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REPORTS
Health Equity Through Action: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward
- Leverage Evidence-Based Practices
- Focus on Upstream Interventions to Change -Downstream Outcomes
- Make Clear What the Costs and Benefits Are to Everyone-Not Just the Poor
- Listen to the Community and Echo Their Thoughts
- Empower individuals and Community
- Start Small, Then Scale Up
- Measure Outcomes
- Don't Underestimate the Importance of Politics
- Use Social Media, Advertising, and Media to Change the Narrative
- Leverage Partnerships
- Work Together Toward the Common Goal
Summary document
Four briefs on the following themes:
Watch Videos of the April 23, 2013 2nd Annual Symposium on the Social Determinants of Health (including Sir Michael Marmot).
1 Leverage Evidence-Based Practices2 Focus on Upstream Interventions to Change -DownstreamOutcomes3 Make Clear What the Costs and Benefits Are toEveryone-Not Just the Poor4 Listen to the Community and Echo Their ThoughtsFour briefs on the following themes:- Race, Racism and the Social Determinants of Health http://bit.ly/145dvjH- Urban HealthBuilding Human Capital: ACommunity's Greatest Resource http://bit.ly/14t6s3l- Urban Health Policies That Have Altered theLandscape http://bit.ly/11WnHXy- Place and Health: Building Healthy Communities toReduce Health Disparities http://bit.ly/10gsHda more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/13/193754/black-family-progress-has-stalled.html#storylink=cpy
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PUBLICATIONS
Public Health Reports - Special supplement on social determinants of health
This special supplement to Public Health Reports focuses on data systems and their use in addressing social determinants of health (SDH)-the underlying economic and social conditions that influence the health of individuals and communities as a whole.
Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this supplement brings attention to the increasing burden and inequities in some health outcomes, as well as the use of data to expand the knowledge base on SDH. In his special commentary, "The Ultimate Measures of Health," Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Howard K. Koh discusses the need for a broad "health in all policies" approach to public health for the 21st century. Similarly, in their guest editorial, Drs. Kathleen McDavid Harrison and Hazel D. Dean of CDC describe the need for a holistic approach to disease prevention that involves addressing not only individual, social, structural, and environmental determinants, but also working with a wide array of government and private sector organizations, including health, education, justice, environment, and labor. In turn, this holistic approach requires using diverse kinds of data such as surveillance, legal, land use, marketing, workforce, education, and financial.
Several articles within the supplement describe novel ways to use surveillance data from both national and state-level data collection systems, while others demonstrate innovative ways of linking labor, housing, and policy data with public health data to assess health outcomes. Additionally, experts provide specific viewpoints on gender equity as a social determinant, the use of public health law research to address SDH, and psychosocial factors affecting health.
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RESOURCES
The Social Determinants of Health: A Toolkit for Collaboration
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/13/193754/black-family-progress-has-stalled.html#storylink=
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OPPORTUNITIES
World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
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MID-SOUTH TRANSDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIVE CENTER FOR HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH
1717 11th Avenue South, Medical Towers 516 I Birmingham, AL 35294-4410, USA
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM I JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY I UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER I DILLARD UNIVERSITY
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