Health Equity Resources

• “A Time of Opportunity: Local solutions to reduce inequities in health and safety”- Presented to the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Disparities in Minneapolis, Minnesota in May 2009. Help in making the paradigm shift from health disparities to health inequities and why it is necessary.
• Asset-Based Community Development Institute - ABCD and its affiliated faculty have created a library of community building workbooks, published scholarly articles, books, and chapters oriented to an array of audiences, and developed training curricula and other materials associated with the asset-based community development approach.
• Global Learning Device on Social Determinants of Health and Public Policy Formulation - Course Guide
  
• Health Literacy Consulting - Helps individuals and organizations communicate health information in ways patients, families, and employees can understand
• Healthy Development Measurement Tool: An evidence-based practice to consider public health objectives in land use planning (San Francisco Department of Health)
• Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project Monograph
• Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: A Handbook for Action - Provides a knowledge base and innovative approaches for transforming everyday public health practice, departmental structure, and organizational culture in ways that may advance the attack on the root causes of inequities in the distribution of disease and illness
• The Community Tool Box: Promoting community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources
• The Solid Facts - A report from the World Health Organization summarizing the major SDOHs and their impacts on health, 2003

Advocacy

• "A" Frame for Advocacy

Commission Reports on Health Equity

• 1974 LaLonde Report: "A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians" (Health Promotion Agency)
• Acheson Report: The Inquiry into Inequalities in Health, Implications for London
• Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health Report
• King County Equity and Social Justice Initiative
• "Reaching for a Healthier Life: Facts on Socioeconomic Status and Health in the USA" - Report from the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on SES & Health
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America
• "Unnatural Causes" Policy Guide
• World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health

Education

• Kellogg Health Scholars Program - This program develops new leadership in the effort to reduce and eliminate health disparities and to secure equal access to the conditions and services essential for achieving healthy communities.

Health Care

• Improving Health Outcomes Through Collaboration: The Health Disparities Collaboratives
• Those With Sickle Cell Disease Experience Pain More Often Than Researchers Originally Thought, Study Finds

Health Equity News

• Blacks May be Less Likely to Enroll in Clinical Trials Because They Mistrust Physicians, Study Finds
• Connections - First issue of the bi-monthly National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention
• Doctors Miss Cultural Needs, Study Says, New York Times - June 10, 2008
• Life Expectancy Declines in Some U.S. Populations, Primarily Those in Deep South, Appalachia, Study Finds
• Poor? Pay Up (Why and in what ways the poor pay more)
• Racial Disparity in Poverty Rate for Elderly Wider Than Government Says
• Research Finds Wide Disparities in Health Care by Race and Region, New York Times - June 5, 2008
• UnitedHealthcare Backs Program to Reduce Racial Disparities, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal - March 15, 2007

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Federal and State Government Resources

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Minority Health
• Children's Environmental Health Disparities - U.S. EPA publications
• Health United States: An annual report on trends in health statistics
• HHS Data Council
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HRSA)
• Minority Health
• Health Literacy
• Medicare Coverage of Diabetes Supplies and Services
• Staying Healthy: Medicare's Preventive Services
• Kaiser Family Foundation's State Health Facts Online
• National Center for Health Statistics' FASTATS
• Virginia Atlas of Community Health
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Office of Minority Health
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2007 National Healthcare Disparities Report

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Interventions

• About the Finding Answers Intervention Research (FAIR) Database
• Environmental Nutrition and Activity Community Tool (ENACT) - ENACT is a concrete menu of strategies designed to help you improve nutrition and activity environments on a local level. These strategies have been organized into seven environments that were carefully selected for their importance in individual and community health
• Promoting Health Equity, A Resource to Help Communities Address Social Determinants of Health - A workbook for community-based organizations, public health practitioners, and community health partners seeking to create health equity by addressing the social determinants of health
• THRIVE - THRIVE is a tool to help you understand and prioritize the factors within your own community that can help improve health and safety. The tool can help answer questions such as: How can I identify key factors in my community and rate their importance? How are these factors related to health outcomes? What can I do to address each factor? Where can I go for more information?
• Upstream Pathways for Health Inequities
• Upstream vs. Traditional Public Health

Minority Populations in Virginia

• U.S. Census Bureau's Facts about Virginia

There are five federally recognized minority populations in Virginia:

• African-American/Black
• Hispanic/Latino
• Asian-American
• Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
• American Indian and Alaskan Native

 

Racism

• Race Matters - Toolkit from the Annie E. Casey Foundation designed to help decision-makers, advocates, and elected officials get better results in their work by providing equitable opportunities for all

Resources to Support Access to Healthy Foods

• “Community Food Security in United States Cities: A Survey of the Relevant Scientific Literature” - This resource examines food security literature from four core dimensions that include: consumption level pertains to the number of meals eaten per day, the amount being eaten, and the degree of regularity of meals; quality refers to both the nutritional aspects of food and personal, subjective preferences; sources indicates both the foundations from which foods are supplied and the personal and cultural acceptance of the sources; and cost dimension is central to fully considering components that compose food security/insecurity.
• Food Co-op 500 - The Food Co-op 500 Program is a support system that seeks to enable a faster and more efficient start-up process to develop new retail grocery co-ops.
• Food Co-op 500: News & Views – Volume 2, Issue 5
• Garden Mosaics: Connection youth and elders to investigate the mosaic of plants, people, and cultures in gardens
• The Food Trust's Supermarket Campaign
• Healthy Corner Stores Network
• Healthy Eating and the Built Environment: Improving Access to Healthy Food Options
• Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Improving Access and Opportunities Through Food Retailing
• National Farm to School Program

Webcasts

• Health Status Disparities in the United States (Conference Materials and Videos)
• Putting Women's Health Care Disparities on the Map: Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities at the State Level
• Tutorial from the Kaiser Family Foundation on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

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Additional Resources

• Calculate Your Disease Risk
• Center for Applied Research and Public Policy (Norfolk State University)
• Data Set Directory of Social Determinants of Health at the Local Level - This directory contains an extensive list of existing data sets that can be used to address the social determinants of health.
• Global Learning Device on Social Determinants of Health and Public Policy Formulation - The World Health Organization has launched a new online course on the social determinants of health. The course consists of an online tutorial with four learning units that make connections between health, and equity, social justice and human rights. It is intended to provide insight on the social determinants of health in order to encourage changes in policy that promote and protect the health of a population. The course is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and is targeted to WHO staff members and other health ministry officials but is free to access and fully available to the public.
• Healthfinder.gov - Your Guide to Reliable Health Information, sponsored by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
• Healthy People Library Project
• Healthy Minorities, Healthier America
• National Women's Health Resource Center
• OMHRC: New Knowledge Center Resources
• Presentations from the 2009 Virginia Health Equity Conference
• Prevalence of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Physical Activity by Race-Ethnicity in the United States
• Putting Women's Health Care Disparities on the Map: Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities at the State Level provides a rare state-level look at disparities among women of different races and ethnicities on a broad range of indicators of health and well-being. State-specific fact sheets and interactive maps and data tables that draw on the report findings are presented here.
• Telamon Corporation
• Transcultural C.A.R.E. Associates
• Women of Color Health Data Book

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