The New Hampshire Health & Equity Partnership is a public-private collaborative effort of philanthropic organizations, public health agencies, community based organizations, advocates and others concerned with health equity.  The Partnership is guided in its work by the Plan to Address Health Disparities and Promote Health Equity in New Hampshire. The goal of the plan is to define statewide priorities and prepare recommendations to advance health equity for NH’s racial, ethnic, and linguistic minority communities.

The Plan’s framework of strategic priority areas includes:

• Access to Health Care
• Addressing Environments Where We Live, Learn, Work and Play to Improve Health
• Awareness and Promotion of Health Equity
• Improving Data Collection and Use to Identify Issues.

The Plan to Address Health Disparities and Promote Health Equity in New Hampshire considers health equity within the broad framework of social determinants such as education, housing, employment, environment, and other factors that influence health status and access to quality health care for individuals and communities.  By addressing health disparities at their source we will improve health and health care for minority communities and for the general population statewide.

Newly interested individuals and organizations are encouraged to get involved.  Please contact Rebecca Sky for more information.

Publications Related to the NH Health & Partnership

• Plan to Address Health Disparities and Promote Health Equity in New Hampshire (February 2011)
• Framing Document for Health Equity Planning (July 2010) – Endowment for Health, Foundation for Healthy Communities, NH Minority Health Coalition, NH DHHS Office of Minority Health & Refugee Affairs,
• Guidance to Hospitals on Collecting Patient Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data (January 2011) - Foundation for Healthy Communities
• Assessment of Race, Ethnicity and Language Data Collection in New Hampshire Public Health Data Sets (September 2010) – NH Institute of Health Policy and Practice
• NH Health Provider Communication Access Survey Executive Summary (September 2010) - Foundation for Healthy Communities