Nov 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Dear Partners, Supporters, and Friends, What a week! After a tumultuous and anxious national election, many of us in the health sector feel the weight of the unknown. We know that the communities we serve—those most at risk of inequities and disparities—may face even...
Sep 23, 2024 | Health Education, Resources, Self-Care, Sustainability, Uncategorized
NEW! Implementation Guide for the Organizational Self-Care Assessment Tool The Implementation Guide will help you effectively implement Health Outreach Partners’ Organizational Self-Care Assessment Tool (OSCAT). By following these steps, your organization can...
Sep 13, 2024 | Resources, Transportation, Uncategorized
Health Outreach Partners is happy to present the Spanish version of one of our most widely viewed resources, the “Transportation is a Health Equity Issue” factsheet. Our factsheet: Investigates how transportation impacts access to care & other social...
Nov 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Happy Holidays! Every year, Health Outreach Partners staff travel to different places around the country to provide on-site trainings to health centers, conduct regional trainings for Primary Care Associations, attend and present at conferences, and do research for...
Aug 30, 2019 | Coffee Break Webinars, Uncategorized, Webinar
Coffee Break Webinar This Coffee Break Webinar is intended for anyone interested in using HOP’s free online tool, the Health Equity Starter Kit. In this session we describe how to best navigate our Health Equity Starter Kit, and highlight examples of some of the...
Jun 27, 2019 | Resources, Uncategorized
Data is essential as health centers attempt to balance the provision of care and recognizing how inequities impact the health of their patients and communities. Working toward health equity requires collecting information about the social determinants of health and...
Jun 27, 2019 | Resources, Uncategorized
How can we begin to work toward health equity? These examples of health centers and other organizations highlight innovative ways to address the social determinants of health. The strategies range from building health equity goals into the clinic model, while others...
Jun 27, 2019 | Resources, Uncategorized
Social determinants are “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age that shape health.” The systemic disparities in these conditions lead to health inequities between individuals and communities. The following resources explore the social...
Jun 27, 2019 | Resources, Uncategorized
Health is a fundamental human right. Yet many still experience inequities in accessing care, in health outcomes, and in the social determinants of health. Any efforts to address these inequities need to begin with a shared understanding of “health equity.”...
Jun 27, 2019 | Resources, Uncategorized
“No one has a right to work with poor people unless they have a real analysis of why people are poor.” – Barbara Major, Former Director of St. Thomas Health Clinic HOP recognizes that the root causes of social inequities and health disparities are structural...
