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Mapping Health Equity: Tackling Structural Inequities in Rural Communities: A Workshop

Completed

On June 13, 2017, the Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement held a joint workshop on Achieving Rural Health Equity and Well-Being: Challenges and Opportunities. The workshop was held at the Montgomery Prattville Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Prattville, which is located in central Alabama.

Description

An ad hoc committee will plan and implement a 1-day public workshop that will explore initiatives focused on improving community well-being. Particular attention will be paid to the intersecting challenges of racism, structural inequities, and poverty in the context of rural geographic regions. The workshop may include invited presentations on and discussion of initiatives created to tackle systematic disinvestment in rural communities and implications for improving the social determinants of health (e.g., jobs, economy, education, transportation, affordable housing) and access to and quality of health care services. The workshop is intended to illustrate some promising and constructive actions that rural communities facing these enormous challenges are taking to improve equitably residents’ health and well-being. The committee will plan and organize the workshop. A proceedings of the presentations and discussion at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Collaborators

Sponsors

Department of Health and Human Services

Other, Federal

Private: For Profit

Private: Non Profit

Staff

Karen Anderson

Lead

Alina Baciu

Lead

Anna W. Martin

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