Health Equity Resource: A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity and Other Resources

A Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity: Community Strategies for Preventing Chronic Disease (Health Equity Guide) is a new tool developed by DCH to help public health practitioners address the well-documented disparities in chronic diseases. This resource offers community examples and ideas on how to maximize the effects of several policy, systems, and environmental improvement strategies with a goal to reduce health inequities and advance health equity. There are four sections in the Health Equity Guide:

· Incorporating Health Equity into Foundational Skills of Public Health

· Maximizing Tobacco-Free Living Strategies to Advance Health Equity

· Maximizing Healthy Food and Beverage Strategies to Advance Health Equity

· Maximizing Active Living Strategies to Advance Health Equity

Please share this new resource with your network of partners and collaborators!

1. Health Equity Guide Brown Bag Series – Tobacco – Free Living Strategies – Tues., Dec. 17^th – 12 noon – 1 pm – Chamblee Campus, Bldg 107, Conf. Rm#1B

On Tuesday, Dec. 17^th at 12 noon, the 1^st of 3 health equity guide brown bag sessions will be held on the Chamblee Campus, Bldg 107, Rm#1B. The additional 2 brown bag sessions will be held in January and February 2014 (Tentative Dates) – Information is forthcoming.

The purpose of the brown bag series is to introduce the Division of Community Health to the health equity guide via providing an overview of each of the sections (i.e. Tobacco-Free Living Strategies, Health Food and Beverage Strategies, and Active Living Strategies), navigating the section, and discussing how each section can be used by different branches/units of the Division.

A Microsoft outlook appointment for the Tues., Dec. 17^th brown bag was sent out to the Division on Friday, November 22^nd. See info below.

Save the Date!

DCH Health Equity Brown Bag – A Practitioner’s Guide For Advancing Health Equity: Tobacco Free Living Strategies

Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. (Please arrive 15 minutes early. We will start promptly at 12:00 noon.)

Chamblee Campus, Bldg 107, Room 1B 01206

All DCH FTEs are invited to attend an in-person DCH Office of Health Equity Brown Bag. This is the first of three brown bag sessions hosted by the DCH OHE. This session will include review the use and application of the web-based version of A Practitioner’s Guide For Advancing Health Equity: Tobacco-Free Living Strategies section. More detailed information will be provided later. For now, mark your calendars for this upcoming brown bag session.

Contractor Attendance: Branch Chiefs, Unit Leads and CORs may invite DCH contractors you have identified as needing to attend, with the permission of their companies.

We look forward to your participation!

DCH Office of Health Equity

2. Health is a Human Right Exhibit DCH Tour – Tentative Date Wed., Jan. 22^nd – 12 noon

The tentative date for the next DCH tour of the Health is a Human Right exhibit is Wed., Jan. 22^nd at 12 noon. Information and sign-up instructions for this date is forthcoming.

Source: Tarisha Cockrell, MPH, SciMetrika, LLC Contractor, Public Health Advisor, CDC/ONDIEH/NCCDPHP/DCH/OD/Office of Health Equity