Funding Health Equity Interventions
Addressing health-related social needs and advancing health equity requires financial resources, both upfront (i.e. grants) and continuing (i.e. reimbursement). Funding is often available, but difficult to find. This page provides links to potential funding resources (such as grants), as well as guidance on grant writing, and reimbursement resources.
Grant Writing and Funding Resources
Grant Funding for Programs that Advance Health Equity — RHI Hub
- Kansas Rural Health & Prosperity Grants Workshop Resources — Kansas Department of Commerce
- Grant Writing Toolkit — Center for Rural Health
- Kansas Safe Routes to School — Kansas Department of Transportation
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Reimbursement
Health-Related Social Needs FAQ — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Reimbursement Strategies for Employers of Community Health Workers — A Toolkit — Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) and the Health Forward Foundation
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A program of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Definitions
Health disparity
inequities in the quality of health, health care, and health outcomes experienced by groups based on social, racial, ethnic, economic, and environmental characteristics
Health equity
the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health
Health-related social needs (HRSN)
an individual’s unmet, adverse social conditions (e.g., housing instability, homelessness, nutrition insecurity) that contribute to poor health and are a result of underlying social drivers of health (SDOH)
Social drivers of health (SDOH)
also known as “social determinants of health,” the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age that are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources and impacted by factors such as institutional bias, discrimination, racism, and more
Resources are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by KFMC or its partners.
