Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: A Handbook for Action

Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: A Handbook for Action
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY & CITY HEALTH OFFICIALS, Washington, DC
THE INGHAM COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Lansing, Michigan Edited by Richard Hofrichter
Publication supported by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation 2006
Available online as PDF file [252p] at: http://tinyurl.com/wq4vb
".........Health practitioners in local health departments
(LHDs) face many dilemmas and struggles in seeking to protect and improve the public's health. As the front line of the public health response in local communities, they often must cope with immediate crises and chronic issues with limited resources, restrictive statutory mandates, categorical funding, and political pressures from state and local officials. Addressing the root causes of inequities in the distribution of disease and illness might seem like a luxury. But it is not....