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Below are multiple resources to support State and Territorial Health Department staff interested in broadening their scope and consideration of how health for historically oppressed peoples of color can be improved through chronic disease programming.
Health Equity Council–Sponsored Program Materials
- Health Equity Primer (2022)
- NACDD Health Equity Training Journal for Members
- National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program and NACDD Health Equity Training Journal (2021)
- The Color of Law: The Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Webinar and Q&A with Richard Rothstein, Robyn Taylor, and Susan Kansagra (2021)
- Downstream, Upstream, Mainstream: Getting to Equity webinar with Dr. Renée Canady (2020)
- Declaring Racism a Public Health Emergency: What does that mean? General Member Webinar (2020)
- Partnerships are Essential – Focus on Disparities (2019)
- Advancing Health Equity (2018)
- Pilot of the Institutional Equity Tool (2018)
- NACDD Health Equity Council at Work (video) Read the document (2017)
- “An Assessment of Funding and Other Capacity Needs for Health Equity Programming Within State-Level Chronic Disease Programs” (Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 2011)
NACDD Portfolio Work Supporting Health Equity and Racial Health
- GEAR Group Using Data to Promote Equity in Policy and Programming (2020)
- GEAR Group Foundations of Addressing Systemic Racism as a Public Health Crisis (2020)
- GEAR Groups Compilation of Resources on Health Equity to Accelerate Population Health (2019)
- Learn how NACDD is promoting health equity in our two most recent Annual Reports
Cancer
- National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program 30th Anniversary Event website, including plenary recordings and learning materials “Working Toward Health Equity” (2021)
- Environmental Scan of Skin Cancer Prevention Messages (2018)
- Skin Cancer Messages Among Black and Hispanic Groups Ages 18-44 Who are at Risk (2018)
Cardiovascular Health
- Under Pressure: Black Men and the Battle of Hypertension (2019) Please register to view the recording.
- Addressing Health Disparities in Hypertension Control (2017)
Addressing Upstream Factors
- How We in State Health Departments can Support Active People, Healthy Nation (2020)
- Insights Magazine: Socially Determined – A Call to Action (2019)
- Complete Streets Webinar (2019)
- “Health: To Be Determined: Moving Public Health to 3.0” Podcast Series (2019)
- Deliberate Practice: Programs-Level Approaches to Address Upstream Factors (2019)
- Upstream Factors: From What and Why to How (2019)
- Community IS Medicine – an “Rx” for Eating, Exercise, Sleep and Community (2019)
- Chronic Disease and Social Determinants in Public Health (Health Yeah! Series, 2018)
- Building the Public Narrative to Address Root Causes for Health Disparities & State Examples (2018)
- Reaching People with Disabilities through Health Communities (2018)