The CDC’s “Safe and Accessible Streets for All Users” part of their Health Equity Guide explains why street infrastructure and transportation strategies are related to health equity; lists considerations communities should make when designing, implementing, and evaluating transportation interventions; and lists partnerships that should be… Read More »CDC Health Equity Guide: Safe and Accessible Streets for All Users
The Racial Justice Competencies for Public Health Professionals resource from the Public Health Training Center Network’s Racial Justice Working Group provides a list of competencies within the domains of Assessment, Policy Development ,and Assurance that health department staff, educators, trainers, and researchers can refer to… Read More »Racial Justice Competencies for Public Health Professionals
Canada’s National Collaborating Center for Determinants of Health has shared the “Let’s Talk Moving Upstream” resource as part of their “Let’s Talk Series.” This short article discusses how public health can work to create a greater fairness in the distribution of good health at the… Read More »“Let’s Talk Moving Upstream” Article and Resource
Dr. Nancy Krieger, social epidemiologist and equity advocate, shares her thoughts on the terminology of “proximal/downstream” and “distal/upstream” in the field of public health and which terms to use instead when discussing levels, pathways, and power related to the social determinants of health.
The Measuring Discrimination Resource by Dr. David R. Williams provides tools for measuring experiences of racism in a more tangible way. This comprehensive resource includes an Everyday Discrimination Scale, questionnaires for measuring experiences of discrimination and work discrimination, a Heightened Vigilance Scale, and more.
Necessary Conversations: Understanding Racism as a Barrier to Achieving Health Equity is a component of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation‘s “Culture of Health Series.” This book, written by Alonzo Plough, shows us how to move past fear, shame, and denial of acknowledging the United States’… Read More »Necessary Conversations: Understanding Racism as a Barrier to Achieving Health Equity
The American Hospital Association and the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity have teamed up to provide a list of resources that organizations can utilize to advance health equity in communities and healthcare settings. This extensive list describes and links resources that fall under the… Read More »Essential Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Resources
Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice is an initiative of the de Beaumont Foundation, the American Public Health Association, and the National Collaborative for Health Equity. The goal of the first stage of the project is to curate a set of policies and practices that… Read More »Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice
Developed by Bayard Love and Deena Hayes-Greene from the Racial Equity Institute, the Groundwater Approach is a metaphorical framework for analyzing racism in the United States. Examples in this document, embedded below, can help deepen understandings of the manifestations of institutional racism. We hope that… Read More »The Groundwater Approach: Building a Practical Understanding of Structural Racism
The Des Moines Area Religious Council (DMARC) has produced a report of the data, demographics, and disparities among their food pantry beneficiaries for the year 2022. This document may be of interest to those working in the Des Moines, Iowa area. Some of DMARC’s key… Read More »Portrait of a Food Pantry Visitor: Data, Demographics, and Disparities