BARRIERSPolitical Power Bureaucratic Inertia Legal Mandates Ignorance of Evidence

Eliminating Health Inequity: The Role of Local Public Health and Community Organizing

Identify Health Inequities

Examine Community History of Health Inequity

Evidence-base for Conditions that Produce Health Inequity

Attempt to Implement Change Strategy to Tackle Health Inequity.

CommunityOrganizing

Identify Change Strategy

PolicyAnalysis Leadership Youth Training

Consciousness/InsightCommitment/Motivation

Alliances/Coalitions Publication/Dissemination of Ideas

Develop Resources

Organized Campaigns(Direct Action, Protest, Advocacy)

Involvement in Social Movement for Transformation

Policy Change Institutional Change Democratization of Decision Making

Power Shift Generating Greater Social and Economic Equality

HEALTH EQUITY

Workforce Capacity Building

Research