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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November 14, 2011 | Issue Brief
The Department of Health and Human Services has released final standards to measure health care disparities based on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language, and disability status, as required by health reform.
December 17, 2009 | Commentary
The major reform proposals' intent to increase coverage may address some of the racial and ethnic disparities that continue to exist in the U.S. health care system. With so much focus on national health reform, this article reminds readers of both the challenges of and opportunities for equity in its implementation.
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Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s signature effort to lift the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities and provide models for national reform.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
David Barton Smith, PhD, studied the historical link between racial segregation and discrimination in health care and examined possible approaches to address certain continuing discrepancies and the persistence of segregation.
March 11, 2008 | Story
Factors such as social determinants, disparities in the health care system, and the lack of diversity in the health professions coalesce to undermine the quality and fairness of our health and health care.
August 26, 2010 | Journal Article
Promoting the adoption and use of health information technology (HIT) is a major priority for U.S. policy-makers as a means of managing health care costs and improving quality.
March 26, 2013 | Issue Brief
Forces Driving Implementation of the CAHPS® Clinician & Group Survey is part of a suite of resources on patient experience designed by AF4Q to assist community health collaboratives.
October 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Resource outlining patient race, ethnicity and language (R/E/L) data collection provisions within Meaningful Use, the Affordable Care Act as well as revised standards issued by the Joint Commission.
August 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
16 communities. 37 million people. One goal.
July 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
The use of patient-facing health information technology (HIT) platforms, such as personal health records (PHRs) and web portals, holds the promise of engaging patients in their own health care with the ultimate purpose of improving overall quality a ...