Student Health Action Coalition - UNC School of Medicine
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On Health Inequities
Presentations on Health Inequities
* Health Disparities vs. Inequalities vs. Inequities (Anthony Fleg)
* Introduction to health inequities (Anthony Fleg)
* Defining equity in health (Bravemann, Gruskin)
* Measuring Inequities in health (PAHO)
Tools for Addressing Health Inequities
Community Asset Mapping - moving away from the "needs-based" model, and focusing on the assets and resources of communities as the foundation for meaningful social change* Mapping the assets of your community
* Bonner curriculum for Community Asset Mapping
* Canadian Rural Asset Mapping Handbook
* Community Based Participatory Research - a new model for research, using the input and expertise of communtities to help guide and direct research
* The Role of Community Based Participatory Research (AHRQ)
* Community Based Participatory Research (CCPH)
* Photovoice - social change through photography (a CBPR methodology)
* Visual Voices - bringing children and a Nation together through are (a CBPR methodology)
* Understanding racism - a critical, but often ignored topic, in understanding the inequities of systems that lead to inequities in health
* The Impacts of Racism on Health (Dr. Camara Jones)
* Undoing Racism Community Organizing Workshop (The People's Institute)
Links to Web Resources on Health Inequities
* North Carolina Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities