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Image Thumbnail 1998 Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (aka Acheson Report) E-mail to a friend
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In the United Kingdom, the 1998 Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health Report (otherwise known as the Acheson Report) concluded with 39 policy recommendations to improve health. sisli escort taksim escort istanbul escort maltepe escort sisli escort

Image Thumbnail Asian Pacific Environmental Network E-mail to a friend
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"APEN seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice. APEN believes that the environment includes everything around us: where we live, work and play. And we strive to build grassroots organizations that will improve the health, well-being and political strength of our communities."

Image Thumbnail Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII) E-mail to a friend
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BARHII is a unique undertaking by local health departments in the San Francisco Bay Area to confront health inequities, and recently released a report, Health Inequities in the Bay Area (pdf). The regional collaboration includes public health directors, health officers, senior managers and staff from Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Solano counties, and the City of Berkeley. In addition to its work to help health departments learn from and teach each other, BARHII is developing regional strategies that supplement and support local work.

Image Thumbnail Center for Education Reform E-mail to a friend
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CER advocates reforms that produce high standards, accountability and freedom, such as strong charter school laws, school choice programs for children most in need, common sense teacher initiatives, and proven instructional programs. Its Washington, DC-based team and state and local partners advance the mission by: making parents better advocates for their children; giving lawmakers knowledge they need to make smart decisions; providing school-based reformers the tools to promote positive change; and building and strengthening education reform leaders in the states.

Image Thumbnail CivilRights.org E-mail to a friend
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CivilRights.org is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. Its mission: to serve as the site of record for relevant and up-to-the minute civil rights news and information.

Image Thumbnail Community Food Security Coalition E-mail to a friend
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The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a North American organization of 325 groups working in social and economic justice, environmental issues, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, community development, labor, anti-poverty, anti-hunger, and other areas. With the ultimate objective to build strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food to all people at all times, they provide a variety of training and technical assistance programs for community food projects; support the development of farm to school and farm to college initiatives; advocate for federal policies to support community food security initiatives; and provide networking and educational resources.

The website also includes links to other food security organizations.

Image Thumbnail Environmental Justice Resource Center E-mail to a friend
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The Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC) at Clark Atlanta University was formed in 1994 to serve as a research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights and human rights, facility siting, land use planning, brownfields, transportation equity, suburban sprawl and smart growth, energy, global climate change, and climate justice. The overall goal of the center is to assist, support, train, and educate people of color, students, professionals, and grassroots community leaders with the goal of facilitating their inclusion into mainstream decision-making.
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Image Thumbnail Inclusion E-mail to a friend
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Inclusion is a think tank dedicated to advancing a progressive, long-term vision for a fairer, more inclusive and sustainable world. Their current work focuses on identifying and promoting new ideas for better jobs, while stimulating and shaping the dialogue about improving low-wage work to benefit our economy, workers, and communities. Inclusionist.org includes many links to reports, op eds, and addtional resources about the economy, social mobility, inequality, etc.

Image Thumbnail Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies E-mail to a friend
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The Joint Center is the nation's only research and public policy institutions that focuses exclusively on issues of particular concern to African Americans and other people of color. Current research and analyses address critical issues in three key areas: political participation; economic advancement; and health policy.

Image Thumbnail Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy E-mail to a friend
BOOK edited by Schoeni, House, Kaplan, and Pollack, 2008

In this collection, a group of multidisciplinary experts shows how social and economic policies seemingly unrelated to medical well-being have dramatic consequences for the health of the American people. The work presents ground-breaking evidence to convincingly demonstrate that ultimately social and economic policy is health policy.

Image Thumbnail More Than a Message: Framing Public Health Advocacy to Change Corporate Practices (pdf) E-mail to a friend
ARTICLE by Lori Dorfman, Lawrence Wallack, Katie Woodruff, Ch6 in Prevention Is Primary

Public health advocates will be more effective when they learn how to frame their issues in the context of core values. Industry and corporate representatives tend to work within the frame of market values and personal responsibility; advocates may frame their communications based on fairness and social responsibility. The format and brevity of most news stories contributes to an individual-based, non-contextualized understanding of issues, thus advocates should work to present their issues in a clear, concise, "what's wrong? why does it matter? what should be done?" frame.

Image Thumbnail Partnership for Working Families E-mail to a friend
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The Partnership is an economic justice organization that works to ensure that public resources are invested in ways that are economically sound and provide a return to the community. They are working to reform development policy throughout the country so that the social and economic return on investment is tracked and reported to the public. The Partnership also seeks to secure a systematic and timely process for accomodating community input into development decisions.fausse richard mille

Image Thumbnail PolicyLink E-mail to a friend
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PolicyLink is a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity by "Lifting Up What Works." By developing and implementing multifaceted strategies, PolicyLink seeks to ensure that everyone—including low-income communities of color—can contribute to and benefit from local and regional growth and development. 

