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Three faculty-led teams, including two from the SPHHS, are featured on the UMass Amherst website in a story on the innovative ways UMass Amherst researchers are working to promote health equity. The teams, each of which received a 2024 Large-Scale Integrative Research Award (LIRA) from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement, are seeking to close societal health disparities by studying social determinants, engaging communities, and harnessing the power of the arts.
Professor of Community Health Education Susan Shaw 's work in community-based, participatory research as Director of the Center for Community Health Equity Research (CCHER) is highlighted. “Community-based participatory research requires that research partnerships be based on community needs, grounded in understanding the community, and aligned with the mission and goals of the community partner organization,” Shaw explains. “This approach helps rebuild trust in communities that have often experienced extensive research but little investment and can help generate community-led solutions to achieve health equity.”
With funding from the LIRA grant, Shaw and collaborators plan to expand on CCHER’s work by developing a proposal for a National Institutes of Health-supported Center of Excellence in Investigator Development and Community Engagement. Shaw’s collaborators include Kathryn Derose , professor of community health education; Airín Martínez , associate professor of health policy and management; Daniel López-Cevallos , associate professor of community health education; and Linnea Evans , assistant professor of community health education.
The Center of Excellence would provide funding for pilot awards for new investigators—especially those from underrepresented groups—whose research focuses on health equity. The center would also offer hands-on training in participatory approaches; opportunities for individual and peer mentoring; a monthly seminar series and workshops featuring experts on health equity research topics; and opportunities for collaborative research on questions of interest to community members. Participants would learn about proposal development, participatory research approaches, broad dissemination of findings, and how to turn results into community-led action.
The story also examines the work by another group of UMass Amherst researchers to catalyze existing energy and expertise on campus around using Arts-Based Research (ABR) to address inequities in health and the environment. The story notes that ABR is a fast-growing research methodology that uses the systematic process of artmaking as a primary way of understanding and examining experiences—both of researchers and the people they involve in their studies, who are sometimes one and the same.
“Arts-based research is a powerful methodology because of its visceral nature, which aligns nicely with the goals of creating on-the-ground research, intervention, and action in health and environmental research,” explains Professor of Community Health Education Aline Gubrium , who is leading the project. “Art also communicates sensibilities in ways that can’t always be conveyed through text or numbers. Art is also socially connecting. It channels joy and care.”
The team includes Marla Miller , distinguished professor of history; Sally Pirie , professor of child and family studies and director of the CBR Lab ; Elizabeth Krause , professor of anthropology; Sarah Goff , professor of health promotion and policy; and Sandy Litchfield , associate professor of architecture. They have individually conducted arts-based work on health and environmental topics ranging from reproductive justice, population politics, and LGBTQ+ youth mental health to aging and environmental humanities. Now they aim to nurture a network of faculty from around campus—including those in fields like engineering, chemistry, or veterinary sciences that may not, on their face, appear to lend themselves to ABR—to build community and generate ideas around arts-based approaches to research.
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Focus on racial and ethnic health disparities, structural racism and health, gender and sexuality, community-based and participatory research.
Focus on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice; participatory digital, visual, and narrative research methodologies; health promotion
An urgent need to improve the system for people in jail
I FOUNDED AND CO-DIRECT the Health Inequality Lab, and one of the projects that we’re really excited about is one that I’ve partnered on with Crystal Yang, a professor at Harvard Law School who is also affiliated with the Malcolm Wiener Center at HKS. The aim of the project is to improve health care standards and health care provision for the incarcerated population, particularly those who are incarcerated in our nation’s jails.
Over 600,000 people are in jails. It’s often the entry point to prison, but it’s also where a lot of individuals are pretrial. Jails are woefully under-resourced to deal with health problems. The system frequently involves individuals of low socioeconomic status, individuals with low education, minoritized individuals—primarily men—many of whom have never had positive encounters with the health care system. Many of them have never seen a dentist.
