Call for Papers: CDC's Preventing Chronic Disease
"Health Equity in Action: Research, Policy, and Practice"
Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) welcomes submissions for its upcoming collection, "Health Equity in Action: Research, Practice, and Policy." Advancing health equity and eliminating health disparities have been and continue to be critical areas of great interest to PCD. Healthy People 2020 defines health equity as the attainment of the highest level of health for people: "Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequities, historical and contemporary injustices, and the elimination of health and health care disparities."
Despite the wealth of frameworks on social determinants of health (SDOH), 2 current limitations are 1) the superficial description of factors that affect health and 2) a lack of focus on measuring health equity. Equitable implementation requires public health professionals to assess our work in terms of social justice and pursue fair, restorative, and equitable outcomes. In light of this inquiry, we propose that if we are to truly engage in equity work, all interventions and accompanying implementation strategies must address SDOH - the broad range of social, economic, political, and psychosocial factors that directly or indirectly shape health outcomes and contribute to health disparities. Health is not just the absence of disease but also the presence of resources and supports that people need to thrive.
More information at Call for Papers: Health Equity in Action
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Lloyd Michener, MD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health, Duke School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Public Health Leadership, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
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