A practitioner's guide for advancing health equity: Community strategies for preventing chronic disease

Individual Author(s) / Organizational Author
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Publisher
CDC
Date
January 2013
Abstract / Description

A Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity is a resource for practitioners, partners, and stakeholders working to advance health equity through community health interventions. While health disparities can be addressed at multiple levels, this resource focuses on policy, systems, and environmental improvement strategies designed to improve the places where people live, learn, work, and play. Many of the 20th and 21st century’s greatest public health achievements (e.g., water fluoridation, motor vehicle safety, food safety) have relied on the use of laws, regulations, and environmental improvement strategies. Health practitioners play an important role in these improvements by engaging the community, identifying needs, conducting analyses, developing partnerships, as well as implementing and evaluating evidence-based interventions.

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Artifact Type
Application
Reference Type
Book Chapter/Book
Priority Population
Ethnic and racial groups
Households experiencing poverty
Topic Area
Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing » Chronic Disease