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A Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
A practitioner's guide for advancing health equity: Community strategies for preventing chronic disease (PDF) helps public health professionals incorporate the goal of health equity into current public health practice.
This guide was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is made up of seven four-page sections. It helps the user think concretely about how to incorporate the goals of health equity into foundational public health practices, such as community engagement, collaboration and partnership, and designing and implementing public health strategies. They include:
- Organizational capacity
- Meaningful community engagement
- Developing partnerships and coalitions
- Identifying and understanding health Inequities
- Health-equity oriented strategy selection, design, and implementation
- Making the case for health equity
- Addressing health equity in evaluation efforts
When to use
This resource could be used by local health departments as a quick reference guide when planning health equity strategies or assessing current organizational practices.
Things to consider
Guidance in these documents is high-level. It may be helpful when reflecting on how to incorporate health equity into current public health activities, but more work may be needed to determine how to implement ideas in this document at the local level.
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