Expanding the Boundaries: Health Equity and Public Health Practice

Additional Information:
http://www.dialogue4health.org/web-forums/detail/expanding-the-boundaries-health-equity-and-public-health-practice

Description:
In late 2014, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) published a book called Expanding the Boundaries, Health Equity and Public Health Practice. Aimed at creating discussion and facilitating change, the book explores the ways in which public health practitioners might act on the underlying social inequalities that are the root of health inequities. Revolutionary and hopeful, it provides both overarching theory and practical ideas for moving public health work upstream, to successfully address causes and not consequences.
The book was a collaborative effort between a number of public health practitioners. The primary author was Bob Prentice, co-founder and former director (retired) of the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII). He will be joined by Jeanne Ayers, Assistant Commissioner of Health at the Minnesota Department of Health; Renée Canady, Chief Executive Officer of the Michigan Public Health Institute; and, Kathi Schaff, Health Equity Coordinator of the Alameda County Public Health Department.
Dialogue4Health is thrilled to have Bob join us for a Web Forum with some of his collaborators, where we will learn:

• Why public health should focus on the underlying social inequalities that create health inequities;
• The importance of creating an organizational culture that supports confronting those underlying causes;
• Approaches to working with communities to integrate social equity issues into public health; and
• Strategies for engaging agencies and organizations outside of the traditional public health sector in this work.

Please join us as co-authors of the book and collaborators in this growing field will share insights, methods, and lessons in making public health work more expansive in vision and more valuable in practice.