title: Integrating Health Equity Into Practice and Policy.
abstract: Achieving health equity across all population groups is a goal that will require vision and commitment from all sectors. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a central role to play in this undertaking. In 2014, the Health Disparities Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the CDC made a series of recommendations to achieve health equity: (1) develop a CDC framework for action to achieve health equity; (2) identify and monitor indicators of health equity; (3) align universal interventions that promote better public health with more targeted, culturally tailored interventions in communities at highest risk; (4) support rigorous evaluation of all programs and interventions; (5) build community capacity to implement and sustain programs; and (6) support training and professional development of the workforce. These recommendations may serve as a useful blueprint for achieving health equity by state and local health agencies or other organizations.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Emergency Medicine and Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.
authors.forename: Lynne D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Richardson
mesh_terms: D000069576:Health Equity / Q000639:trends*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States