Sheriffs that run our county jails will tell you that they did not sign up to be the nation’s foremost mental health care providers. And yet the reality is that we have such woefully inadequate community mental health resources that individuals who are suffering from substance use disorders often end up in jail as well.
Marcella alsan.
Despite all of this, incarcerated individuals have a constitutional right to health care through a decision that was made about five decades ago. An interpretation of the amendment against cruel and unusual punishment is that individuals who are incarcerated have a right to receive health care. And yet, how is that right enforced? What are the practical implications on the ground?
That’s really where research is needed because there’s very little transparency and there is very little oversight of what’s happening in our correctional facilities, particularly our nation’s jails. They’re run at the county level and tend to have the lowest level of resources, compared to state and federal prisons. And there are a lot of challenges that are unique to providing health care for individuals in custody.
It’s hard to think about health from the incarcerated population separately from the general state of the health care system in the United States. Americans lose their lives or livelihoods every day because they are reluctant to seek care or do so but are placed in debt. Our health care industry has been commercialized to the point where it’s almost hard to see the mission anymore. I think, looking back at the experience of the United States through the COVID-19 pandemic, the fact that we performed poorly relative to other developed countries showed all the weaknesses in our current system for delivering health care. We absolutely need a more inclusive system, a system that doesn’t have the churn and the administrative inefficiencies that bedevil our current landscape and generate gross inefficiencies and inequities.
— Marcella Alsan is the Angelopoulos Professor of Public Policy and a physician.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; National Academy of Medicine; Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020–2030; Flaubert JL, Le Menestrel S, Williams DR, et al., editors. The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2021 May 11.
The next 10 years will test the nation’s nearly 4 million nurses in new and complex ways. Nurses live and work at the intersection of health, education, and communities. In the decade since the prior The Future of Nursing report was published ( IOM, 2011 ), the world has come to understand the critical importance of health to all aspects of life, particularly the relationship among social determinants of health (SDOH), health equity, and health outcomes. Consistent with this broader understanding, the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice (NACNEP) (2020) advanced an important set of recommendations that the committee endorses. The NACNEP report Integration of Social Determinants of Health in Nursing Education, Practice, and Research conveys the importance of investing in SDOH and research to strengthen the nursing workforce and help nurses provide more effective care, as well as design, implement, and assess new care models.
In a year that was designated to honor and uplift nursing (the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife 2020 1 ), nurses have been placed in unimaginable circumstances by the COVID-19 pandemic. The decade ahead will demand a stronger, more diversified workforce that is prepared to provide care; promote health and well-being among nurses, individuals, and communities; and address the systemic inequities that have fueled wide and persistent health disparities.
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed in the starkest terms that illness and access to quality health care are unequally distributed across groups and communities, and has spotlighted the reality that much of what affects health happens outside of medical care. The pandemic and continued calls for racial justice have illuminated the extent to which structural racism—from decades of neglect and disinvestment in neighborhoods, schools, communities, and health care to discrimination and bias—has placed communities of color at much higher risk for poor health and well-being.
The committee’s recommendations call for change at both the individual and system levels, constituting a call for action to the nation’s largest health care workforce, including nurses in all settings and at all levels, to listen, engage, deeply examine practices, collect evidence, and act to move the country toward greater health equity for all. The committee’s recommendations also are targeted to the actions required of policy makers, educators, health care system leaders, and payers to enable these crucial changes, supported by the research agenda with which this chapter concludes. With implementation of this report’s recommendations, the committee envisions 10 outcomes that position the nursing profession to contribute meaningfully to achieving health equity (see Box 11-1 ).
Achieving Health Equity Through Nursing: Desired Outcomes.
In this chapter, the committee provides its recommendations for charting a 10-year path forward to enable and support today’s and the next generation of nurses to create fair and just opportunities for health and well-being for everyone. These recommendations are aimed at all nurses, including those working in hospitals, schools, and health departments; policy makers; educators; health care system leaders; and payers. The chapter concludes with a research agenda to fill current and critical gaps that would support this future-oriented path.
