A plenary presentation by Jim Bloyd, MPH, Regional Health officer at the Cook County (Illinois, USA) Department of Public Health, was made Tuesday April 12, 2016, at the National Leadership Academy, "Strengthening the Capacity of Public Health Departments to Advance Health Equity," at the CDC Tom Harkin Global Communications Center, Atlanta, Georgia. The presentation describes the Chicago-area context in which policy is considered, the importance of adopting a causal framework for policy action to eliminate health inequities, actions taken by the Cook County Department of Public Health through its planning and assessment process, and the role of the Collaborative for Health Equity Cook County. The plenary topic, "Best Practices for Developing Policies to Address Social Determinants of Health," was addressed by a panel moderated by Leandris Liburd, Director, Office of Minority Health and Health Equity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC hosted the National Leadership Academy on Health Equity, a two-day meeting April 11-12, 2016. The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), the National Association of State Offices of Minority Health (NASOMH), and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) invited participants. At the conclusion of the National Leadership Academy on Health Equity a final report will be developed highlighting action steps, opportunities, challenges and lessons learned fro participants at the leadership academy. Participants' input during breakout sessions will play a critical role in defining the substance of the report. A twitter hashtag #CDCHealthEquity was created by participants during the meeting.
13. We have repeatedly referred to Hilary
Graham’s warning about the tendency to
conflate the social determinants of health
and the social processes that shape these
determinants’ unequal distribution, by
lumping the two phenomena together under
a single label. Maintaining the distinction is
more than a matter of precision in language.
As Graham argues, blurring these concepts
may lead to seriously misguided policy
choices.
[emphasis added]
Source: Solar & Irwin (2010) p.47
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17. CCDPH @CookCoHealth
Tell us if housing, health svcs,
jobs, schools, transportation
& recreation support healthy
living in your community.
http://ow.ly/RNBrE
June-October, 2015: Forces of Change Assessment
June-October: Community Themes & Strengths Assessment
September 1: Local Public Health System Assessment Mee=ng
June-October: Community Health Status Assessment
October 2015-January 2016: Community Partner & Strategy
Mee=ngs
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4 MAPP assessments planned by CCDPH
staff commi]ees
23. Iden=fy & confront systems of
privilege, dominance
You don't even have to be aware of it to receive
the benefit. And the thing that's really slick
about whiteness, if you will, is that most of the
benefits can be obtained without ever doing
anything personally.
john powell
Source: Interview with john a. powell edited transcript (2003) California Newsreel
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25. Power, after all, is the heart of the matter—and
the science of health inequities can no more
shy away from this question than can physicists
ignore gravity or physicians ignore pain.
Jason Beckfield & Nancy Krieger
Source: Epidemiologic Reviews, 31, 152-77 (2009) p. 169
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