NACCHO Health Equity and Social Justice Toolkit
The Health Equity and Social Justice Toolkit is a database intended to help local health departments explore and tackle the root causes of inequities in the distribution of disease, illness, and death. It covers subjects ranging from social justice theory to public health practice, and includes journal articles, video clips, reports, PowerPoint presentations, book references, action guides, websites, and more.
Livable Cities Initiative Street films
Streetfilms is the video arm of the Livable Streets Initiative: producing educational, entertaining, and inspiring films for a sustainable urban environment. Their short, on-line videos on topics such as bus rapid transit in Bogota, Colombia, neighborhood traffic-calming in Portland, Oregon, and bike lane design in Copenhagen, Denmark have been viewed more than half a million times and used to support advocacy projects in communities from Toronto to Tasmania.
The Progressive Policies Database Collection
The Praxis Project's Progressive Policies Database Collection is an annotated and multidisciplinary collection of model local policies, programs, and initiatives on topics related to health and social justice.
Fostering Healthy Communities: Lessons Learned from CDC's Premier Community-Based Interventions
This supplement of Health Promotion Practice, edited by Larry Cohen and Fran Butterfoss, features 8 programs that provide innovative models for addressing illness and health inequities nationally and demonstrate the power of community- and institutional-level change to shape norms and improve health and well-being.
Active Living by Design's Communities in Action
A searchable tool of initiatives and communities across the country that increase physical activity and healthy eating through community design.
Eat Smart, Move More: North Carolina
Across North Carolina, people are making positive changes in their communities, families, schools, workplaces, and places of worship to help themselves and those around them eat smart and move more. Find out how they did it in this collection of success stories.
ASTHO 2008 Snapshots: State Activities to Promote Health Equity
With support from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health, ASTHO surveyed state and territorial health agencies on racial/ethnic minority health and health disparities. Of the 57 agencies surveyed, 46 returned responses. These shapshots show each individual state's response.
Unnatural Causes: Health Equity in Action
Unnatural Causes is the acclaimed documentary series broadcast by PBS and now used by thousands of organizations around the country to tackle the root causes of our alarming socio-economic and racial inequities in health. On the Web site that compliments the documentary series, there are several examples of promising initiatives happening on the community, state and metropolitan level that can inspire and motivate people to take action.
Complete Streets Policy Inventory
AARP and the National Complete Streets Coalition recently completed an inventory of 80 complete streets policies at the state and local level as part of a collaborative report, Planning Complete Streets for an Aging America. Inventory is available for viewing on the site.
Public Health Law and Policy: Rebuilding Neighborhoods
Learn how four California cities (Oakland, Richmond, San Francisco, San Jose) brought health into redevelopment.
E.P.A. Tribal Resource Directory for Drinking Water and Wastewater Treatment
This director documents how many Tribes have successfully secured help for their drinking water and wastewater treatment projects by obtaining funding and technical assistance from multiple programs and organizations.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Safe Communities Success Stories
Many organizations have added a traffic safety concept to their mission statement or implemented a traffic safety program to better serve their communities. Learn about tried and true activities, programs and ideas conducted by Safe Communities Coalitions throughout the country.
Making Cities Livable
The purpose of the Making Cities Livable movement is to enhance the well-being of inhabitants of cities and towns, strengthen community, improve social and physical health, and increase civic engagement by reshaping the built environment of our cities, suburbs and towns.
