Public Health: HEALTH EQUITY & CRIMINAL JUSTICE

The AMA Center for Health Equity works to embed health equity across the AMA organization so that health equity becomes part of the practice, process, action, innovation, and organizational performance and outcomes.

Human Impact Partners transforms the field of public health to center equity and builds collective power with social justice movements. - from the homepage of the HIP website.
Key initiative of this organization are:
-Health Instead of Punishment Program
-Health Equity Guide
-Public Health Awakened

The National Council for Mental Wellbeing is a membership organization that drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. We advocate for policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality services, - from the "About Us" webpage

Prevention Institute (PI) is a national nonprofit with offices in Oakland, Los Angeles, Houston, and Washington, D.C. Our mission is to build prevention and health equity into key policies and actions at the federal, state, local, and organizational level to ensure that the places where all people live, work, play and learn to foster health, safety and wellbeing. Since 1997, we have partnered with communities, local government entities, foundations, multiple sectors, and public health agencies to bring cutting-edge research, practice, strategy, and analysis to the pressing health and safety concerns of the day. We have applied our approach to injury and violence prevention, healthy eating and active living, land use, health systems transformation, and mental health and wellbeing, among other issues. - from the "About Us" webpage

This page provides resources for learning about social determinants of health and how it impacts communities. Find graphics, in-depth definitions, and links to other resources.

The PhenX Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Assessments Collection, available in the PhenX Toolkit, contains 19 new protocols that expand on the previous SDOH collection to help measure upstream factors that shape behaviors and health outcomes. This collection provides a common currency for studying SDOH across public health research studies. - from the website.

This website connects you to CDC resources for SDOH data, research, tools for action, programs, and policy. They may be used by people in public health, community organizations, research organizations, and health care systems to assess SDOH and improve community well-being. Information and tools available on this website were generated or funded by CDC within the last 10 years. - from the website.

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UNNATURAL CAUSES sounds the alarm about the extent of our glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, UNNATURAL CAUSES crisscrosses the country investigating the findings that are shaking up conventional understanding of what really makes us healthy or sick. - from the Kanopy description