In order for nurses to engage fully in efforts to achieve health equity, it will be necessary for nursing organizations to work together to identify priorities for education, practice, and policy, and to develop mechanisms for leveraging existing nursing expertise and resources. Creating a shared agenda will focus efforts and ensure that all nurses—no matter where they are educated or where they practice—are prepared, supported, and empowered to address SDOH and eliminate inequities in health and health care.
Recommendation 1: In 2021, all national nursing organizations should initiate work to develop a shared agenda for addressing social determinants of health and achieving health equity. This agenda should include explicit priorities across nursing practice, education, leadership, and health policy engagement. The Tri-Council for Nursing 2 and the Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations, 3 with their associated member organizations, should work collaboratively and leverage their respective expertise in leading this agenda-setting process. Relevant expertise should be identified and shared across national nursing organizations, including the Federal Nursing Service Council 4 and the National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations. With support from the government, payers, health and health care organizations, and foundations, the implementation of this agenda should include associated timelines and metrics for measuring impact.
Specific actions should include the following:
Promoting health and well-being for all should be a national priority, and a collective and sustained commitment is needed to achieve this priority. To chart this path, nurses should be fully supported with robust education, resources, and autonomy. Key stakeholders should commit to investing fully in strengthening and diversifying the nursing workforce so that it is sufficiently prepared to promote health and appropriately reflects the people and communities it serves. Nursing schools, health care institutions, and public health and community health organizations can do significantly more to empower nurses to raise their voices and use their considerable expertise to improve people’s lives, health, and well-being.
Recommendation 2: By 2023, state and federal government agencies, health care and public health organizations, payers, and foundations should initiate substantive actions to enable the nursing workforce to address social determinants of health and health equity more comprehensively, regardless of practice setting.
This can be accomplished through the following actions:
During the course of their work, nurses encounter physical, mental, emotional, and ethical challenges, and burnout is an increasingly prevalent problem. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated these issues. In order for nurses to help others be healthy and well, they must be healthy and well themselves; a lack of nurse well-being has consequences for nurses, patients, employers, and communities. As nurses are asked to take a more prominent role in advancing health equity, it will become even more imperative that all stakeholders—including educators, employers, leaders, and nurses themselves—take steps to ensure nurse well-being.
Recommendation 3: By 2021, nursing education programs, employers, nursing leaders, licensing boards, and nursing organizations should initiate the implementation of structures, systems, and evidence-based interventions to promote nurses’ health and well-being, especially as they take on new roles to advance health equity.
This can be accomplished by taking the following steps:
Nurses often have untapped potential to help people live their healthiest lives because their education and experience are grounded in caring for the whole person and whole family in a community context. However, this potential is too often underutilized. Nurses, particularly RNs, need environments that facilitate their ability to fully leverage their skills and expertise across all practice settings—in hospitals, primary care settings, rural and underserved areas, homes, community organizations, long-term care facilities, and schools. To engage fully in advancing health equity, all nurses need the autonomy to practice to the full extent of their education and training, even as they work collaboratively with other health professionals. They are, however, frequently hindered in this regard by restrictive laws and institutional policies. Policy makers and health care systems need to lift permanently all barriers that stand in the way of nurses in their efforts to address the root causes of poor health, expand access to care, and create more equitable communities.
Recommendation 4: All organizations, including state and federal entities and employing organizations, should enable nurses to practice to the full extent of their education and training by removing barriers that prevent them from more fully addressing social needs and social determinants of health and improving health care access, quality, and value. These barriers include regulatory and public and private payment limitations; restrictive policies and practices; and other legal, professional, and commercial 6 impediments.
