Promoting Health Equity - A Resource to Help Communities Address ...

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Photovoice
Community audits
Health impact
assessment
MOVING FORWARD
Social
Economic
Environment
Social
Economic
Environment
Social
Economic
Environment
Identifying Social Determinants of Health
> Ask partners to think 20–25 years into the future and imagine
how they would like life to be different in their community.
> Invite outside speakers who can help inform the partnership
about social determinants of health and how they contribute
to health inequities in the community.
> Pictures of people, places, or events that can be used to describe or tell a story
about the community, such as:
• People talking or greeting one another; people arguing or acting hostile to
one another.
• Closed schools or businesses, building remodeling, or construction.
• Trees, art or cultural decoration; abandoned cars or litter.
> Documentation (e.g., checklists, inventories) of observations of people, places,
equipment, maintenance, or aesthetics in the community environment, such as:
• People engaging in physical activities; people driving in cars.
• Absence of grocery stores, supermarkets, and produce markets; presence of
fast food restaurants and convience stores.
• Parks with paved, marked, multi-use trails; playgrounds with broken swings
or rusty equipment.
> Existing evidence: published reviews, gray literature, and views and opinions of
people and organizations affected by the issue.
> Identifcation of health relevance of a policy or project of interest.
> Estimation of the size of health impact of the policy or project of interest.
> Identifcation of key health issues and concerns.
> Take a walking tour of different areas of the community
and ask partners to take pictures that represent conditions
or social determinants they would like to address in the
community.