A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity is a resource for public health practitioners working to advance health equity through community health interventions. It provides lessons learned and practices from the field, as well as from the existing evidence-base. While health disparities can be addressed at multiple levels, this guide focuses on policy, systems, and environmental improvements designed to improve the places where people live, learn, work, and play.
This resource offers ideas on how to maximize the effects of several policy, systems, and environmental improvement strategies with a goal to reduce health inequities and advance health equity. Additionally, the resource will help communities incorporate the concept of health equity into core components of public health practice such as organizational capacity, partnerships, community engagement, identifying health inequities, and evaluation.
Click here to view the Practitioner’s Guide or click here to download sections of the complete guide.
Listed below is a guide to help you understand your options and your responsibilities as it pertains to the new health care law. In this guide you will also find exact steps you can take and when and where to take them.
Health Reform Guide
Following is a list of resources which provide Cultural Compentency self-assessment tools.
• BAHRII Local Health Department Organizational Self-Assessment for Addressing Health Inequities Toolkit: http://www.barhii.org/resources/downloads/self_assessment_toolkit.pdf
• Conducting a Cultural Competence Self-Assessment: http://erc.msh.org/provider/andrulis.pdf
• Cultural Competence Checklist − Personal Reflection: http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/Cultural-Competence-Checklist-Personal-Reflection.pdf
• Cultural Competence Checklist – Policies & Procedures: http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/Cultural-Competence-Checklist-Policies-Procedures.pdf
• Cultural Competence Checklist – Service Delivery: http://www.asha.org/uploadedFiles/Cultural-Competence-Checklist-Service-Delivery.pdf
• Cultural Competence Self-Test: http://www.healthystartpinellas.org/pdf/Self_Assess_5.pdf (unable to determine original source)
• Cultural Competence Self-Assessment Questionnaire: http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mason.pdf
• Indicators of Cultural Competence in Health Care Delivery Organizations: http://www.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/healthdlvr.pdf
• National Center for Cultural Competence Self-Assessments and Checklists: http://nccc.georgetown.edu/resources/assessments.html
• NYSPI-CECC Cultural Competence Assessment Directory: http://www.nyspi.org/culturalcompetence/what/pdf/NYSPI-CECC_CulturalCompetenceAssessment.pdf
• A Listing of Cultural Competence Assessment Tools: Word Document
Companion website to Unnatural Causes . . . is inequality making us sick? A four-hour documentary exploring racial and socioeconomic inequities in health
Families USA is a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Working at the national, state, and community levels, Families USA has earned a national reputation as an effective voice for health care consumers for 25 years.