To this end, the following specific actions should be prioritized:
Nurses are bridge builders, engaging and connecting with individuals, communities, public health and health care, and social services organizations to improve health for all. Without strong financial and institutional support, however, their reach and impact are limited. How care is paid for can determine one’s access to and the quality of care. Thus, it is important to improve and strengthen the design of public and private payment models so nurses are supported, encouraged, and incentivized to bridge health and social needs for people, families, and communities. Nurses also can play a key role in helping to design those models. Also important is for local, state, and federal governments to place more value on the vital role of school and public health nurses in advancing health equity by adequately funding and deploying these nurses where they are needed to promote health in communities.
Recommendation 5: Federal, tribal, state, local, and private payers and public health agencies should establish sustainable and flexible payment mechanisms to support nurses in both health care and public health, including school nurses, in addressing social needs, social determinants of health, and health equity.
Specific payment reforms should include the following:
The advent and adoption of new technologies have dramatically changed nursing practice over the past several decades, and will continue to do so into the future. Given the rapid acceleration of technical advances, nurses practicing in the coming decade will need to be adept at and comfortable with using emerging technology and have the skills to support others in doing the same. Nurses are well positioned to design, adopt, and adapt new technologies in practice and leverage data on SDOH to identify and address the needs of populations, individualize care, and reduce health disparities. With care expanding beyond the walls of traditional health care settings, including hospitals and clinics, the deployment of such advanced technologies as artificial intelligence and telehealth can assist nurses in connecting to health care networks, reaching individuals in their homes and other settings, and promoting health and well-being within communities. As key stakeholders in the design, adoption, and evaluation of new care tools, nurses also need to understand how to use new technologies to reduce rather than exacerbate inequities.
Recommendation 6: All public and private health care systems should incorporate nursing expertise in designing, generating, analyzing, and applying data to support initiatives focused on social determinants of health and health equity using diverse digital platforms, artificial intelligence, and other innovative technologies.
Regardless of the setting in which they work or their level of education, nurses of the future will be expected to have a sophisticated understanding of social needs, SDOH, and health equity and to be capable of applying this knowledge in their practice. The World Health Organization has emphasized the importance of monitoring equitable service coverage across wealth and education gradients as part of achieving universal health coverage. Similarly, leading public health researchers have advocated for using markers of health equity to monitor health and health care as a first step in confronting inequities. Recognizing and meeting social needs could both lower health care spending and improve health outcomes.
Nursing schools need to prepare nurses to understand and identify the social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health by embedding content on SDOH throughout their curricula. Schools need to ensure that nurses have substantive, enduring, relevant community-based experiences and that they value diverse perspectives and cultures in order to help all people and families thrive. Nurses should have this content updated and reinforced throughout their careers through continuing education.
Recommendation 7: Nursing education programs, including continuing education, and accreditors and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing should ensure that nurses are prepared to address social determinants of health and achieve health equity.
To implement this recommendation, deans, administrative faculty leaders, faculty, course directors, and staff of nursing education programs should take the following steps:
Accreditors should take the following actions:
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing and specialty certification organizations should take the following action:
Continuing education providers should take the following action:
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the vital role of nurses on the front lines of crises—whether in the hospital intensive care unit, a community testing site, or an emergency shelter—in keeping communities safe and healthy and helping people and families cope. They are reliable, trusted, experienced, and proven responders during both public health emergencies and natural disasters, such as hurricanes and wildfires. But fundamental reforms and a stronger disaster preparedness infrastructure are needed to improve nursing education, practice, and policy so nurses are fully protected during such events and can better protect and care for recovering populations.
Recommendation 8: To enable nurses to address inequities within communities, federal agencies and other key stakeholders within and outside the nursing profession should strengthen and protect the nursing workforce during the response to such public health emergencies as the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters, including those related to climate change.
To this end, the following steps should be taken:
Strengthening and diversifying the nursing workforce of the future, fostering nurse well-being, and developing strong and impactful nurse leaders so that nurses can fully address the wide and persistent health disparities in the United States will require a robust and rigorous evidence base. Below, the committee prioritizes the research needs and identifies gaps in the knowledge base that, if filled, would substantially move the nursing profession forward in the future.
