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Implications of Health Equity and Social Justice for Public Health Practice

• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Health Equity and Social Justice Increasing health inequities have implications for public health practice, and NACCHO seeks to identify approaches to eliminate them through a perspective grounded in principles of social justice.

Documenting the Relationship between Health and Social, Economic, and Community Characteristics

• 2010 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports, February 2011. These reports from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality measure trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and efficiency of care. New this year are chapters on care coordination and health system infrastructure.
• Minority Health: Racial Disparities, 2011. Updates and resources on health disparities from the Kaiser Family Foundation, including an issue brief that examines health reform's implications for communities of color and efforts to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.
• Report of the National Expert Panel on Social Determinants of Health Equity. September 2009.
• Unnatural Causes:  Is Inequality Making Us Sick? A seven-part documentary series exploring socioeconomic and racial inequalities in health.
• Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health Final report from the World Health Organization’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health – Health equity through action on the social determinants of health (2008)
• Place Matters Washington DC
• Place Matters Prince George's County, Maryland