Health Equity Strategies
CCDHP – Coordinated Chronic Disease
Learning Community
Kati Moseley, MPH
Chair, Health Equity Council
September 10, 2012
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ASTHO Affiliate Meeting 2011
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What do you need –
how can we help?
What do you need to succeed
in your health equity efforts?
How can the Health Equity Council
help you?
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Elements of Success: Background
In 2011, the Health Equity Council
 Identified strategies of robust programs
 Rated strategies based on depth of action
 Surveyed state & territory chronic disease
directors
 Conducted phone interviews
 Arranged presentations by five states
 Gathered tools and processes from states
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Catalog of Strategies
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Written plan with designated staff + leadership support
Staff orientation and training
Recruitment, hiring and retention practices
External contracts
Data
Partnerships
Other tools
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What would you add?
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Written plan with designated
staff and leadership support
Designated
lead to oversee the work – at least .5FTE
Written
plan with logic model, process to apply an equity
lens to decisions, and evaluation
Organizational
self-assessment for addressing health
inequities
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Staff Orientation
and Training
New
employee orientation within 6 months of hire
Roots of Health Inequity |NACCHO
Ongoing staff training
Roots of Health Inequity |NACCHO
Unnatural Causes | California Newsreel
Regular health equity discussions during staff meetings
Health Equity Prevention Primer | Prevention
Institute
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Recruitment and Retention
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Qualifications for positions
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Recruitment outlets
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Interview questions
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Job descriptions
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Training and support
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External Contracts
Equity
language in contracts, grants and RFPs
 Health Equity language in contracts, grants and RFPs
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Program awards funds to outside groups to promote
health equity (explicitly stated)
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Data
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Program collects local level data on social
determinants of health and has systems to
insure consistent data collection
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Health equity component to disease burden
reports
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Health equity resources available to the public
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Partnerships
National – ASTHO, PHAB, NACCHO, Prevention
Institute, PolicyLink, YMCA, NPA
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State Partnerships
State – cabinet level departments like
transportation, education, commerce, planning,
local health departments, business
organizations
What other partners
do you work with?
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Other tools
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
(CLAS) standards self-assessment tools
Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) standards
and measures revisions
Bay Area Regional Health Inequity Initiative –
Organizational Self-Assessment for Addressing
Health Inequities
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Take Action
What is something you learned today you plan
to act on?
What is something you heard you want more
information about?
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Contact Us
For more information contact Gail Brandt:
gbrandt@chronicdisease.org
Or visit: www.chronicdisease.org
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