Recommendation 9: The National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Administration for Children and Families, the Administration for Community Living, and private associations and foundations should convene representatives from nursing, public health, and health care to develop and support a research agenda and evidence base describing the impact of nursing interventions, including multisector collaboration, on social determinants of health, environmental health, health equity, and nurses’ health and well-being.
These efforts should be focused on the following actions:
Across all of these efforts, nurses should partner with key community stakeholders in research design; identification of the characteristics of new health models; and the development of related institutional and public policies at the health system, public health, and community levels. To expand the cohort of nurse researchers engaged in this research agenda, NINR should offer continuous summer intensive seminars to build expertise in population health, SDOH, and health equity. Table 11-1 summarizes gaps in the current research base that have been identified throughout this report.
Research Topics for the Future of Nursing, 2020–2030.
The nursing profession is vital to the nation’s creation of a culture of health, reduction of health disparities, and improvement in the health and well-being of the population. The committee’s nine recommendations provide a comprehensive path forward for policy makers, practicing nurses, educators, health care system leaders, researchers, and payers to enable and support the nurses of today and the future in creating fair and just opportunities for health and well-being for everyone. The social, political, and health care trends discussed in this report, while replete with myriad challenges, also offer nurses new opportunities for practice and collaboration. Nurses will need to continue to adapt and respond to new and developing health problems at both the individual and community levels, and to deepen their understanding of how social, economic, and environmental issues and systemic barriers affect the health and well-being of the people and communities they serve. The rapidly deployed changes in community-based and clinical care, nursing education, nursing leadership, and nursing–community partnerships resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have amplified those challenges. The deployment of all levels of nurses across the care continuum, including in collaborative practice models, will be necessary to address the challenges of building a more equitable and accessible health care system.
The United States is at an inflection point with respect to addressing disparities in health and well-being that have adversely impacted too many people for too long. The nation’s health care system is also at an inflection point in terms of meeting consumers’ health needs in ways and in places commensurate with their preferences. It is imperative that the nursing profession focus on the training and competency development needed to prepare nurses, including advanced practice nurses, to work competently in home and community-based as well as acute care settings and to lead efforts to build a culture of health and health equity. There is no time to waste. Over the next 10 years, nurses will assume even greater responsibility for helping to build an accessible, equitable, high-quality public health and health care system that works for everyone. The recommendations in this report are aimed at ensuring that nurses are inspired, supported, valued, and empowered in pursuing that goal so that by 2030, all individuals and communities will have the opportunities they need to live healthy lives.
See https://www .who.int/campaigns /annual-theme /year-of-the-nurse-and-the-midwife-2020 (accessed April 12, 2021).
The Tri-Council for Nursing includes the following organizations as members: the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the American Nurses Association, the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, and the National League for Nursing.
The Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations includes the following organizations as members: the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, the American Nurses Association, the American Public Health Association—Public Health Nursing Section, the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators, the Association of Public Health Nurses, and the Rural Nurse Organization.
The Federal Nursing Service Council is a united federal nursing leadership team representing the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, National Guard and Reserves, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, American Red Cross, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Graduate School of Nursing.
Resilience engineering is focused on “understanding the nature of adaptations, learning from success and increasing adaptive capacity” ( Anderson et al., 2016 , p. 1).
The term “commercial” refers to contractual agreements and customary practices that make antiquated or unjustifiable assumptions about nursing.
Under the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), “nurses can practice in other NLC states without having to obtain additional licenses. The current NLC allows for RNs and LPNs/licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) to have one multistate license in any one of the 35 member states” (see https://www .ncsbn.org/nlcmemberstates .pdf ). According to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN), “An APRN must hold an individual state license in each state of APRN practice” (see https://www .ncsbn.org/2018_eNLC_FAQs.pdf ). There is a movement, organized by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, to have an APRN Compact (see https://aprncompact .com/about.htm ) (all accessed April 12, 2021).
See https://sirenetwork .ucsf .edu/TheGravityProject (accessed April 12, 2021).
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