Research Guides: Health Equity Research Resources: Guides

Guides

Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data
This book shows how to implement a variety of analytic tools that allow health equity - along different dimensions and in different spheres - to be quantified.
The Role of Law and Policy in Achieving Health Equity and Attaining Our Healthy People Objectives
The Healthy People 2020 Law and Health Policy Project webinar held on June 13, 2019—The Role of Law and Policy in Achieving Health Equity and Attaining Our Healthy People Objectives—examined resources to help individuals understand which legal and policy tools may be available for communities and stakeholders to use in efforts to promote health equity.

ChangeLab Solutions
To foster collaborative thinking on these essential questions, ChangeLab Solutions created the Building Healthy, Equitable Communities Series, where we explored the topic of health equity. We discussed how law and policy coupled with community power can catalyze new opportunities for everyone to achieve their full health potential.
Community Assessment Guide-KC Health Matters
Use this guide to help you conduct your community health needs assessment and develop an implementation strategy.
Health Equity Data Analysis: Conducting a Health Equity Data Analysis
"HEDA: Conducting a Health Equity Data Analysis" provides information on how to think about and analyze data related to health equity, and serves as a starting point for understanding how to document health inequities in Minnesota. (While this guide is marketed as for local health departments in Minnesota, it could prove a useful guide for anyone analyzing health equity data).
A Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease
A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease provides lessons learned and innovative ideas on how to maximize the effects of policy, systems and environmental improvement strategies—all with the goal of reducing health disparities and advancing health equity.