Health Impact Partners

If we want to advance equity in public health practice, we must address race and power

Policy lborkowski | January 7, 2016

by Jonathan Heller Most public health practitioners, and those who work on health impact assessment specifically, want to improve the health of vulnerable populations. Most efforts to do so are well-intentioned, yet they often don’t lead to significant change. What do we need to do differently? Below is an analysis we at Human Impact Partners put forward. What Do We Mean By Inequity and What Are Its Causes? First, we are intentional in our choice of the word equity. Health inequities, as Margaret Whitehead said, are differences in health status and mortality rates across population groups…