Community Health and Health Equity Program builds healthy communities and eliminates health disparities. We provide national leadership in community health promotion and disease prevention through innovative programs; such as, Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH), and State-Based Epidemiology for Public Health Programs (STEPPS). These cross-cutting programs help expand CDC’s ability to develop community-based health promotion strategies.

 

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Promoting Health Equity—A Resource to Help Communities Address Social Determinants of Health [5.7Mb]

This workbook is for community-based organizations seeking to affect the social determinants of health through community-based participatory approaches and nontraditional partnerships.

Chronic Disease Indicators

The Chronic Disease Indicators (CDI) are a cross-cutting set of 97 indicators that were developed by consensus and that allows states, territories and large metropolitan areas to uniformly define, collect, and report chronic disease data that are important to public health practice and readily available at the state level.

Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Action Institute:

A three-year pilot project supporting teams that join the social movement to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities.  The project equips community teams with the knowledge and tools necessary to launch and sustain an effective local community action plan.