Practical Approaches for Promoting Health Equity in Communities

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The Maternal and Child Health workforce, public health practitioners, researchers, and other groups need clear, practical guidance on how to promote health equity in the communities they serve. The National Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center’s Health Equity Team synthesized eight approaches for promoting health equity that drew on their experience working with public health practitioners and communities. The approaches are to: Expand the understanding of the drivers of health and work across sectors; Take a systems approach; Reflect on your own organization; Follow the lead of communities who experience injustices; Work with community members, decision-makers, and other stakeholders to prioritize action; Foster agency within individuals and collective action within groups; Identify and collect data to show where health inequities currently exist to inform equitable investment of resources; and Be accountable to outcomes that reflect real improvements in people’s lives. The fields of maternal and child health and public health more broadly is already engaged in the complex work of promoting equity and social justice, and in doing so, should refine, challenge, add to, and build upon these approaches.

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Calancie, L., Batdorf-Barnes, A., Verbiest, S., White, N., Lich, K. H., Corbie, G., … Cilenti, D. (2022, August 1). Practical Approaches for Promoting Health Equity in Communities. Maternal and Child Health Journal. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-022-03456-9

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