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Politics of public health data: Empirical research to inform health ‘equity' in all policies, from global to local levels
Monday, November 2, 2015
: 2:30 p.m. - 2:35 p.m.
Zinzi Bailey, ScD, MSPH,
Center for Health Equity, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, NY
Nancy Krieger, PhD,
Dept of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Our session on the politics of public health data session focuses on presentations that use empirical research (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods) to examine the overall all theme of the APHA meeting, “Health in All Policies,” but with an important variation: Health EQUITY in All Policies. In the introduction, I will frame the idea of “Health Equity in All Policies,” and briefly comment on our conceptual and methodological rationale for including the rich arrays of speakers who will be presenting in our session. Topics to be addressed include: (1) evolution and evaluation of a novel “Health in All Policies” ordinance in Richmond, CA; (2) a critical assessment of data availability and gaps to understand sanitation and water access inequities in Kerala (India); (3) a study seeking to document information on use of police force in Oakland, CA and the obstacles encountered trying to obtain these data and steps taken to empower community members to obtain these data; and (4) a qualitative analysis of how the quality of tribal-state relationships affects the development of law and policy to improve tribal health, and which examines how health equity can be achieved, in light of the compounded disadvantage experienced by indigenous peoples that are mediated by tribal-state legal and political parameters.
Learning Areas:
Public health or related research
Learning Objectives:
Discuss different meanings of and approaches to achieving “Health Equity in All Policies.”
Describe quantitative and qualitative methods to assess conditions affecting formulation, enaction, and evaluation of “Health Equity in All Policies” in diverse political entities (cities, regions, state, tribal nations).
Keyword(s): Public Health Research
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have a social epidemiologist who has engaged with the politics of public health data, particularly involving criminal justice and health. I am currently a researcher at the Institute for Health and Social Policy focused on the intersection between causality, conceptions and measurements of health equity, and population health.
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.
