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How the Advocate Health – Midwest Library supports Advancing Health Equity

by Elizabeth Suelzer, MLIS, AHIP on 2024-08-26T13:48:00-05:00 | 0 Comments

Advocate Health has Six Pledges that are a road map for our success as a combined organization. Over the next few months, we are showing how the Advocate Health - Midwest Library supports each of these pledges. The pledge we are highlighting this month is to Advance Health Equity

Advocate Health is committed to advancing health equity by addressing disparities in access to care, clinical outcomes, and social drivers of health, particularly in underserved communities. Our enterprise-wide model focuses on addressing provider shortages, leveraging shared infrastructure and capabilities to improve the health, and deploying innovative delivery and care models. 

Librarians support this goal by providing seamless, electronic access to robust health information resources for teammates wherever they might be working; creating curated lists of current resources for teammates working with specific populations; and we participate in and promote library resources at DEI fairs around the Midwest Region at Advocate Health hospitals. 

Featured Library Resources

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Health Equity & Disparities Guide: contains curated lists of books, journals, websites, and other resources

Find full text access to health care services journals such as: 

View a list of over 110 eBooks on health equity that are available from the Advocate Health - Midwest Library, including:

Cover ArtAchieving Rural Health Equity and Well-Being by Karen Anderson, Steve Olson
Publication Date: 2018
This publication summarizes the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop; exploring the impacts of economic, demographic and social issues in rural communities and to learn about asset-based approaches to addressing the associated challenges.
 
 
 
Cover ArtCommunities in Action by James N. Weinstein, Amy Geller, et al
Publication Date: 2017
This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
 
 
 
Cover ArtImmigration As a Social Determinant of Health by Karen M. Anderson, Steve Olson
Publication Date: 2019
This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity workshop; exploring the link between immigration and health disparities.
 
 

Scholarly Showcase

Advocate Health teammates contribute to the advancing health equity through various projects, some of which result in publications and national or international conference presentations. The Advocate Health - Midwest Library has curated a list of recent publications and conference presentations related to safety and quality from SHARE, our institutional repository.


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