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21. Improving Health Equity through Research and Action: Fact Sheet (pdf file)
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    March 01, 2024 - informed by the Biden- Harris Administration’s commitment to advancing equity and support for underserved communities … toolkits to improve the experiences and outcomes of births, including Black and Native American births, communities … AHRQ is expanding the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Database to make community- level SDOH data … Enables use of easily linkable SDOH data in patient-centered outcomes research to understand how community-level … patient-centered and participatory methods that center equity and ensure the voices of stakeholder and community

22. Practice Facilitation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - Home National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research Research Communities … National Center Research Initiatives Data Resources Tools and Resources Research Communities … https://www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/building-community/practice-facilitation.html  

23. Optimizing Health and Function as We Age: Roundtable Report (pdf file)
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    September 08, 2022 - growing number of communities. … autonomous but interdependent humans who are connected to one another through a series of links and “neighborhoods … Community Collaboration Throughout the day, participants discussed the importance of involving communities … and to reflect the priorities and the values of the communities. … https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/network-age-friendly-communities/ The AARP Network of Age-Friendly

24. Opioids AHRQ Works: Building Bridges Between Research and Practice (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2018 - Communities in rural areas are among the hardest hit by the opioid epidemic. … effective way to treat opioid use disorder, but access to this treatment is often limited in rural communities … with AHRQ support, linking specialists at an academic hub to primary care providers working in rural communities … Volume 2 includes nearly 250 tools and resources available to providers, patients, and communities … Through HCUPnet’s tables, graphs, and maps, community-level information can inform local health policy

25. Addressing Historical Racism and Inequality in American Healthcare | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    April 01, 2021 - the COVID-19 pandemic and the stark disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and other minority communities … This includes individuals who belong to underserved communities that have long been denied access to … Developing new funding mechanisms to support the career development of individuals from communities currently … , including maternal mortality, cardiovascular disease, substance use, and HIV in racial and ethnic communities

26. We Must Not Underestimate the Impacts of Gun Violence on Healthcare Workers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - these acts of violence pose a heavy burden of grief upon their families and friends as well as leave communities … Rarely, however, is the burden of grief among the healthcare workforce in these communities adequately … Healthcare workers feel the vulnerability that everyone in those communities feels.

27. Vanquishing Healthcare Disparities by Advancing Healthcare Equity | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2023 - Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal … Among the papers’ notable themes: Patients and communities must be centered in all efforts to advance … Whole-person and whole-community approaches can reduce fragmentation and address inequities’ root causes … The program also included explicit requirements for community participation at all stages of the research … approaches that are participatory, inclusive, and aimed at achieving equitable whole-person and whole-community

28. 2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: Executive Summary (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2021 - a disappointing trend in which opioid-related hospitalization rates increased faster in suburban communities … • While Black, Hispanic, and American Indian and Alaska Native communities all experienced substantial … and decreased 29% from 525.7 to 372.2 per million population in Black communities. … Despite these gains, incident rates in 2018 in Hispanic communities were still more than double the … rates in non-Hispanic White communities (142.8 events per million population).

29. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: A Profile (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2016 - There aren’t enough specialists to treat everyone who needs care, especially in rural and underserved communities … AHRQ funded an innovative model, called Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) … , for training and supporting primary care clinicians in rural communities to provide specialized care … – Discovering how to better provide opioid addiction treatment services in rural communities.

30. Seizing the Opportunity to Improve Healthcare for All | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2022 - , it also exposed inequalities in how these advances were made available in disadvantaged and rural communities … However, those living in remote rural and frontier communities with poor internet access were often stranded … Moreover, many minority communities declined vaccinations because of persistent mistrust in the biomedical

31. A Boost for Health Services Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2022 - We also think about allocating resources in culturally appropriate ways across communities, because healthcare … Addressing long-COVID will shape the future of U.S. healthcare in our communities.  … We are limited only by our imagination, so let’s work together and dream big to better serve our communities

32. AHRQ Quality Indicator Tools for Data Analytics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2020 - these indicators are based on hospital inpatient data, they provide insight into the health of the community … and the community-based healthcare system. … to identify and investigate communities that may need interventions. … In addition, they provide a quick check on primary care access or outpatient services in a community … and help organizations identify unmet needs in their communities.

33. Director Robert Otto Valdez, Ph.D., M.H.S.A. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2023 - He was previously the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Professor Emeritus of Family & Community … His public service includes serving as Chairman of the New Mexico Community Foundation, Chairman of the … the Public Health Institute, one of the nation’s largest non-profit public health agencies serving communities … improve access, quality, and healthcare outcomes, especially for children and historically excluded communities

34. First-of-its-Kind Study Examines Disparities in Healthcare Costs and Outcomes of Cigarette Smoking in the United States | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - “Minority communities have not reaped very much in medical cost-savings from the large reduction in smoking … reflect the burden of healthcare costs and adverse outcomes of cigarette smoking on racial and ethnic communities

35. EvidenceNow Executive Summary - New York City Cooperative (pdf file)
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    November 01, 2017 - mortality rates from almost all diseases, including CVD, compared with residents of higher income neighborhoods … Investigator “Working in these very small practices, we are seeing how much they are part of their communities … The doctors live in the same neighborhoods as their patients. They speak the same language. … When you support a practice like this, you are supporting the wellbeing of a community.” … New York City Community Health Survey.

36. AHRQ and PCORI Invest in Learning Health Systems Scientist Training | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - efforts to recruit scientists who are representative of the diverse backgrounds and cultures of the communities … will provide training and professional development for scientists in various care settings, engage communities … They will work alongside clinical, health system, and community leaders to produce evidence that can … evidence-based information from research guided by patients, caregivers, and the broader health and healthcare community

37. AHRQ and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Collaborate to Train a New Generation of Learning Health System Scientists | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2023 - Support partnerships with community organizations, healthcare systems, and other stakeholders. … Insights from community organizations about the root causes of local and regional health challenges are … meaningful engagement by calling for partnerships between health systems, academic institutions, and community … spread knowledge, advance health system performance, and improve outcomes that matter to patients and communities … diverse research workforce that is representative of the breadth of backgrounds and cultures of the communities

38. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: A Profile | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2022 - There aren't enough specialists to treat everyone who needs care, especially in rural and underserved communities … AHRQ funded an innovative model, called Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), … for training and supporting primary care clinicians in rural communities to provide specialized care … Discovering how to better provide opioid addiction treatment services in rural communities.

39. AHRQ Research Priorities and Compliance Guidance | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2024 - Priorities include: Research to engage people and communities in care Strategies to engage and empower … Models of community involvement, for example, co-design or community-based participatory research to … Priorities include: Patient, practice, community, and health system level interventions, including … address social determinants of health (SDoH) and optimize health outcomes among high-risk individuals, communities … priorities: Co-design of interventions and co-creating evidence in partnership with patients, caregivers, communities

40. About AHRQ's National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    December 01, 2023 - Fellows Research Initiatives Data Resources Tools and Resources Research Communities … and wellness needs across settings and through sustained relationships with patients, families, and communities … problem, and the clinical process of care as they exist and interact with the social structure, the community