RESOURCES
This is a highly curated list of resources to support public health change agents advancing population health and equity. Many more tools to take action can be found in the population health and equity resource databases below.
4: ADDRESS ROOT CAUSES OF INEQUITY
Understanding structural racism as a barrier to health equity
Levels of Racism: A Theoretical Framework and a Gardener’s Tale
By: Dr. Camara Jones, American Journal of Public Health
Description: A framework and allegory for different levels of racism
By: David Williams, TED
Description: How everyday racism and structural inequities add up to poor health and life outcomes
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We can Prosper Together
By: The Laura Flanders Show
Description: Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How we can Prosper Together.
Advancing Racial Equity Webinar Series and Discussion Guide
By: American Public Health Association
Description: A series of webinars and discussion guides to facilitate conversations about racism and racial health equity for public health and community practitioners
Understanding our history and applying it to create structural change in our communities
By: Dismantling Racism Works (dRworks)
Description: Dismantling Racism provides a sample of laws, court decisions, and other acts that laid the groundwork for structural barriers to equity in the US, from the founding of the country to current day.
Health Equity: A Guidebook for Public Health Practice
By: Metro Denver Partnership for Health
Description: This Health Equity Guidebook reflects on the history of discrimination in the US in order to identify shared values and foster common understanding on structural barriers to health equity.
An Equity Action Guide: Creating Thriving Communities in Colorado
By: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Office of Health Equity
Description: This Equity Action Guide acknowledges structural racism and describes a history of inequitable policies that affect Coloradans from the 1800s
Countering the Production of Health Inequities
By: Prevention Institute
Description: A systematic look at how exclusionary policies and systems produce health inequities in different neighborhoods by sector from the Prevention Institute
Resources to take action on racial and economic inequities in a structural way
By: Trust for America’s Health
Description: Issue brief about policy opportunities to address racism
Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice
By: American Public Health Association, deBeaumont, National Collaborative for Health Equity
Description: Curated policies and practices that can be implemented at the local level to promote racial healing and advance racial equity
By: Healthy Places Index, Public Health Institute
Description: Policies to build equitable and healthy places
Improving Health Equity through Rural Economic Development
By: County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
Description: Webinar describing the link between rural educational and economic development and health outcomes in Klamath County, Oregon
Healthy Neighborhood Investments: A Policy Scan and Strategy Map
By: Build Healthy Places Network, Public Health Institute
Description: Policy and investment strategies to build thriving, equitable communities
By: PolicyLink
Description: 27 tools to reverse patterns of segregation and disinvestment, prevent displacement, and promote equitable revitalization.
Equitable Economies Policy Database
By: Well Being In the Nation (WIN) Network
Description: 135+ policies to advance an equitable economy