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.
2: DEFINE AMBITIOUS EQUITY GOALS AND USE DATA
Creating an equitable approach to goal-setting
By: 211/CIE San Diego, Children’s Health Trust, and Health Leads
Description: A Data Equity Framework to guide institutions away from systems that perpetuate harmful practices and towards anti-racist systems that empower communities, based on the premises of Racism, Do No Harm, and Anti-Racism.
Creating a Targeted Universalism Framework
By: The Othering & Belonging Institute
Description: Targeted universalism means setting universal goals pursued by targeted processes to achieve those goals. Within a targeted universalism framework, universal goals are established for all groups concerned.
By: Center for Community Health and Development, University of Kansas
Description: Database of resources to build thriving community coalitions, including ways to collect data in a way that oversamples populations and communities experiencing health inequities.
By: Georgia Health Policy Center
Description: Tools to understand health and equity impacts of policies and programs across sectors to address vital community conditions, applied as part of a Health in All Policies Approach
Racial Equity Toolkit: An Opportunity to Operationalize Equity
By: Government Alliance on Race and Equity
Description: Racial Equity Tools designed to provide guidance on what measures are important to include, stratifying by geographic area, what data says about root causes, and how to analyze gaps - designed for governmental agencies.
Sources of data
By: PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE)
Description: The National Equity Atlas, provides deeply disaggregated, longitudinal data on demographic change, racial and economic inclusion, and the economic benefits of equity for the 100 largest cities, 150 largest regions, all 50 states, and the United States.
Well Being In the Nation Measures
By: Well Being In the Nation Network
Description: Data grounded in a measurement framework and library developed together with community residents that offers both secondary data and community-driven primary data for assessing the health and well-being of people, places, and equity across the vital conditions. Offers measures by sector that can be aligned with strategies to address health equity.
D5 Resources for Data Collection
By: D5
Description: D5’s tools and resources for collecting demographic data and mapping and visualizing the data