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Personal Author:
Jibrel, Eman
Corporate Authors:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Minority Health and Health Equity.
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The year is coming to an end and many of us are looking ahead to what 2022 holds. Here, in the United States, many of us are vaccinated and safely reuniting with our loved ones. Holiday traditions are commencing in person once again and the new year is quickly approaching. Before writing those new year’s resolutions, I encourage you to reflect on the progress you have made this year and celebrate all of your accomplishments. Personal celebrations are paramount, but together we’ve made monumental milestones in advancing health equity.

Despite growing interest in health equity, some remain unclear of the importance of this work. Above all health equity is when all individuals have equitable access to quality health outcomes. Unfortunately, many racial and ethnic minority groups have long experienced disproportionate rates of infectious and chronic diseases and their risk factors. While health care is essential, health equity reaches beyond the proximity of care facilities or one’s access to adequate coverage. Achieving health equity is ultimately rooted in addressing drivers such as the social determinants of health and reducing health disparities.

Health equity is personal to so many of us public health professionals who have worked tirelessly at leading evidence-based research to examine the root causes of health disparities and work toward solutions that ensure everyone has the opportunity to live healthy lives. In the fall 2021 issue of Health Equity Matters e-newsletter, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH expressed her immense enthusiasm in seeing health equity gain the spotlight it deserves. “It is important to me to bring my clinical and scientific commitment, passion, and advocacy for health equity to my role as director of the agency charged with protecting the health of all Americans,” says Dr. Walensky.

As an agency, CDC is transforming its public health research, surveillance, and implementation efforts to shift from simply reporting on the markers of health inequities to addressing the drivers of disparities. CDC’s CORE Health Equity Science and Intervention Strategy ensures the building of key partnerships to gain collective expertise and perspectives, inform next steps, and create a shared commitment to achieving health equity. The CORE strategy is one of this year’s milestones because of its transformative impact in embedding health equity into the core of CDC’s work.


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Delivery Of Health Care/ethnology Ethnicity Health Equity Health Status Disparities Minority Health Outcome Assessment, Health Care Racial Groups Racism Social Determinants Of Health Socioeconomic Factors
Series:
Conversations in Equity
Document Type:
Webpage
Name as Subject:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Minority Health and Health Equity. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Minority Health and Health Equity. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Minority Health and Health Equity. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Minority Health and Health Equity. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) Less -
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Blogs
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Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
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