The Marmot review final report, “Fair Society, Healthy Lives” – This report proposes new ways to improve everyone’s health and reduce inequalities that it describes as ‘unfair and unjust’. It concluded that, although health inequalities are normally associated with the poor, premature illness and death affects everyone below the wealthiest tier of English society. The health and wellbeing of today’s children, and of those children when they become adults, depend on us having the courage and imagination to do things differently, to put sustainability and well-being before a narrow focus on economic growth and bring about a more equal and fair society.” (Read chapter 1)
Think Cultural Health – An e-learning program providing oral health professionals with basic knowledge and skills related to cultural and linguistic competency, based on the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Minority Health’s National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (the National CLAS Standards).
Addressing the Social Determinants of Children’s Health: A Cliff Analogy – Tree dimensions of health intervention to help people who are falling off of the cliff of good health: providing health services, addressing the social determinants of health, and addressing the social determinants of equity.
CDC’s Healthy Communities Program – The centers for disease control and Prevention (CDC) and its partners are working together to create healthy thriving communities across the United States by reducing chronic diseases and attaining Health Equity through training, mentorship, dissemination of effective models, and investments in communities that jump-start local change. These population-based change strategies have been found to be an effective approach to improving the health of communities.
Cultural competency and Anti-Oppression Resources/Tool– The ClasActVirginia.org tool is a web-based resource guide designed to help health care providers meet the needs of Virginia’s changing demographics. Several search options are available to quickly refine your search among the numerous resources housed in the CLAS website. By entering a keyword, the year of publication, or the target population of interest into the search engine, you can easily find useful articles, websites, organizations and documents relevant to specific CLAS-related issues
The HRET toolkit – A web-based tool that provides hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans information and resources for systematically collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data from patients. Registration is free. Development of the toolkit included input from a National Advisory Panel
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.
The Community Tool Box: Promoting community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources
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?
