Health Equity: Strategies for Action

A must-read resource to help you advance health equity across communities, organizations, cities and world regions.

In Health Equity: Strategies for Action, an array of pioneering health equity-focused researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy specialists from multiple sectors and disciplines deliver an incisive guide to health equity: why it matters, how to achieve it, and the state of the health equity movement across national and global settings.

Grounded in a multisectoral and community-driven approach to health equity solutions, this book walks you through key principles and practical approaches to advancing health equity and overcoming commonly encountered barriers to people’s health and well-being, including key social, structural and political determinants of health. The book features effective action areas and strategiies to address health inequities across issues of racism, gender, immigration, poverty, age, and other socially-determined factors, and highlights relevant case studies and lessons learned.

Health Equity: Strategies for Action is an essential resource for graduate and undergraduate courses on the topic. Professionals in fields as broad as public health, architecture and urban planning, social work, medicine, technology, early childhood, healthcare, community development, human rights, philanthropy, vital statistics, and disability advocacy who seek to integrate a health equity lens in their work, will also find this to be a vital guidebook in furthering their health equity goals. Policymakers and elected officials can also use this book enhance their knowledge on health equity, an approach to improve health for all, whose importance will only continue to grow.

Renata Schiavo, PhD, MA, CCL is a global health practitioner and a public health/sociomedical sciences academic with a deep commitment to public service, health equity, community engagement, and systems-driven solutions. She is a Senior Lecturer at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Comunication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media, and Engagement in Global Health, and a principal at Strategies for Equity and Communication Impact, a global consultancy. She is the funder and board president of Health Equity Initiative, a nonprofit volunteer organization, and serve as Senior Editor of the Journal of Health Equity, and on the editorial board of Heath Equity. She also leads an international summer professional development program at The American University of Rome. She is a well-recognized expert in health equity, health and risk communication, and global health/public health, and works, writes, and speaks on these topics in a variety of settings.

Jennifer Weiss, MA, has been in the field of public health for over 20 years, and consults for New York based nonprofits on public health policy, advocacy and education. She has worked on projects relating to workplace wellness, pallaiative care, health literacy, early childhood development, behvioral health, chronic disease management, nutrition, and the health consequences of loneliness and social isolation. She is also the co-author of two books of nonfiction, and two books of humor and has had Op Eds and articles published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Denver Post.