Creating a Business Case for Health Equity
Hesitancy around incorporating health equity into an organization can happen due to not knowing where or how to start. This page provides guidance on how to incorporate health equity into your organization’s strategic planning, as well as how to leverage your community needs assessment in developing a health equity strategy.
Community Needs Assessment
Community Health Needs Assessment — Community Commons
- Applying a Health Equity Lens to the CHNA Process — American Hospital Association
- Kansas Health Matters
- Embracing Equity in Community Health Improvement (PDF) — Health Resources in Action
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Strategic Planning
Rural Health Equity Toolkit — Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub)
- The Health Equity Roadmap — American Hospital Association, Institute for Diversity and Health Equity
- Disparities Impact Statement (PDF) — Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Understanding and Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Opportunities to Improve Health Outcomes, A Guide for Rural Health Care Leaders (PDF) — Rural Policy Research Institute, Rural Health Value, and Stratis Health
- Improving Quality and Achieving Equity: A Guide for Hospital Leaders (PDF) — The Disparities Solution Center at Massachusetts General Hospital
Considered most valuable resource
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A program of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Definitions
Health disparity
inequities in the quality of health, health care, and health outcomes experienced by groups based on social, racial, ethnic, economic, and environmental characteristics
Health equity
the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health
Health-related social needs (HRSN)
an individual’s unmet, adverse social conditions (e.g., housing instability, homelessness, nutrition insecurity) that contribute to poor health and are a result of underlying social drivers of health (SDOH)
Social drivers of health (SDOH)
also known as “social determinants of health,” the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age that are shaped by the distribution of money, power, and resources and impacted by factors such as institutional bias, discrimination, racism, and more
Resources are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by KFMC or its partners.
