Resources

Co-sponsored by Human Impact Partners, the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, the National Collaborative for Health Equity, and NACCHO’s Health Equity and Social Justice Committee.

We’re excited to co-sponsor a 4-part webinar series to discuss the strategic practices outlined in HIP’s Health Equity Guide with national experts and local health departments advancing health equity. We’re hosting this series in collaboration with the Government Alliance on Race and Equity, the National Collaborative for Health Equity, and the National Association of County and City Health Officers’ Health Equity and Social Justice Committee.

Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative

This step-by-step technical guide assists local health departments and community partners in the collection, analysis, and usage of SDOH indicators for local community health assessments, program/policy development, and health equity advocacy.

California Department of Public Health

CCHEP embeds health and equity in California climate change planning, and embeds climate change and equity in public health planning. CCHEP works with local, state, and national partners to assure that climate change mitigation and adaptation activities have beneficial effects on health while not exacerbating health inequities.

Colorado Office of Health Equity

Developed in partnership with community organizations and other state agencies, this action guide looks at the root causes of inequity through an in-depth review of community characteristics, stories and data. It leverages cross-sector collaboration and promotes data-sharing for sustainable community informed decision-making to advance equity.

National Collaborative for Health Equity

Reports providing a comprehensive analysis of the range of social, economic, and environmental conditions in different areas around the country, and documenting their relationship to the health status of that area’s residents.

Federal Interagency Health Equity Team

This document is a compendium of existing federal data sets.

Minnesota Department of Health

This guide describes how to conduct a health equity data analysis — a qualitative and quantitative community health assessment that examines individual, social, and economic factors and the policies and systems that influence health.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin

These rankings are based on a model of population health that emphasizes factors that make communities healthier places to live, learn, work, and play. Data and rankings are available at the county, state, and national level.

University of Washington

This website provides an evidence-based curriculum for using CBPR as a tool for developing community-institutional partnerships to improve health.

The Heller School

This website creates customized reports describing over 100 measures of diversity, opportunity, and quality of life for 362 metropolitan areas.

Blue Shield of California Foundation

This report builds upon a previous Kaiser Family Foundation survey, which showed that the current policy environment has increased fear among immigrant families. This report delves deeper to document the significant and unhealthy impact of increased enforcement on immigrant communities.

Karishma S. Furtado, Carol Brownson, Zarina Fershteyn, Marti Macchi, Amy Eyler, Cheryl Valko, and Ross C. Brownson

This Health Affairs article shares findings from a survey of 537 chronic disease practitioners working in state health departments on health equity commitments, partnerships, and needed skills.

Public Health Alliance of Southern California

The HDI developed a composite index of SDOH that form the root causes of disadvantage using publicly available sources. The HDI is intended to help prioritize public and private investments, resources, and programs.

National Association of Chronic Disease Directors

This survey instrument helps determine what skills public health staff need to advance health equity.

Human Impact Partners

This report shares findings from the Health Equity Guide evaluation conducted in summer/fall 2018.  The report describes how health department respondents are working to advance health equity, how the website is being used by many health departments across the United States, how HIP’s Theory of Change resonates with health department staff, and opportunities for improvement.

Connecticut Association of Directors of Health

The HEI is a community-based electronic tool that profiles and measures SDOH and their correlations with specific health outcomes. The Index also generates community-specific scores and GIS maps.

ChangeLab Solutions

This comprehensive toolkit is intended for anyone interested in building healthier communities through more collaborative and efficient policymaking, and includes best practices and lessons learned from community leaders who are doing exactly that.

NAACP Climate Justice Program

This Guide includes a disaster policy and governance framework, how to start a community emergency response team, hosting a community visioning session, establishing a community advisory board, civil and human rights in emergency management monitoring tool, partnership matrix of agencies/organizations, disaster management resource list, and more!

Annie E. Casey Foundation

This project provides data on child and family well-being in the United States, including hundreds of indicators available at the zip code, city, county, and state level, and provides options for downloading the data and creating reports and graphics.

Blue Shield of California Foundation

This report draws on focus groups with immigrant families and interviews with pediatricians and finds that immigrants from a variety of backgrounds report rising fear and anxiety that is affecting their daily lives and well-being as well as the health of their children, who are predominantly U.S.-born citizens.

National Cancer Institute

This workbook aids in the process of selecting and communicating quantitative data that the public, policy makers, and press will understand.

USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and PolicyLink

This Atlas provides data on demographic change, racial inclusion, and the economic benefits of equity for the 100 largest cities, 150 largest regions, all 50 states, and the United States.

City of Oakland

This report provides a baseline quantitative framework to better understand the impacts of race, measure inequities, and track changes in the disparities for different groups over time. This framework can then be used to guide and inform policies that address these disparities.

DataCenter

DataCenter’s research tools are designed to help organizers and activists think strategically about the role of information in developing actions and campaigns – and to provide a practical guide for doing effective campaign research.

University of Southern California

This resource kit includes an article and two videos intended for use by transgender activists, epidemiologists, clinicians, policymakers and all other stakeholders who want to drive the conversation forward through training, research and advocacy.

Coalition of Communities of Color

This article outlines data and research practices that misrepresent and negate the experiences and identities of communities of color including population undercounts, understudy of the unique characteristics of communities of color, inaccuracies in how data are codified and analyzed, and data collection efforts that are infused with white centrism and a colorblindness that renders issues minimized and the experiences of communities of color obscured.

US Climate and Health Alliance

The US Climate and Health Alliance is a national network of health and public health practitioners dedicated to addressing the threats of climate change to health.

Minnesota Department of Health

This guide provides local health departments with information on how to think about and analyze data related to health equity, and serves as a starting point for understanding how to document health inequities.