Description
A must-read resource to help you advance health equity across communities, organizations, cities and world regions.
In Health Equity: Strategies for Action, an array of pioneering health equity-focused researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy specialists from multiple sectors and disciplines deliver an incisive guide to health equity: why it matters, how to achieve it, and the state of the health equity movement across national and global settings.
Grounded in a multisectoral and community-driven approach to health equity solutions, this book walks you through key principles and practical approaches to advancing health equity and overcoming commonly encountered barriers to people's health and well-being, including key social, structural and political determinants of health. The book features effective action areas and strategiies to address health inequities across issues of racism, gender, immigration, poverty, age, and other socially-determined factors, and highlights relevant case studies and lessons learned.
Health Equity: Strategies for Action is an essential resource for graduate and undergraduate courses on the topic. Professionals in fields as broad as public health, architecture and urban planning, social work, medicine, technology, early childhood, healthcare, community development, human rights, philanthropy, vital statistics, and disability advocacy who seek to integrate a health equity lens in their work, will also find this to be a vital guidebook in furthering their health equity goals. Policymakers and elected officials can also use this book enhance their knowledge on health equity, an approach to improve health for all, whose importance will only continue to grow.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
The Editor
The Contributors
Introduction
- What is health equity and why it matters
- The state of the health equity movement
- Advancing Health Equity: Looking at Frameworks for Organizational and Collaborative Journeys
- Community Engagement: The People’s Approach to Advancing Health Equity
- Health Equity Impact Assessment: Current Models and Future Directions
- Shaping Innovative Policy Strategies for Health Equity
- Communicating for health equity impact
- Using Digital Technology to Advance Health Equity through Civic Engagement and Partnerships
- Ensuring a Fair Start for All Children: The Promise of Early Learning Programs
10. Poverty, unemployment, and health equity
11. The Health Problem with No Name: Addressing Racism, Xenophobia and Other Forms of Social Discrimination
12. Built environment, climate change, and health equity
13. Vital foundations in equity, gender, and LGBTQI+ identity
14. Looking at system change as related to aging and disability
15. Addressing Root Causes of Inequities: The Role of Different Organizations
16. Health equity in clinical settings: a prescription for patient-centered and bias-free care
17. Youth Engagement and Health Equity
18. The future of the health equity movement
Appendix
Index
