Publications & Resources
Healthy Urban Planning: The Concept, Tools, and Application
- November 2009
- University of Texas Medical Branch, Center to Eliminate Health Disparities
Addressing Health Inequities: An Environmental Scan And Assessment Of A Local Health System. Submitted September, 2009
- Prepared by Lauri Andress, Ph.D.
Systematic Neighborhood Observation Tools And Building A Healthy Urban Development Strategy: Interviews With Key Informants, Galveston, Texas. November 22, 2009
- By Lauri Andresss, Ph.D.
Addressing Health Inequities: Health Equity Readiness In Local Health Systems.
- Prepared by Lauri Andress, Ph.D. December 2009
Health Equity Readiness Domains: A Diagram
- By Lauri Andress, Ph.D.
Presented by Lauri Andress, Ph.D. 7th Annual Disparities in Health in America Workshop. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Center for Research on Minority Health, June, 2009. (Length 68 minutes, file size 197 mb. Download free Quicktime player)
Welcome to the
European Portal for Action on Health Equity
This Portal is a tool to promote health equity amongst different socio-economic groups in the European Union. Here, you can find information on policies and interventions to promote health equity within and between the countries of Europe, via the socio-economic determinants of health.
Pathways from deprivation to health differed between individual and neighborhood-based indices
By Cornelia H.M. van Jaarsveld, Anne Miles, Jane Wardle
Geneva Health Forum 2008
Social Determinants of Health - What is next?
Health Equity Readiness Domains
- By Lauri Andress, Ph.D.
Health Equity Readiness: Competencies and Summary of the Wisconsin Division of Public Health Assessment
- by Lauri Andress, Ph.D.
A common framework to identify a health disparities project based on population health principles.
- A presentation by Lauri Andress, Ph.D. for the Texas Society for Public Health Education Spring Conference 2009
August 2008 Report: The World Health Organization's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health
- (The) toxic combination of bad policies, economics, and politics is, in large measure responsible for the fact that a majority of people in the world do not enjoy the good health that is biologically possible," the Commissioners write in Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health. "Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale.
Unnatural Causes Film Screening and Panel Discussion, Houston Area Urban League Op-Ed
- By Judson W. Robinson III and Lauri Andress, Ph.D.
Closing the Gap in a Generation:
Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health
- Conference: November 6-7 2008, London
What Is Community Organizing?
- By Lauri Andress, Ph.D.
David Williams' Comments on Health Equity: Implications for Policy and Practice
- A presentation By David Williams, PhD. Presented at the Louisville Health Equity Summit November, 2007
David Williams' Comments on Health Equity: Implications for Policy and Practice
- Summarized By Lauri Andress, Ph.D.
2007 Health Equity Speaker's Series Louisville Center for Health Equity
Building and Measuring Civic Capacity
- By Lauri Andress, Ph.D.
The Concept of Health Equity
- By Lauri Andress, Ph.D.
Building a Social Movement for Health Equity
- By Lauri Andress, Ph.D
Building a Social Movement for Health Equity: Narratives and Shaping Discourse
- By Lauri Andress, Ph.D
What is Civic Engagement? A Qualitative Study on the Meaning
- By Lauri Andress, Ph.D
What Is Civic Engagement? Part II A Qualitative Study
- By Lauri Andress, Ph.D
Health Inequities vs. Health Disparities
- By Lauri Andress, Ph.D
Milwaukee Center for Health Equity
- By Lauri Andress, Ph.D and Geof Swain, M.D.
The Elements of Health Equity Readiness: Building A New Model for Public Health - A Case Study of Kentucky and Wisconsin
- By Lauri Andress, Ph.D
Racial/Ethnic Discrimination as a Direct and Indirect Cause of Health Inequities
- By Jeff Denis and Lauri Andress, Ph.D
Tackling health inequalities: An all-Ireland approach to social determinants (405 KB PDF)
Report highlighting the extent to which health outcomes are influenced by social factors, such as poor housing, nutrition, and education, and explains the higher level of ill-health found among poor and socially excluded groups in Ireland. Combat Poverty Agency, 2008.
Health status determinants: Lifestyle, environment, health care resources and efficiency (1.76 MB PDF)
Paper on the contribution of health care and other determinants to the health status of the population. Provides evidence on whether or not health care resources are producing similar value for money across OECD countries. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008.
Health for all? A critical analysis of public health policies in eight European countries (2.09 MB PDF)
Report analysis of public health policies with emphasis on health equity. Countries include: Denmark, Finland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Swedish National Institute of Public Health, 2008.
Health equity through intersectoral action: An analysis of 18 country case studies (1.85 MB PDF)
Compilation of case studies that outline diverse experiences of action across sectors with positive impacts for health and health equity. World Health Organization, 2008.