Advancing Health Equity
A reflection tool for organizations, programs, and individuals committed to equity
In the Prioritizing Program and Policy Options module you can explore how to prioritize this information.
The next module is Prioritizing Program and Policy Options for Health Equity.
Understanding and Finding the Evidence
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What is scientific literature? 7 Where do you find scientific literature? 7
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What do recommendations mean? 7
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How is scientific evidence limited or evaluated? 7 Who currently holds power in this issue area and who lacks power? What forms of power do they have?
Questioning the Evidence
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How do we look in the literature for upstream causes?
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Who funded the interventions or systems and policies changes and their evaluation? 7
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What interventions or systems and policy changes appear to make a positive impact in the community/populations of interest to us? 7
Applying the Evidence
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How can the chosen interventions and systems/policies be adapted? 7
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How are we framing the interventions we propose? Is there a way to propose universal goals but targeted approaches/interventions (i.e., using targeted universalism as an approach) to make them more acceptable to decision makers?
Focusing on health equity when searching, summarizing, and interpreting the scientific literature enables a better understanding of the impacts and outcomes of specific programs, projects, and policies on different populations. This allows your agency, team, organization, or partnership a better chance of making evidence-based decisions when selecting interventions that will improve health and well-being in your community and among at-risk populations. The key questions in this module focus on searching, comparing, and analyzing the literature to improve health equity.
