CDC’s Guiding Principles to Promote an Equity-Centered Approach to Public Health Communication

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Calanan, Renee M. ; Bonds, Michelle E. ; Bedrosian, Sara R. ; Laird, Susan K. ; Satter, Delight ; Penman-Aguilar, Ana
• Description:
  A public health practitioner's mission is to protect and promote the health of all people in all communities. Components of being successful in that mission include understanding who is at risk of negative outcomes, identifying effective actions to promote and protect health, and communicating information accordingly. Information must be scientifically rigorous, provide appropriate contextualizing information, and refer to and visually represent people through words and images in respectful ways. Public health communication objectives include that the audience accepts, understands, and acts on the information to protect and promote health. This article describes the impetus for, development of, and public health applications and implications of principles to guide communication efforts. CDC's Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication is a web-based resource published in August 2021 that offers - but does not mandate - guidance and recommendations for public health practice. The resource can help public health practitioners and their partners consider social inequities and diversity, think more inclusively about the people they serve, and adapt to the cultural, linguistic, environmental, and historical situation of each population or audience of focus. Users are encouraged to have conversations about the Guiding Principles as they plan and develop communication products and strategies in collaboration with communities and partners and build a shared vocabulary consistent with how communities and groups of focus see and understand themselves, because words matter. As the public health field renews its focus on shifting the paradigm toward equity, a language and narrative shift is a vital intervention.
• Subjects:
  Health Communication Health Promotion Humans Public Health Public Health Practice
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 2023; 20
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd20.230061
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  37410939
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10364834
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Data Modernization Initiative. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Data Modernization Initiative.
• Genre:
  Tools for Public Health Practice
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  20
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:61b551b5e7045c4f575a4a14b6951699d0599deca1d2350d558a51038057964d696c1bec8f9f2907b45f09b6f60400274c11b3c3cdcfbab7984838e461a46735
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/151086/cdc_151086_DS1.pdf
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