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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 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.