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

Abelson, Jamie M; Burgess, Hannah; Limtiaco, Frances; Long, Elisabeth; Brown, Brittany Ribeiro; Hannawalt-Morales, Daniel; Allen, Eric; Watkins, Daphne C · Am J Public Health · 2024

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Abstract

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. (<i>Am J Public Health</i>. 2024;114(S7):S575-S579. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307833).

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