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Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Equity, Racial Equity, and Racial Health Equity as Aligning Outcomes
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Mapping Aligning Processes and Outcomes: Equity, Racial Equity, and Racial Health Equity as Aligning Outcomes

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This brief poses questions for researchers and practitioners to consider when developing a strategy for measuring health equity, racial equity, and racial health equity as outcomes of an aligning endeavor.

Equity is important for aligning efforts for many reasons, both ethical and pragmatic. For example, improving health without a focus on systematically disadvantaged populations could further disadvantage those populations. This can be costly and unhealthy for the disadvantaged individuals themselves, and it can be costly for communities as a whole for reasons such as weakened social solidarity. Addressing the needs of disadvantaged populations can also build relationships between these populations and institutional partners, promoting participation in aligning efforts and increasing learnings from the lived experiences of members of these populations.

Aligning Systems for Health: Health Care + Public Health + Social Services, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and managed by the Georgia Health Policy Center, is focused on learning from stakeholders across the nation about effective ways to align these three sectors to better meet people’s goals and needs.
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Author Organization

Aligning Systems for Health, Georgia Health Policy

Publication Date

08.02.2021

Topic Area

Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs
Webinar

Aligning in Crisis: Strategies and Tools to Leverage Federal Funding

On 9/14, experts from Aligning in Crisis, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will discussed how, if deployed strategically and effectively, federal funds can advance equity, shift power to the community, and set the stage for positive, long-term change.

Webinar

Welcome to the TEAM: A Toolkit for Everyone Aligning and Measuring

This webinar presents the Toolkit for Everyone Aligning and Measuring (TEAM), a tool designed to help people think about measurement and strategy in their cross-sector health collaboratives.

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Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States

This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.

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