Global Health: Health Equity

CDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication emphasize the importance of addressing all people inclusively and respectfully. These principles are intended to help public health professionals, particularly health communicators, within and outside of CDC ensure their communication products and strategies adapt to the specific cultural, linguistic, environmental, and historical situation of each population or audience of focus.

EQUIST is a web-based analytical platform used for strategic planning and prioritization of maternal, newborn and child health interventions, as well as allocation of related resources in low- and middle-income countries. The explicit goal of EQUIST is to reduce health disparities between marginalized mothers and young children and their better-off counterparts.

The FHI 360 team conducted this global health equity scan on behalf of the RWJF global team to shed light on key approaches and themes across programs, policies, and projects addressing health equity and related social determinants of health (SDOH) across our sample. Lessons gleaned from this global equity scan and desk review were guided by a core set of research questions and objectives established at the outset of the project.

The WHO Health Equity Monitor provides evidence on existing health inequalities and makes available tools and resources for health inequality monitoring.