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Health Equity
Health Equity Resources
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- Guidance Documents
- Online Courses
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- Webinars
Holiday Tea & Talk
12.18.25 The CA Hub Training Team reflects on what’s shaped public health based on what we’ve heard from our network this year, highlight bright spots, and share practical tools and solutions.
What’s Working: Cross-Sector Strategies to Improve Community Health
6.27.25 The Community Approaches Training and Technical Assistance Hub recently hosted a webinar series focused on community engagement and innovative cross-sector partnerships to address health disparities. A new handout makes it easy to catch up—offering quick links to on-demand recordings and presentation slides.
Untapped Resources: Community Development as a Pathway to Public Health
6.10.25 Unlock new pathways to community well-being! Watch an engaging webinar exploring the powerful intersections of public health and community development. Discover how to build strategic partnerships and leverage untapped resources to create thriving communities.
Building Healthier Communities: Planning for Health Equity
12.11.24 In this webinar, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) introduce and review two key tools for internal strategic planning and community health intervention. NACCHO’s Strategic Planning Guide is a step-by-step guide outlining how to prepare for the strategic planning process and implement a strategic plan.
Housing as a Social Determinant of Health (SDOH) Across the Cancer Continuum
8.19.24 This webinar explored how housing as a social determinant of health affects individuals across the cancer care continuum. Featured speakers from American Cancer Society and the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) discussed multi-disciplinary opportunities for interventions and relationship-building across sectors.
Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Building Partnerships to Improve Tobacco-related Outcomes
3.28.23 In this webinar, one will understand the importance of SDOH in programming and partnership efforts, hear a case study illustrating real world application of the concepts, and identify proactive steps to take to create strategic partnerships.
Understanding Social Determinants of Health, Bias, and Cultural Humility to Improve Tobacco-Related Outcomes
11.15.22 This webinar, beneficial for state government programs, their partners and grantees at all experience levels and roles, will discuss: the foundation for tobacco related inequities contributing factors to disproportionate tobacco initiation and use among people with low socioeconomic status.
- Guidance Documents
Medically underserved areas and health professional shortage areas
This guide helps states, organizations, and partners better understand medically underserved areas (MUAs) and health professional shortage areas.
Integrating Health Equity into Strategic Plans
10.4.23 This 13-page document serves as a roadmap guiding state and local tobacco control programs through the process of crafting strategic plans that prioritize and integrate health equity considerations.
Recent Literature on Commercial Tobacco Use and COVID-19: Ongoing Implications for Tobacco Control Professionals
07.27.23 This 2-page guide presents research published in the past year investigating the relationship between commercial tobacco use and Covid-19 and offers guidance on post-pandemic implications for working with populations with low SES characteristics.
Health Equity: Understanding Social Determinants of Health, Bias, and Cultural Humility to Improve Tobacco Related Outcomes
This handout discusses: what is health equity, its root causes, and how cultural humility can improve tobacco related outcomes.
Principles of Health Equity in Tobacco Control with Low Socioeconomic Status Populations
The purpose of this introductory-level resource is to enhance awareness and knowledge about the intersection of health equity in tobacco control and populations with low socioeconomic status (SES) characteristics.
- Online Courses
Self-Paced Course: Promoting Health Equity in Tobacco Cessation: Evidence Based Strategies
12.14.2023 This 30 minute introductory level course focuses on removing barriers to accessing proven tobacco cessation treatment methods with a focus on populations with low socioeconomic status (SES) characteristics. This course was developed using the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change as a guiding framework, underscoring best and promising practices in engaging and supporting populations most impacted by tobacco-related disparities. By integrating these components, this course equips state department of health employees and their community partners with the tools to support individuals in quitting tobacco, reduce tobacco-related disparities and healthcare costs.
- Other Resources
- CDC: Health Equity in Tobacco and Prevention Control >
- Truth Initiative: Achieving health equity in tobacco control >
- CDC: Cigarette Smoking and Tobacco Use Among People of Low Socioeconomic Status >
- CDC: Unfair and Unjust Practices and Conditions Harm People with Low Socioeconomic Status and Drive Health Disparities >
- CDC: CDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication >
- ChangeLabSolutions: Equitable Enforcement to Achieve Health Equity >
- CDC: Health Equity vs. Equality >
- AltaMed Institute for Health Equity: Health Equity from the Frontlines: Embracing Cultural Humility with Dr. Christine Kho, MD Internal Medicine and Psychiatry on Apple Podcasts >
- The PublicHealthConsultant: Cultural Competence vs. Cultural Humility >
- Center for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas: Enhancing Cultural Competence >
- CDC: Engaging populations that Historically have been Underrepresented in Tobacco Control Surveillance and Evaluation Data >