The following resources provide information and strategies to help communities, programs, and initiatives work to remove barriers to health and achieve health equity.
Health Equity Resources
By: Nancy R. Asare (Example Author)
Tools to Help Remove Barriers to Health
The following resources provide information and strategies to help communities, programs, and initiatives work to remove barriers to health and achieve health equity.
Tools for Putting Social Determinants of Health into Action are CDC resources to help practitioners take action to address social determinants of health.
Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity helps communities address disparities by making improvements where people live, learn, work and play. It describes skills and strategies to address tobacco use, healthy food and beverages, and active living.
Health Equity Data
Health Equity Resource Toolkit for State Practitioners Addressing Obesity Disparities pdf icon[PDF-3.77MB] is for state health departments and their partners. The material is designed to increase their capacity to work with communities to help prevent obesity. The primary focus is on how to create systems and environmental changes that will reduce obesity disparities and achieve health equity. The accompanying website is a guide for using the toolkit.
Example Contact: Nancy@calcancer.org
- Data, Trends, and Maps has state and national indicators for obesity/weight status, breastfeeding, fruits and vegetables, physical activity, sugary drinks, and television viewing. For health equity data, choose race/ethnicity or other demographic in the “view by” field.
- Chronic Disease Indicators provides data for 18 categories. For heath equity data, choose race/ethnicity and gender in the “view by” field.
- Aerobic and Muscle-Strengthening Physical Activity by Race/Ethnicity Across Income Levelsexternal icon reports trends among US adults, 1998–2018.
- Minority Population Profilesexternal icon includes demographic, education, economic, insurance coverage, and health status information.
- Diagnosed Diabetes provides data by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and education.
- Places: Local Data for Better Health includes chronic disease measures by location.
- Healthy People 2020 Overview of Health Disparities shows changes in disparities during the Healthy People 2020 tracking period. An interactive chart and table can be filtered by topic area and population characteristics, including sex, race and ethnicity, educational attainment, family income, disability status, and geographic location.