HPIO’s work on health equity focuses on policy options that eliminate health disparities and inequities across population groups so that every Ohioan has fair opportunities.
Moving toward Equity
This Toolkit is provides information about how to use evaluation to move towards equity. It includes guidance, tools and resources.
This brief outlines the root causes of mental health challenges for youth at risk for justice involvement and includes nine policy options that state policymakers can implement
Data snapshot
This data snapshot explores some of the underlying reasons why some groups of Columbus residents live shorter and less healthy lives.
Data snapshot
This data snapshot highlights the potential impact of a proposed refundable $1,000 state child tax credit for eligible families with children 6 years old and under.
Uplifting community voice
Data snapshot
Criminal Justice and Health
The latest in a series of publications on the link between criminal justice and health, the brief includes data and information on the structural and social drivers of violence.
Moving toward Equity
This Toolkit is provides information about how to use evaluation to move towards equity. It includes guidance, tools and resources.
Uplifting Community Voices
Housing is a foundational driver of health. Stable and safe housing influences access to jobs, healthy food, quality healthcare and educational opportunities.
Policy considerations
A brief data overview of cannabis use in Ohio and policy considerations for the development of a new regulatory framework for recreational cannabis.
Connections between criminal justice and health:
Social Drivers of Infant Mortality:
HPIO produced the Social Drivers of Infant Mortality: Recommendations for Action and Accountability report. This action guide takes a closer look at eliminating racism recommendations in the report.
Unlocking Ohio’s economic potential:
This analysis from HPIO looks at the economic potential associated with eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in Ohio, finding that...
HPIO’s fifth edition of the Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress toward improved health value Download...
Social Drivers of Infant Mortality:
For many years, policymakers and community leaders across Ohio have worked to reduce high rates of infant mortality. Decisionmakers have...
Connections between criminal justice and health:
This brief was financially assisted by the Ohio State Bar Foundation Every Ohioan wants to live in a community...
Every expecting Ohioan deserves the opportunity for a healthy pregnancy and a safe delivery. Stark differences in maternal health outcomes signal that not everyone has what they need to live a...
Connections between racism and health:
Every Ohioan benefits when Ohio is healthy and economically vibrant. Though all Ohioans deserve the opportunity to be healthy, stark differences in health outcomes signal that not every Ohioan has...
Connections between racism and health:
To ensure that Ohio is a healthy and economically vibrant state, Ohioans must work collaboratively across the public and private sectors to address the complex barriers facing communities...
Connections between criminal justice and health:
Building on HPIO’s Connections between Criminal Justice and Health policy brief released in June, this brief highlights the many ways that racism impacts criminal justice outcomes...
Connections between racism and health:
Ensuring that every Ohioan has a fair opportunity to achieve good health and well-being is a shared value in both...
CelebrateOne contracted with HPIO to complete a final report summarizing the outcome and process evaluation results of Healthy Beginnings at...
According to the HPIO Health Value Dashboard™, Ohio ranks 47 out of 50 states and D.C. on health value — a composite measure of population health outcomes and healthcare spending...
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress toward health value
Fact sheet:
Stable, affordable and safe housing is critical for good health. Limited high-quality housing stock forces many Ohioans into housing...
Fact sheet:
Transportation access is critical for getting to health care, jobs, childcare, grocery stores and other resources.
Ohio COVID-19 disparities by race and ethnicity:
The disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on communities of color across the U.S. and in Ohio, particularly within the Black/African...
Connections between racism and health:
Data and research evidence are clear that racism is a systemic and ongoing crisis with serious consequences for the health and wellbeing of Ohioans.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting communities of color in the U.S.
The Health Policy Institute of Ohio’s Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress towards health value.
Closing Ohio’s health gaps:
HPIO is hosted an equity messaging forum on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, to explore how to tailor messages about health issues, particularly those impacting our most marginalized communities, to appeal...
More than a century of research has found strong connections between income and health.
The HPIO Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress towards health value.
The HPIO Health Value Dashboard™, the first-of-its-kind combined state ranking of health outcomes and healthcare costs, shows that Ohio’s health value rank is 47.
There are evidence-informed policy solutions to reduce incarceration and improve health in Ohio.
HPIO has developed a series of publications to explore health care affordability challenges facing Ohioans.
Meeting the moment: Using data for policy progress
This interactive workshop will include information and resources about how to use evaluation to advance equity in central Ohio.
This interactive lunch and learn will explore how Ohio leaders can create opportunities for residents of the Mahoning Valley to thrive.
The Summit will draw insights from HPIO’s 2026 Health Value Dashboard to focus attention on the factors that drive population health and healthcare spending and build momentum for policy priorities that lead to improved health and well-being for Ohioans.
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