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HEALTH EQUITY POLICY TOOLKIT : A Movemet for Justice
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06/01/2023
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Description:ASTHO defines Health Equity as, “when everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible in a society that values each member equally through focused and ongoing efforts to address avoidable inequities, historical and contemporary injustices, and the elimination of disparities in health and healthcare.”
The achievement of health equity reduces harm to people who have been marginalized and increases life expectancy and quality of life for everyone. Current health inequities can be traced to policy choices that negatively impact (or “disenfranchise”) communities, such as racist redlining policies and the traumatic historical practice of sending Native and Indigenous youth to boarding schools. Similarly, healthcare payment policies and a strained workforce result in geographic health disparities, with more than 170 rural counties lacking health system infrastructure such as a rural health clinic, Federally Qualified Health Center, or critical care hospital. Recognizing that past policy choices across all levels of government resulted in an inequitable system and structural discrimination allows strategic amplification across multi-sector partners to address these historical wrongs and the resulting inequities. Public health leaders have an opportunity to support policies that center the needs of historically marginalized, disenfranchised, and underinvested communities to achieve health equity.
This toolkit is designed to support public health leaders in leveraging the policy development process to achieve health equity in their jurisdiction. The toolkit includes an overview of core health equity concepts, such as defining the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and intersectionality, as well as descriptions and examples of common policy levers within public health leaders’ authority or influence. Key considerations for using the policy levers to advance health equity are also provided. Lastly, the toolkit includes resources for supporting health departments in the policy development process.
This publication was made possible by Grant Number OT18-1802.NU38 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC OMHHE.
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