At a glance
Communities, programs, and initiatives can use these resources as they work to remove barriers to health and achieve health equity. Health equity is the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health.
Community efforts
Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease provides lessons learned from evidence- and practice-based strategies. These ideas highlight ways to maximize the effects of policy, systems, and environmental improvement strategies.
Using Health Equity Principles in Communities provides suggestions for community efforts to reduce health disparities.
Healthy Neighborhood Investments: A Policy Scan and Strategy Map identifies several policy actions for advancing health and racial equity through cross-sector investments.
CPSTF Findings for Social Determinants of Health lists interventions reviewed by the Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF), with summaries of the findings for each. Includes links to a summary of evidence and supporting materials.
State toolkit
Health Equity Resource Toolkit for State Practitioners Addressing Obesity Disparities is for state health departments and their partners. The material is designed to increase their capacity to work with communities to help prevent obesity. The primary focus is on how to create systems and environmental changes that will reduce obesity disparities and achieve health equity.
Federal plan and resources
The Federal Plan for Equitable Long-Term Recovery and Resilience lays out an approach for federal agencies to cooperatively strengthen vital conditions necessary for improving individual and community resilience and well-being nationwide. Vital conditions identify factors that people depend on to reach their full potential, including:
- Belonging and Civic Muscle
- Thriving Natural World
- Basic Needs for Health and Safety
- Humane Housing
- Meaningful Work and Wealth
- Lifelong Learning
- Reliable Transportation
Thriving Together: A Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Communities Across America provides a guiding framework for things all people and places need to thrive.
CDC's Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication are intended to help public health professionals ensure their communication products and strategies adapt to the specific cultural, linguistic, environmental, and historical situation of each population or audience of focus.
National Youth Sports Strategy outlines steps to ensure young people have the opportunity and access to play sports. Playing sports is less common among girls, young people with a disability, those from racial and ethnic minorities, and those from households with lower incomes.
Implementation Science & Childhood Obesity: Sparking Conversations and Actions to Advance Equity is a recording of experts illustrating approaches across the phases of pre-implementation, implementation, and sustainability. They focused on interventions for childhood obesity, nutrition, and physical activity.