CDC Health Equity Video Series

 

Understanding and communicating about health equity concepts can be challenging but is important if we want to create a world where everyone has the same opportunity to be healthy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Office of Health Equity (OHE) developed this Health Equity Video Series to help people learn more about health equity and related concepts.   

We've all heard the terms, but what do they really mean in the context of health?

This series of short (2, 3, or 4 minutes) videos provides brief, illustrative introductions to complex issues on

• Health Equity
• Social Determinants of Health
• Racism & Health
• Intersectionality

Visit the CDC OHE webpage for more information about the Health Equity Video Series and to learn more about how to communicate about health equity. 

What-the-Health? Online Book Club Raises Awareness about Health Equity

The nonprofit group PatientsRWaiting works to eliminate health disparities by increasing diversity in medicine.

One of their initiatives is the “What the Health?” virtual book club aimed at raising awareness regarding health equity. With a virtual meeting the last Wednesday of every month, they bring together a diverse group of people with new perspectives.

Visit What-the-Health Book Club for more information and to join an event.

Here are the Summer 2020 titles up for discussion:

The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World

Just Medicine: The Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care

Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race & Medicine

At present, Ascension Wisconsin Library Services does not own or offer access to any of these titles.  Since we are working from home for the duration of the pandemic, we are not circulating print books simply because we are not on site to manage the physical process or infection prevention measures related to circulating print material.  

If you are interested in participating in these virtual book discussions, please purchase your own copies of the books.  Or try your local public library who may have digital copies available to lend.  

Although we don't own these books, we certainly encourage the discussions around health equity.