Let’s Talk: Community engagement for health equity
Defines community engagement for health equity and encourages viewing community members as stakeholders and partners in public health decision-making
The Let’s Talk Series is a collection of resources designed to promote discussion and understanding of how key concepts in health equity apply in public health practice. Each resource contains discussion questions to spark dialogue, reflection, and action to address the social determinants of health.
Let’s Talk: Whiteness and health equity
Introduces the concept of Whiteness to public health audiences
Let’s Talk: Values and health equity
Positions values as structural drivers of health equity, influencing priorities and action and at the individual, organizational and societal levels
Let’s Talk: Ethical foundations of equity
Explores justice as the ethical basis of health equity.
Let’s talk: Racism and health equity
Encourages public health practitioners to act on racism as a key structural determinant of health inequities.
Let’s Talk: Advocacy and health equity
Highlights the importance of advocacy as both a strategy and practice within public health, and describes the different ways advocacy can contribute to addressing the social determinants of health and improving health equity.
Let’s Talk: Moving upstream
Describes how public health works at three levels- downstream, midstream, and upstream – to improve everyone’s chance for good health.
Let’s Talk: Populations and the power of language
Explores how the language public health practioners and organizations use to describe populations influences how we frame problems and solutions, make decisions, and implement acitivities that seek to reduce inequities between groups.
Let’s Talk: Public health roles for improving health equity
Offers public health organizations a framework for reflection and action.
Let’s Talk: Universal and targeted approaches to health equity
Explores the approaches public health organizations use to close the gap between the most and least healthy and reduce inequities all along the socio-economic status gradient.
Let’s Talk: Health equity
Describes the concepts of health equity and inequity and how they apply to public health practices.