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AHA Disparities Toolkit - Staff Training
The training should provide information about why it is important to collect these data, how to collect data, and how to answer questions or address concerns from patients.
The Health Equity Roadmap: One Year Later
In March 2022, the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity (IFDHE) launched the Health Equity Roadmap, a national framework to advance health equity in hospi
How to Use the AHA Disparities Toolkit
This section provides information about the Toolkit's design and contents.
AHA Disparities Toolkit - Informing and Engaging the Community
Collaboration can help you better align resources with needs, reduce competition, increase effectiveness, and make your results more sustainable.
Who Should Use the AHA Disparities Toolkit
This page provides targeted information on the toolkit for a specific audience or stakeholder.
Health Equity and Value
Ensuring that essential, high-quality health care services are available in all communities should not be impacted by socioeconomic conditions, background or merely by your ZIP code. We believe hospitals and health systems have a great opportunity to improve the health of individuals and partner with the communities they serve.
Meet the Grantees
A list of organizations receiving grants and resources on REaL data, SOGI data, Social Determinants of Health, cultural competency, and partnerships.
Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Measures for Hospitals and Health System Dashboards
Inequities in health care are widely noted, yielding poorer quality of care and reduced patient safety, and increased costs. The economic burden of racial health inequalities in the United States is estimated to be $230 billion dollars. Identifying disparities in health care and effectively intervening to mitigate the effect of these gaps is key to attainting a society of healthy communities, where all individuals reach their highest potential for health. Hospital and health systems may utilize a dashboard to provide health care leaders with the necessary information on their journey to advance health equity, diversity and inclusion. A basic level health equity, diversity and inclusion dashboard may include measures to model the American Hospital Association 123forEquity Pledge to include the following: race, ethnicity and language preference data collection, stratification and use, cultural competency training, diversity and inclusion in governance and leadership, and community partnerships.
AHA Disparities Toolkit - Visually Impaired Populations
Individuals who are blind or visually impaired present unique health communications needs as they seek to access and act upon health information.