Resources

Educational Resources for Health Equity Concepts

• Unnatural Causes

  http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/

• Closing the Gap In a Generation

  http://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/healthycommunitiesprogram/tools/pdf/SDOH-workbook.pdf

• Reaching Across the Divide: Finding Solutions to Health Disparities

  http://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/12108/

• Accelerating Disparity Reducing Advances

  http://www.altfutures.com/draproject/index.php

Research–Academic and Governmental Studies on Health Disparities and Inequities

• National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

  http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/index.html<

• 2012 National Healthcare Disparities Report

  http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhdr12/2012nhdr.pdf

• CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report ? United States, 2011

  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/other/su6001.pdf

• Economic Burden of Health Inequalities in the United States

http://www.jointcenter.org/hpi/sites/all/files/Burden_Of_Health_FINAL_0.pdf

• Report of the National Expert Panel on Social Determinants of Health Equity

  http://unnaturalcauses.org/assets/uploads/file/SDOH%20Expert%20Panel%20Report%20final%2009%2025%202009.pdf

Organizations Working to Address and Eliminate Health Inequities

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

  http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/

• Prevention Institute

  http://www.preventioninstitute.org/tfah.html

• World Health Organization

  http://www.who.int/en/

• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

  www.nimhd.nih.gov

• Healthy People 2020

  http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/default.aspx

• Families USA

  http://familiesusa.org/issues/health-equity/

• National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities

  http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/npa/

Data

• Data Set Directory of Social Determinants of Health

  http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/docs/data_set_directory.pdf

• Behavioral Surveillance Risk Factor Survey. Data and Interactive Maps

  http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/

• Social Determinants of Health Maps

  http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/maps/social_determinants_maps.htm

• American?s Health Rankings

  http://www.americashealthrankings.org/

• Kaiser State Health Facts

  http://statehealthfacts.org/

• Quick Health Data Online

  http://www.healthstatus2010.com/owh/

• Louisiana Health Report Card

  http://new.dhh.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/newsroom/detail/2202

• Louisiana Health Center Fact Sheet

  http://www.nachc.com/client/documents/LA10.pdf