Practitioner's Guide

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The Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease provides lessons from evidence- and practice-based strategies. The innovative ideas highlight how to maximize policy, systems, and environmental improvement strategies—all with the goal of reducing health disparities and advancing health equity.

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Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease

The guide has four sections:

  • Incorporating health equity into foundational skills of public health.
  • Maximizing tobacco-free living strategies.
  • Maximizing healthy food and beverage strategies.
  • Maximizing active living strategies.