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Monthly Featured Topic: Anti-Racism and Health Equity
Economic burden of racial, ethnic & educational health inequities
Health inequities impact more than just an individual’s health, they can have a lasting effect on various aspects of a society or community, including wide-reaching economic impacts. In this P4HE webinar, speakers discussed how health inequities exist for racial and ethnic minorities, and persons with lower educational attainment due to differential exposure to economic, social, structural, and environmental health risks and limited access to health care.
Community and coalition building: How to amass power and create change
In this breakout session during the Partners for Advancing Health Equity 2022 Summit, panelists spoke about their work for the Austin Justice Coalition (AJC), a community organization that focuses on improving the quality of life for people who are Black, Brown, and poor. Since 2015, AJC has served as a catalyst for positive change towards economic and racial equity for Austin’s people of color by developing, organizing, and providing robust programs and events. Panelists shared a few of their achievements that have helped contribute to AJC's vision.
The Skin You're In: A Partners for Advancing Health Equity podcast
Black Americans and other people of color tend to live sicker and die younger than white Americans. Why is this happening? The Skin You’re In Podcast investigates this disturbing phenomenon. Hosted by Thomas LaVeist, Dean, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Partners for Advancing Health Equity, we talk to leading health experts about the issues and potential solutions, and we hear from individuals about their firsthand experiences of injustice and its effects on their lives and their communities.
Community Voices
You don’t need a big idea to get started to make a change in the community. I think just going to a community event [or] a listening session - just to hear people talk about their lives and lived experience - that’s where it starts. From there, you identify where you can help.
- Adam C. Alexander, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center