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Health equity is when everyone

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has equal opportunity to live their healthiest lives.

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But how do we get there?

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One of the things

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that we've seen across the country

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is that there are populations

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that have historically been disadvantaged.

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And sometimes it's because of race and ethnicity.

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Sometimes it's because of where they live

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and how much money they make

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or where they go to school.

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So all those things

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turn out to really contribute

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to our health outcomes.

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And that's what we call

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the social determinants of health.

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I think it's our responsibility

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to understand those disparities

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and to really support

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communities and remediation of those challenges.

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At the CDC,

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we have multiple roles

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that we can play as a government agency.

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We're currently funding

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a variety of social determinant action plans,

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and these are geared towards communities

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pulling together at the state, local,

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territorial and tribal level.

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We're also working with a

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whole variety of communities

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to think about what works

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and what they need to continue their success

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in the area of social determinants.

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We've actually identified 42 communities

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that have successfully addressed

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some of the social determinants of health

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that we've been talking about,

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and we're learning from them every single day.

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We're now trying to understand more

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about how the public health system

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and these community coalitions

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can actually work together,

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because we think that is critically important.

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I think public health needs

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to be much more of a position of reaching out,

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bridging these gaps and bringing people together.

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A lot of this work

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really needs to be done

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in partnership with other sectors,

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and those sectors

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could be transportation, health care,

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it could be economic development.

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It's going to take all aspects of our society

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to really move towards a world

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where everyone has that kind of equal access.

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Please join us so that everyone can

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live their healthiest lives.