Image Thumbnail Population Health Forum E-mail to a friend
University of Washington, School of Public Health & Community Medicine

The Population Health Forum is a group of academics, citizens, students, and activists across several nations who work to build support for changing the rules of society so that better orologi replica health comes naturally. Their website includes a library of great articles and resources to learn more and use in public education, and lists steps you can take towards closing the enormous wealth gap in the United States.

Image Thumbnail Primer to Action: Social Determinants of Health E-mail to a friend
REPORT by the Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse, 2007

This resource is for health professionals, lay workers, volunteers and activists. It’s for you and your organization, but also for your family, and your community. We will focus on six key determinants of health: income, education, employment, housing, food, and inclusion. The Primer to Action will show you:
1) where you can find more information about each of six determinants;
2) how you can work on the determinants in your agency;
3) who you can learn from, with examples and models; and
4) what you can do in your community.

Image Thumbnail Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research E-mail to a friend
BOOK edited by Brian Smedley and S. Leonard Syme, 2000

This book identifies promising areas of social science and behavioral research that may address public health needs. The editor's description reads: "Approximately half of all causes of mortality in the United States are linked to social and behavioral factors such as smoking, diet, alcohol use, sedentary life-style, and accidents. Yet less than 5% of the approximately $1 trillion spent annually on health care in the United States is devoted to reducing risks posed by these preventable conditions. Behavioral and social interventions therefore offer great promise to reduce disease morbidity and mortality, but as yet their potential to improve the public's health has been relatively poorly tapped."

See especially, "Understanding and Reducing Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health," by James S. House and David R. Williams.

Image Thumbnail Public Education Network E-mail to a friend
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PEN is a national association of local education funds (LEFs) and individuals working to advance public school reform in low-income communities across our country. PEN believes an active, vocal constituency is the key to ensuring that every child, in every community, benefits from a quality public education.

Image Thumbnail Restructuring Government To Address Social Determinants Of Health (PDF) E-mail to a friend
REPORT from the Prevention Institute and Trust for America's Health

This report from the Healthier America California Convening in Sacramento, CA, February 2008 makes recommendations to enhance the federal government's role in addressing the underlying determinants of health. Recommendations include redirecting some funding to focus on prevention, training for staff at all levels to understand the health replika klockor implications of policy, and establishing a national-level data gathering and monitoring system.

Image Thumbnail Smart Growth Online E-mail to a friend
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In 1996, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency joined with several non-profit and government organizations to form the Smart Growth Network (SGN). The Network was formed in response to increasing community concerns about the need for new ways to grow that boost the economy, protect the environment, and enhance community vitality.  The Network's partners include environmental groups, historic preservation organizations, professional organizations, developers, real estate interests; local and state government entities.

Image Thumbnail Social determinants of health: the community as an empowered partner E-mail to a friend
ARTICLE by S. Leonard Syme, Preventing Chronic Disease, January 2004

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Image Thumbnail Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments E-mail to a friend
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The Strategic Alliance is a coalition of nutrition and physical activity advocates in California, working to shift the debate on nutrition and physical activity away from a primary focus on personal responsibility and individual choice to one that examines corporate and government practices and the role of the environment in shaping eating and activity behaviors. The Alliance's goal is to benefit the health and wellness of all California residents by promoting environmental solutions and institutional and government policies and practices that support healthy eating and activity.

Image Thumbnail Take Back Your Time E-mail to a friend
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Take Back Your Time is a campaign to pass The Minimum Leave Protection, Family Bonding and Personal Well-Being Act of 2007. This amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act would guarantee that anyone who's worked at a job for a year would get three weeks of vacation. On the site, you can download a handbook and other resources for mobilizing around this goal.

Image Thumbnail The Praxis Project E-mail to a friend
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The Praxis Project is a national, nonprofit organization that builds partnerships with local groups to influence policymaking to address the underlying, systemic causes of community problems. Committed to closing the health gap facing communities of color, they forge alliances for building healthy communities. Praxis trains its partner organizations and provides research, technical assistance and financial support to tackle issues impacting the well being of communities. Their site contains an information resource center with additional resources and reports on equity and social justice.

Image Thumbnail Time of Opportunity: Local Solutions to Prevent Inequities in Health and Safety (pdf) E-mail to a friend
REPORT by Dr. Anthony Iton of the Alameda County Public Health Department and Larry Cohen, Rachel A. Davis and Sharon Rodriguez of Prevention Institute

This 2009 report prepared for presentation to the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Disparities presents 32 recommendations for strengthening communities, improving quality health care access, developing our health system, and supporting local efforts.

Image Thumbnail United for a Fair Economy E-mail to a friend
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A national, independent, nonpartisan, non-profit organization, UFE raises awareness that replicas cartier concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. We support and help build social movements for greater equality.