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This article describes strategies to embed equity into the standard operations of the health department. These include incorporating equity-focused language into written documents like strategic plans and mission statements; utilizing an organizational evaluation toolkit (e.g. Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative Organizational Self-Assessment Toolkit) to find opportunities to improve equity focus of public health strategy; and establishing organization-wide equity-focused work groups to ensure the continued focus on health equity in future interventions.
Resource Details
- Setting/Context of Implementation: Workplace
- Topics of Practice: Organizational Change/ Development|Outreach/ Education/ Communications
- Outcomes of Interest: Improve Organizational Infrastructure|Reduction of Health Disparities
- Level of Evidence: Best
- Tools or Materials Included in Resource: Yes
- Outside of US: No