toolkit
The National Health Plan Collaborative has created this toolkit of resources, lessons, best practices and case studies to help other health plans join the effort to reduce disparities.
June 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
From 2002 to 2004, staff from GYMR Public Relations purchased advertising space and developed outreach materials to support a program to increase cardiologists' awareness of racial and ethnic disparities in health care.
August 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
David Nerenz, Ph.D., Senior Staff Investigator at the Henry Ford Health System, managed the production of five white papers that describe how health care organizations can use data on race and ethnicity to address disparities in health care.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The RAND Corporation synthesized and disseminated information on effective community interventions to address racial and ethnic disparities in six health areas.