Pathways to Population

Health Equity

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Public health has always prioritized health equity – but we have not always had the tools or set-up to help us take strategic action together with the public. Pathways to Population Health Equity (P2PHE) helps to fill this gap. P2PHE offers a framework, roadmaps, compass, and tools for public health practitioners to build a more prepared, resilient, and proactive public health system at every level. The framework and associated tools can be adapted to the issues most prominent in your own jurisdiction. Whether you are an individual public health change agent in the community, a tribal health department leader, a health officer for a small rural or large city health department, a state or territorial health officer, if you are working to strategically advance population health with an equity lens, this guide is for you. Explore the guide and resources below.

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Pathways to Population Health Equity Compass

This assessment tool helps public health change agents see where they are in their health equity journey and chart a path forward. Users can choose between cond...

Pathways to Population Health Case Studies

This collection of case studies outlines the work of health care change agents in utilizing the Pathways to Population Health Framework, Compass, and other reso...

Pathways to Population Health Equity Action Plan

This collaboration tool guides users through the process of documenting and identifying priority areas and strategies to advance health equity.

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Understanding the Collaboration Continuum

This written story describes levels of collaboration and the capacities needed for each level.

Types of Communication Networks

This webpage describes five types of communication networks that can occur in an organization or community.

Community Tool Box – Toolkits

This compilation of toolkits provides information and resources for a variety of community work objectives, including building leadership, assessing communit...

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

This video resource consists of a conversation with author of “Sum of Us” about shifting the narrative of the journey of equity from a zero-sum...

The Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-being of the Nation

This series of webinars designed for public health practitioners discusses racism and its impact on health and well-being.

Ten Essential Practices for Transforming Regional Health and Well-being Through Regional Stewardship

This document outlines the ten most essential practices that...

Supporting Mental and Behavioral Health: A New Public Health Crisis

This resource is a legislative prospectus around mental health and addictions.

State Policy Can Reduce Systemic Racism in Public Health

This blog post examines the role of state policies in reducing systemic racism within the public health sector. The impacts of existing state policies, like...

Resource Library for Advancing Health Equity in Public Health

This webpage provides tools and template for public health departments in taking action to advance health equity.

Racial Healing and Achieving Health Equity in the United States

This issue brief discusses policy opportunities to address racism.

Public Health’s Unique Role in Addressing Both Social Needs and Social Determinants

This brief explores how the public health sector is uniquely positioned to assist at the intersection of public health, social needs, and social...

Promoting Internal Communication

This webpage provides information on how to make sure that your organization runs smoothly and effectively by promoting official and unofficial internal comm...

Meeting Individual Social Needs Falls Short of Addressing Social Determinants of Health

This written story distinguishes social needs from social determinants/...

Levels of Racism: A Theoretical Framework and a Gardener’s Tale

The author presents a theoretic framework for understanding racism on three levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. This framework...

Improving Health Equity Through Rural Economic Development

This webinar describes the link between rural educational and economic development and health outcomes in Klamath County, Oregon.

How To Build a Diverse Coalition

This webpage provides strategies to recruit diverse leaders and community residents into your community coalition.

How Racism Makes Us Sick

This article explains how everyday racism and structural inequities add up to poor health and life outcomes.

HHS’s Strategic Approach to Addressing Social Determinants of Health to Advance Health Equity – At a Glance

This resource provides a brief summary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ approach to addressing social needs, social determina...

Healthy Places Index Policy Guides

This resource identifies evidence-based policy interventions to meet the needs of the community tied to indicators in the Healthy Places Index. Interventions...

Health Impact Assessment

This webpage provides tools to understand health and equity impacts of policies and programs across sectors, applied as part of a Health in All Policies Appr...

Health at Key Stages of Life – The Life-Course Approach to Public Health

This resource provides a description of key population health issues along the life course.

Healing Through Policy: Creating Pathways to Racial Justice

This issue bried is full of curated policies and practices that can be implemented at the local level to promote racial healing and advance racial equity....

Engaging People with Lived Experience: A Toolkit for Organizations

This webpage contains detailed strategies for engaging people with lived experience into care and change processes.

Countering the Production of Health Inequities

This webpage provides a systematic look at how exclusionary policies and systems produce health inequities in different neighborhoods by sector. It includes...

Connecting Public Dialogue to Action and Change

This toolkit is intended to help people go from community dialogue to mobilizing community change.

Complex Care Startup Toolkit

This toolkit provides tools to operationalize a system of complex care that address mental, physical and social needs together.

Community Health Worker Roles and Resources

This webpage provides resources for engaging a community health worker workforce.

Community Health and Economic Prosperity

This resource is intended to foster public health and business collaboration. It provides resources that make the business case for health equity and racial...

Communities of Solutions

This website is a review of key characteristics that lead to growing, equitable transformation in communities.

Everyday Democracy Communications Toolkit

This is a toolkit for equitable communications in the context of community change.

Budgeting for Health

This book chapter discusses how countries can effectively budget for health, or allocate national funds to the health sector, and why this process is importa...

Advancing Racial Equity Webinar Series and Discussion Guide

This series of webinars and discussion guides for public health and community practitioners is intended to facilitate conversations about racism and racial h...

Advancing Health Equity: Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts

This guide was created to stimulate critical thinking about language, narrative and concepts-helping readers to identify harmful phrasing in their own work a...

Addressing Health Misinformation

This is a curated toolkit with communication strategies from the Office of the Surgeon General.

A Primer on Community Power, Place, and Structural Change

This resource examines how health equity can be achieved through a community power-building approach to structural change. It defines community power, highli...

A Practitioner’s Guide to Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease

This guide aims to assist public health practitioners in addressing disparities in chronic disease health outcomes. It includes lessons learned from practiti...

A Pathway to Building Health and Well-being Through Regional Stewardship

This resource outlines the essential practices stewards commit to and develop to create equitable opportunities for everyone to reach their full potential fo...

10 Dangers of Collective Impact

This article examines the worst practices in using the collective impact approach for social change and lessons on how to avoid them.

Equity Lens Tool for Health Departments

This tool is intended for health departments and officials to help with making equity-centered decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Advancing CHW Engagement in COVID-19 Response Strategies: A Playbook for Local Health Department Strategies in the United States

This playbook from the Community-Based Workforce Alliance was developed to facilitate the conceptualization and operationalization of community health worker...

Healthy Neighborhoods Investments: A Policy Scan and Strategy Map

This document identifies policy actions for advancing health and racial equity through cross-sector investments. It also serves as a tool for community-owned...

Well-Being in the Nation: A Living Library of Measures to Drive Multi-Sector Population Health Improvement and Address Social Determinants

This article provides an in-depth explanation of the Well Being in the Nation (WIN) Measures, a living library of hundreds of measures that can be used acros...