Sustainability
Sustainability is an indispensable component to addressing health equity strategy and interventions. In order to ensure that health equity is consistently infused into every aspect of your programs, planning for sustainability is essential. This page provides tools to help your organization sustain your health equity strategy and interventions.
Best Practices and Success Stories
Rural Community Health Toolkit – Planning for Funding and Sustainability — Rural Health Information (RHI) Hub
- Communities That Care Coalition — RHI Hub
- The Role of Communities in Promoting Health Equity — NIH National Library of Medicine
Considered most valuable resource
Evaluation
Practical Strategies for Culturally Competent Evaluation (PDF) — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Rural Community Health Toolkit – Evaluating Rural Community Health Programs — Rural Health Information Hub
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
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