Educational Resources for Health Equity Concepts

• Unnatural Causes
www.unnaturalcauses.org/

• Closing the Gap In a Generation
www.who.int/social_determinants/final_report/en/index.html

• Promoting Health Equity: A Resource to Help Communities Address Social Determinants of Health
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dach/chhep/pdf/SDOHworkbook.pdf

• The Power to Reduce Health Disparities: Voices from REACH Communities
• Reaching Across the Divide: Finding Solutions to Health Disparities
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dach/chhep/library/resources.htm

• National Stakeholder Strategy for Achieving Health Equity
http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/npa/templates/content.aspx?lvl=1&lvlid=33&ID=286

Research–Academic and Governmental Studies on Health Disparities and Inequities

• CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report – United States, 2011
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/other/su6001.pdf

• Economic Burden of Health Inequalities in the United States
www.healthyohioprogram.org/ASSETS/6FAB919DD77D4AFAAE4E531EC264A40B/burden_hlth.pdf

• Report of the National Expert Panel on Social Determinants of Health Equity
www.healthyohioprogram.org/ASSETS/AF886060E94E4823A9338F7E68139947/hepanel.pdf

Organizations Working to Address and Eliminate Health Inequities

• U.S. DHHS Action Plan to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/npa/files/Plans/HHS/HHS_Plan_complete.pdf

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
www.cdc.gov/omhd/Topic/HealthDisparities.html

• Prevention Institute
www.preventioninstitute.org/tfah.html

• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
www.nimhd.nih.gov

• Healthy People 2020
www.healthypeople.gov/2020/default.aspx

Data

• Louisiana County Health Rankings
www.countyhealthrankings.org/louisiana/overall-rankings

• Data Set Directory of Social Determinants of Health
www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/docs/data_set_directory.pdf

• Behavioral Surveillance Risk Factor Survey. Data and Interactive Maps
www.cdc.gov/brfss/

• Social Determinants of Health Maps
www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/maps/social_determinants_maps.htm

• American’s Health Rankings
www.americashealthrankings.org/

• Kaiser State Health Facts
www.statehealthfacts.org/

• Quick Health Data Online
www.healthstatus2010.com/owh/

• Louisiana 2009 Health Report Card
www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/publications/pubs-275/DHHHlthCreRprtCrd_2009.pdf

• Louisiana Health Center Fact Sheet
www.nachc.com/client/documents/LA10.pdf