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Hackastory Tools
This website offers a comprehensive and evolving directory of tools and resources to help you build your digital stories.
Handbook for Participatory Community Assessments
This tool (from the Alameda County, CA Health Department) walks through the process the department undertook with two neighborhood groups to conduct participatory community assessments.
Handbook of Data Collection Tools: A Companion to Guide to Measuring Advocacy and Policy
This tool (from Organizational Research Services) includes a number of tools for measuring advocacy and policy initiatives.
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 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 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...
Health Gaps Report Discussion Guide
We introduced the Health Gaps Discussion Guide (CHR&R) in 2015 with our original state health gaps reports. The guide continues to offer important considerations and tips on how to bring together diverse stakeholders to continue a conversation on health gaps, and how to create a safe space for dialogue.
Health Gaps Reports
These reports (from CHR&R) help answer the question: Why is there so much difference in the health of residents in one county compared to other counties in the same state? The reports explore how wide gaps are throughout each state and what is driving those differences.