Presentations on Health Inequities

* Health Disparities vs. Inequalities vs. Inequities (Anthony Fleg)

* Introduction to health inequities (Anthony Fleg)

* Defining equity in health (Bravemann, Gruskin)

* Measuring Inequities in health (PAHO)

Tools for Addressing Health Inequities

* Community Asset Mapping - moving away from the "needs-based" model, and focusing on the assets and resources of communities as the foundation for meaningful social change

* Mapping the assets of your community

* Bonner curriculum for Community Asset Mapping

* Canadian Rural Asset Mapping Handbook

* Community Based Participatory Research - a new model for research, using the input and expertise of communtities to help guide and direct research

* The Role of Community Based Participatory Research (AHRQ)

* Community Based Participatory Research (CCPH)

* Photovoice - social change through photography (a CBPR methodology)

* Visual Voices - bringing children and a Nation together through are (a CBPR methodology)

* Understanding racism - a critical, but often ignored topic, in understanding the inequities of systems that lead to inequities in health

* The Impacts of Racism on Health (Dr. Camara Jones)

* Undoing Racism Community Organizing Workshop (The People's Institute)

Links to Web Resources on Health Inequities

* Commonwealth Fund

* Physicians for Human Rights

* North Carolina Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities

* ImproveHealthCare.org