At a glance
The Public Health Law Program's (PHLP's) Health Equity portfolio includes research on antidiscrimination laws, as well as research on public health law's impact on the social determinants of health. The resources below provide more information about health equity as it relates to law.
Resources
Health equity is the "attainment of the highest level of health for all people.1 Health equity can be achieved only by eliminating health disparities—the preventable differences in the health of one group over another as the result of factors such as race, sexual orientation, gender, disability, age, socioeconomic status, or geographic location. Law is a valuable tool to help achieve health equity.
Law and the Social Determinants of Health—Education, Housing, Environment, Economics
- Health in All Policies (HiAP)
- Team Health: Legal Landscape of Federal and State HiAP and HIA Laws American Public Health Association, November 2015
- Team Health: Legal Landscape of Federal and State HiAP and HIA Laws American Public Health Association, November 2015
- Housing
- Homelessness as Public Health Law Issue: Selected Resources A list of resources collected and published by PHLP that describe and comment on homelessness as a public health issue.
- Homelessness as Public Health Law Issue: Selected Resources A list of resources collected and published by PHLP that describe and comment on homelessness as a public health issue.
- Education as a Social Determinant of Health: The Role of Laws and Policies
- Environment and Health
- Webinar: Learning from the Flint Water Crisis: Legal Implications and Community Public Health Impacts, May 15, 2018
- Webinar: Public Health's Legal Authority and Safe Drinking Water American Public Health Association, April 5, 2016
- Webinar: Learning from the Flint Water Crisis: Legal Implications and Community Public Health Impacts, May 15, 2018
Antidiscrimination Law
- Balancing Client Privacy with First Amendment Rights in Local Health Department Clinics – Network for Public Health Law (networkforphl.org)
- Mechanisms for Advancing Health Equity – Network for Public Health Law (networkforphl.org)
- Balancing Client Privacy with First Amendment Rights in Local Health Department Clinics – Network for Public Health Law (networkforphl.org)
Other CDC Resources
- Health Equity
- Office of Minority Health and Health Equity: CDC Health Disparities & Inequalities Report (CHDIR)
- Office of Minority Health and Health Equity: CDC Health Disparities & Inequalities Report (CHDIR)
- Health Equity
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: A Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: A Practitioner's Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease
- Office of Health Equity
- Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention/Office
- Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention/Office
- Tribal Public Health Law Resources
- PHLP law and policy resources related to tribal public health
- PHLP law and policy resources related to tribal public health
Other Partners' Resources
- Building Streets for Health and Equity
- ChangeLab Solutions
- ChangeLab Solutions
- Health Equity
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
- Health Equity
- The Community Guide
- The Community Guide
- Health Equity and Social Justice
- National Association of County and City Health Officials
- National Association of County and City Health Officials
- Health Equity
- American Public Health Association
- American Public Health Association
- Health Disparities
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- 1. US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health. National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities. The National Plan for Action Draft as of February 17, 2010. Chapter 1: Introduction.