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Health & Wealth: Using Data to Address Income Inequality
Poverty and financial insecurity can have profound negative effects on mental and physical health outcomes.
Health and Well-Being
This tool is a portion of the National Quality Forum website where you can access reports that focus on measurement and tracking progress for population health. It can be found in Evaluate Actions under...
Health Behaviors
Tobacco Use How many pregnant women or high school age individuals smoke? What local or state policies are in place regarding secondhand smoke? How...
Health Care Equity: Tool Kit for a Winning Policy Strategy
This toolkit (from The Praxis Project) provides analytical frameworks, tools, and concepts, drawing on lessons from successful grassroots policy advocacy that effectively shifted emphasis from individual blaming (behavior change) to institutional accountability (policy change).
Health Care Leader Action Guide to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions
This tool (from Commonwealth Fund and Health Research and Education Trust) provides step-by-step instructions to analyze, evaluate, and amend your institution’s practices to reduce readmissions. It can be found in the Healthcare Professional and Advocate guide under...
Health care provider reminder systems for tobacco cessation
Implement systems that help health professionals support patient tobacco cessation, often with referrals, self-help pamphlets, and pharmacotherapy
Health care screening & follow-up for intimate partner violence
Assesses past or present experience of intimate partner violence among female patients in health care settings and provides follow-ups such as counseling or referrals for services
Health career recruitment for minority students
Recruit and train underrepresented minority (URM) students for careers in health fields via information about health careers, classes, practicum experiences, advising about college or medical school admissions, etc.
Health Communicator's Social Media Toolkit
This is a tool (from CDC) that provides information on all forms of social media. It can be found in Act on What's Important under Learning and Resources.
Health Equity
This tool (from ASTHO) contains sample slide presentations and examples of how states are leading health equity efforts. It can be found in the Public Health Professional and Advocate guide under...