[EQ] Communities Taking Action: Profiles of Health Equity

Communities Taking Action: Profiles of Health Equity

June 2010

Available online at: http://bit.ly/bRDJwM

Communities Taking Action is a collection of profiles developed by Prevention Institute that showcase successful community initiatives aimed at improving health equity. These profiles are meant to demonstrate key steps to creating healthy, equitable environments and inspire similar action in other communities and locales.

The profiled communities promote racial and social justice through initiatives to prevent chronic disease, violence, and injury.
The database includes 64 profiles in total, all plotted on an easy-to-browse google map.
 

Together, the profiles demonstrate how strong leadership, community engagement and advocacy, and changes in local policies and institutional practices can lead to healthier, more equitable community environments.

The Communities Taking Action Profiles
http://www.preventioninstitute.org/tools/focus-area-tools/communities-in-action-profiles-of-health-equity.html
provide strategies for community efforts to build health and equity.

The profiles also provide media and policymakers with on-the-ground examples that illustrate effective cross-sector community prevention efforts.

List: http://preventioninstitute.org/component/taxonomy/term/list/106/127.html

Prevention Institute has developed a broad range of practical, easy-to-use tools that guide practitioners, advocates, and policymakers in planning health strategy and in contributing to safer, healthier, and more equitable communities.

The tools are grouped within three categories—strategy tools, partnership tools, and tools for focus areas, such as promoting health and health equity and preventing violence and chronic disease.

They include conceptual frameworks, databases, step-by-step guides, and action plans that translate research into practice.

 

 

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