Health Equity

Making Community Health Workers Fundamental: New Research Strengthens the Case for State Policymakers to Include CHWs in Care Delivery Teams

There is considerable evidence that community health workers (CHWs) are an effective and versatile workforce that can improve health outcomes and reduce health care costs for diverse groups and health...

Advancing Health Equity Through Community Health Workers and Peer Providers: Mounting Evidence and Policy Recommendations

As decision-makers seek to transform health care delivery and payment systems to increase value, improve outcomes, and control costs, they need clinical, health systems, and population health research...

A National Priority Agenda to Advance Health Equity Through System Transformation

The Health Equity Task Force for Delivery and Payment Transformation’s Top 19 Recommendations for 2019 and Beyond. The United States is struggling with an increasingly expensive and inefficient hea...

The Role of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Improving Evidence and Advancing Health Equity

The ongoing effort to transform health care in the United States is an important opportunity to address racial, ethnic, and other health inequities directly and deliberately. A central pillar in deliv...

Expanding Medicaid Round Four: Utah’s Costly Exercise in Futility

It has been nearly one year since Utah voters passed Proposition 3, a ballot initiative to fully expand Medicaid. Unfortunately, the state Legislature overrode Proposition 3 with the passage of S.B. ...

Four Pillars Overview Video

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Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Adults with Disabilities Can Improve Their Health and Well-Being

Many adults with disabilities experience extraordinary barriers to good oral health. Without good oral health insurance coverage in Medicare or many state Medicaid programs, many people with disabilit...

How the Affordable Care Act Helps Communities of Color

The Affordable Care Act is designed to expand health coverage, improve quality, and reduce costs. The new law also provides a critical foundation for addressing racial and ethnic health disparities. ...

Talking Points: The American Health Care Act

The American Health Care Act would strip affordable coverage from working people, leaving millions uninsured and millions more facing drastically higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs. It would retu...

Webinar: Using State Plan Amendments (SPAs) to Support Community Health Workers

Community health workers (CHWs) have a proven track record of improving health and reducing disparities, but a lack of sustainable funding prevents their more widespread integration into the health ca...