Title: Health Equity: Why It Matters, and How To Take Action - RWJF
Headings: Achieving Health Equity
Achieving Health Equity
Why Equity Matters
Health Equity and COVID-19
The Interplay Between Culture and Health
Series // Cultures and Health
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FEATURED HEALTH EQUITY RESOURCES
Defining Health Equity
Communities in Action
Your Address & Your Lifespan
#PromoteHealthEquity
Explore the Evidence
Discriminatory Practices
Early Childhood
Geography/Rurality
Structural Racism
Unstable Housing
Wealth & Income
What's Working in Other Countries
Health Equity: What We're Learning from the World
Latest Health Equity News & Research
Improving Access to Paid Family Leave to Achieve Health Equity
Why Discrimination is a Health Issue
2020 RWJF Health Equity Award Winners Announced
Health Equity in Action
What You Can Do to Take Action for Health Equity
What Everyone Can Do
Featured RWJF Grantees and Initiatives
Culture of Health Leaders
Culture of Health Prize
Forward Promise
Health Equity Awards

Content: When in doubt, consult experts on health equity. Apply an equity lens to news as you’re reporting it: Whom does this benefit? Does this impact vulnerable groups? Work in Criminal Justice: Increase officer training and mental health services. Promote individual sentencing decisions, and reject mandatory minimums. Treat nonviolent offenses as civil violations instead of criminal ones. Have clear, fair search and seizure rules for LGBT populations. Work in Housing, Development, or Transit: