Communities in action : pathways to health equity / National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.), author.

Contributor:

Weinstein, James N., editor.

Geller, Amy (Amy B.), editor.

Negussie, Yamrot, editor.

Baciu, Alina, editor.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health--Social aspects--United States.

Health.

Social medicine--United States.

Social medicine.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (558 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2017.

Summary:

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Contents:

The need to promote health equity

The state of health disparities in the United States

The root causes of health inequity

The role of communities in promoting health equity

Examples of communities tackling health equity

Examples of communities tackling health inequity

Policies to support community solutions

Partners in promoting health equity in communities

Community tools to promote health equity.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 18, 2017).

ISBN:

9780309452991

0309452996

9780309452977

030945297X