Achieving Environmental Health Equity : The Need and Opportunities for Public Health Action

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• Corporate Authors:
  Environmental Health & Equity Collaborative. ; American Public Health Association. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DISPARITIES are the result of current and historic systemic exclusion, disenfranchisement and disinvestment of specific communities and individuals in the U.S. If environmental and public health organizations and leaders want to provide effective environmental health services, they must take action towards health equity, using a comprehensive social justice paradigm, both internally and externally. This two-part issue brief provides a description and examples of health disparities and their systemic and structural causes and a series of opportunities for action for public health organizations.
  
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• Content Notes:
  ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DISPARITIES are the result of current and historic systemic exclusion, disenfranchisement and disinvestment of specific communities and individuals in the U.S. If environmental and public health organizations and leaders want to provide effective environmental health services, they must take action towards health equity, using a comprehensive social justice paradigm, both internally and externally. This two-part issue brief provides a description and examples of health disparities and their systemic and structural causes and a series of opportunities for action for public health organizations.
  
  This project is supported by cooperative agreement U38OT000294 between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Public Health Association. The contents of this document are solely the responsibility of the Environmental Health & Equity Collaborative and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC or APHA.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Environmental Health Health Equity
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Funding:
  cooperative agreement U38OT000294
• Pages in Document:
  7 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:225cecf9849d06d5ec7751c0102fe8c9e5ef4668a038dbaa6ae1d50b8aa7e6f6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/138760/cdc_138760_DS1.pdf
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