1. Eliminating Health Inequity: The Role of Local Public Health and Community Organizing
Identify Health Inequities
Examine Community History
of Health Inequity
Evidence-base for Conditions
that Produce Health Inequity
Identify Change Strategy
Attempt to Implement Change Strategy
to Tackle Health Inequity.
BARRIERS
Political Power Bureaucratic Inertia Legal Mandates Ignorance of Evidence
Community
Organizing
Policy
Analysis
Leadership
Youth Training
Research
Consciousness/Insight
Commitment/Motivation
Alliances/Coalitions
Publication/
Dissemination of Ideas
Develop Resources
Workforce
Capacity Building
Organized Campaigns
(Direct Action, Protest, Advocacy)
Involvement in Social Movement for Transformation
Policy Change
Institutional Change
Democratization of
Decision Making
Power Shift Generating Greater Social and Economic Equality
HEALTH EQUITY