State Department of Health’s Equitable Funding Allocation Methodology to Address Covid-19 Health Disparities Among High-Risk and Underserved Populations

Bibliographic Data

ID11040233
AuthorsJamie Abelson (0000-0003-2820-8893, Washington State Department of Health), Jamie M Abelson (Jamie M. Abelson, Hannah Burgess, Brittany Ribeiro Brown, and Daphne C. Watkins are with the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center for Health Equity Research and Training, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor. Frances Limtiaco, Elisabeth Long, and Eric Allen are with the Washington State Department of Health, Tumwater. Daniel Hannawalt-Morales is with Community Health Organization Improving Care and Equity, Olympia, WA.), Hannah Burgess (Jamie M. Abelson, Hannah Burgess, Brittany Ribeiro Brown, and Daphne C. Watkins are with the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center for Health Equity Research and Training, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor. Frances Limtiaco, Elisabeth Long, and Eric Allen are with the Washington State Department of Health, Tumwater. Daniel Hannawalt-Morales is with Community Health Organization Improving Care and Equity, Olympia, WA.), Hannah M Burgess (0000-0003-3577-4746, Washington State Department of Health), Frances Limtiaco (Jamie M. Abelson, Hannah Burgess, Brittany Ribeiro Brown, and Daphne C. Watkins are with the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center for Health Equity Research and Training, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor. Frances Limtiaco, Elisabeth Long, and Eric Allen are with the Washington State Department of Health, Tumwater. Daniel Hannawalt-Morales is with Community Health Organization Improving Care and Equity, Olympia, WA.), Elisabeth Long (0000-0002-9359-9168, Jamie M. Abelson, Hannah Burgess, Brittany Ribeiro Brown, and Daphne C. Watkins are with the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center for Health Equity Research and Training, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor. Frances Limtiaco, Elisabeth Long, and Eric Allen are with the Washington State Department of Health, Tumwater. Daniel Hannawalt-Morales is with Community Health Organization Improving Care and Equity, Olympia, WA.), Brittany Ribeiro Brown (0000-0002-6015-9430, Jamie M. Abelson, Hannah Burgess, Brittany Ribeiro Brown, and Daphne C. Watkins are with the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center for Health Equity Research and Training, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor. Frances Limtiaco, Elisabeth Long, and Eric Allen are with the Washington State Department of Health, Tumwater. Daniel Hannawalt-Morales is with Community Health Organization Improving Care and Equity, Olympia, WA.), Daniel Hannawalt-Morales (Jamie M. Abelson, Hannah Burgess, Brittany Ribeiro Brown, and Daphne C. Watkins are with the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center for Health Equity Research and Training, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor. Frances Limtiaco, Elisabeth Long, and Eric Allen are with the Washington State Department of Health, Tumwater. Daniel Hannawalt-Morales is with Community Health Organization Improving Care and Equity, Olympia, WA.), Eric Allen (0000-0002-3569-8117, Jamie M. Abelson, Hannah Burgess, Brittany Ribeiro Brown, and Daphne C. Watkins are with the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center for Health Equity Research and Training, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor. Frances Limtiaco, Elisabeth Long, and Eric Allen are with the Washington State Department of Health, Tumwater. Daniel Hannawalt-Morales is with Community Health Organization Improving Care and Equity, Olympia, WA.), Eric E Allen (0000-0002-1229-8794, Washington State Department of Health), Daphne C Watkins (0000-0002-6350-7891, Jamie M. Abelson, Hannah Burgess, Brittany Ribeiro Brown, and Daphne C. Watkins are with the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis Center for Health Equity Research and Training, University of Michigan School of Social Work, Ann Arbor. Frances Limtiaco, Elisabeth Long, and Eric Allen are with the Washington State Department of Health, Tumwater. Daniel Hannawalt-Morales is with Community Health Organization Improving Care and Equity, Olympia, WA.)
Year2024
Volume114
IssueS7
PagesS575-S579
Publication date2024-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2024.307833
PMID39197133
OpenAlexW4401941603
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited3

The Washington State Department of Health developed an equitable funding allocation methodology incorporating quantitative and qualitative decision-making components. We describe the methodology and an implementation evaluation performed by an external evaluation team using the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance) evaluation framework. The evaluation team concluded that the methodology was developed in a way that used a racial equity lens and prioritized intersectionalities in the communities that the funding was intended to serve. ( Am J Public Health. 2024;114(S7):S575–S579. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307833 )

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Equity (law) · Health department · Health equity · Inequality · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Political science · Public health · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · Health Policy Implementation Science · Healthcare Policy and Management · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Primary Care and Health Outcomes

Tools

Open DOIOpen Access