273947 A New Public Health Practice Targeting the Root Causes of Health Inequity

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

Anthony Iton, MD, JD, MPH , Healthy Communities, The California Endowment, Oakland, CA
     
I will present a framework that helps describe the spectrum of public health intervention opportunities from upstream to downstream. I will further describe the Drivers of Change that are a derivative of the BARHII framework and serve as the underpinning of TCE's Building Health Communities place-based work.

Learning Areas:
Program planning
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related education

Learning Objectives:
Understand the BARHII Framework. Understand the geographical distribution of life expectancy. Understand policy and community organizing approaches to tackling the root causes of health inequity.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Senior Vice President of Healthy Communities at The California Endowment, the state’s largest, private health foundation. His primary focus is on the foundation’s 10-year Building Healthy Communities: California Living 2.0 initiative; the goal of which is to create communities where children are healthy, safe and ready to learn.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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