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The following selected resources are offered to assist the work and learning of our partners and website visitors.
- Notable Regional Reports and Publications
- Collective Impact
- Community Health Improvement Planning and Needs Assessment
- Community Health Workers
- Evidence-based Public Health Practice
- Food Systems and Policy
- Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health
- Health in All Policies
- Health Impact Assessments (HIA)
- Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Policy Resources
- HIV Services
- Integrating Public Health and Primary Care
- Public Health Workforce Development
Notable Regional Reports and Publications
- Uneven Opportunities: How Conditions for Wellness Vary Across the Metropolitan Washington Region (2018): https://www.mwcog.org/documents/2018/10/26/uneven-opportunities-how-conditions-for-wellness-vary-across-the-metropolitan-washington-region-health-health-data/
- Richmond Health Equity Report (2016): https://societyhealth.vcu.edu/work/the-projects/richmond-health-equity-report.html
- Maryland Rural Health Plan (2018): https://mdruralhealthplan.org/about-the-plan/
- Maryland Food Charter: Creating a Road Map for a Healthy and Sustainable Food System (2017): https://old.institutephi.org/our-work-in-action/policy-health-systems-improvement/maryland-food-charter-project/
Collective Impact
- Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work. Fay Hanleybrown, John Kania, & Mark Kramer Stanford Social Innovation Review (2012) http://ssir.org/articles/entry/channeling_change_making_collective_impact_work
- For additional articles from the Stanford Social Innovation Review on collective impact: http://ssir.org/articles/entry/collective_impact
- The Collective Impact Forum. http://collectiveimpactforum.org/
Community Health Improvement Planning and Needs Assessment
- Community Health Needs Assessment. Community Commons. http://www.communitycommons.org/chna/
- Practical Playbook: Public Health. Primary Care. Together. https://www.practicalplaybook.org/
- Community Health Improvement Navigator. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/chinav/
- Improving Community Health through Hospital – Public Health Collaboration: Insights and Lessons Learned from Successful Partnerships. Commonwealth Center for Governance Studies, Inc. (2014) http://www.uky.edu/publichealth/sites/www.uky.edu.publichealth/files/Research/hospital-public%20health%20partnership%20report_12-8-14.pdf
- National Network of Public Health Institutes. http://www.nnphi.org/program-areas/community-health-improvement
Community Health Workers
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) community health workers resources page. http://www.astho.org/community-health-workers/
- CDC’s Community Health Worker Toolkit http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/pubs/chw-toolkit.htm
- CDC’s Online Training Course, Promoting Policy and Systems Change to Expand Employment of Community Health Workers (CHWs) http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/pubs/chw_elearning.htm
- The 2014 National Community Health Worker Survey (NCHWAS). University of Arizona, Zuckerman College of Public Health.
- Making the Connection: The Role of Community Health Workers in Health Homes. New York State Health Foundation (2012).
- Complementary Roles and Training of Health Education Specialists & Community Health Workers. Society for Public Health Education.
- Best Practice Guidelines for Implementing and Evaluating Community Health Worker Programs in Health Care Settings. Sinai Urban Health Institute
Evidence-Based Public Health Practice
- ASTHO Resource Page on Evidence-Based Public Health Practice. http://www.astho.org/programs/evidence-based-public-health/
- The Guide to Community Preventive Services. http://thecommunityguide.org/index.html
- A Compendium of Proven Community-Based Prevention Programs. Trust for America’s Health and New York Academy of Medicine. http://healthyamericans.org/report/110/
- What Works for Health. County Health Rankings and Roadmaps. http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/roadmaps/what-works-for-health
- National Prevention Strategy. http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/priorities/prevention/strategy/
- Community Health Improvement Navigator. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/chinav/
Food Systems and Policy
Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health
- A Vision for an Equitable DC. Urban Institute. http://www.urban.org/features/vision-equitable-dc
- Roots of Health Inequity (online course) NACCHO http://rootsofhealthinequity.org/
- Center for Health Equity and Place. PolicyLink. http://policylink.org/focus-areas/health-equity-and-place
- Health Equity Guide. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dch/pdf/HealthEquityGuide.pdf
- Social Determinants of Health: Know What Affects Health (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/index.htm#_blank
- Health Equity Leadership and Exchange Network. http://healthequitynetwork.org/
- Health Equity and Prevention Primer. Prevention Institute. http://www.preventioninstitute.org/tools/focus-area-tools/health-equity-toolkit.html
- A New Way to Talk About the Social Determinants of Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. http://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2010/01/a-new-way-to-talk-about-the-social-determinants-of-health.html
- Webinar on Naming and Addressing Racism with Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD. American Public Health Association. http://apha.org/events-and-meetings/apha-calendar/webinar-events/naming-and-addressing-racism
Health in All Policies
- Health in All Policies Resource Center (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/policy/hiap/resources/#_blank
- From Start to Finish: How to Permanently Improve Government through Health in All Policies. Change Lab Solutions http://changelabsolutions.org/sites/default/files/From-Start-to-Finish_HIAP_Guide-FINAL-20150729_1.pdf
- Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments. Rudolph, L., Caplan, J., Ben-Moshe, K., & Dillon, L. (2013). Washington, DC and Oakland, CA: American Public Health Association and Public Health Institute. https://www.apha.org/~/media/files/pdf/factsheets/health_inall_policies_guide_169pages.ashx
Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
- UCLA Health Impact Assessment Clearinghouse. http://www.hiaguide.org/
- Human Impact Partners. http://www.humanimpact.org/
- NACCHO webinar course on HIA. http://advance.captus.com/planning/hia2/home.aspx
- Health Impact Project. Pew CharitableTrusts. http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/health-impact-project
- Healthy Places: Health Impact Assessment (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/hia.htm
Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Policy Resources
- IPHI Webinar: Creating Access to Healthy Foods in the Municipal Workplace One Bite at a Time
- HEAL Nation Webinar: Enhancing Walking and Biking in Rural and Suburban Communities – featuring Rockville, MD
- HEAL Nation Webinar – The Small Communities Toolbox: Best Practices and Messages for Healthy eating and Active living in rural and small jurisdictions – featuring David Harrington
- HEAL Nation Webinar: Creating a Culture of Wellness in Municipal Workplaces: Moving Beyond the Health Fair and Fun Run
HIV Sector Transformation
Integrating Public Health and Primary Care
- Healthy Outlook: Public Health Resources for Systems Transformation. American Public Health Associationhttp://www.apha.org/~/media/files/pdf/topics/aca/tranformation/healthyoutlookcomplete.ashx
- Accountable Communities for Health: Opportunities and Recommendations.
- The Prevention Institute https://www.statereforum.org/sites/default/files/vt_ach_opportunities_and_recommendations.pdf
Public Health Workforce Development
- Public Health Online: http://www.publichealthonline.org/
