Key points
- The CDC Injury Center prioritizes health equity as a fundamental part of our injury and violence prevention work.
- Our focus is on building and sharing evidence that achieves health equity, while cultivating and strengthening partnerships to advance health equity.
What is health equity?
Health equity is the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health.
Achieving health equity requires societal efforts to address historical and contemporary injustices, obstacles to health and healthcare, and preventable health disparities.
Injury Center health equity goals
Goal 1
Establish and strengthen internal mechanisms for implementing and evaluating how health equity is incorporated into Injury Center work
Goal 2
Prioritize health equity as part of Injury Center funding opportunities
Goal 3
Build and disseminate a broader evidence-base to advance health equity
Goal 4
Cultivate and strengthen reciprocal partnerships to achieve health equity
Health equity in Injury Center work
- Injury Prevention in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
- The Injury Center partners with and supports native communities, federally recognized tribes, Tribal Epidemiology Centers, tribal organizations, and Indian Health Service to improve health and wellness.
- The Injury Center partners with and supports native communities, federally recognized tribes, Tribal Epidemiology Centers, tribal organizations, and Indian Health Service to improve health and wellness.
- Promoting Health Equity in Response to Drug Overdose
- Health inequities can contribute to increased overdose deaths and other negative health outcomes, especially among groups that have been marginalized. Evidence-based tools and resources and the implementation of targeted prevention strategies that address key drivers of health inequities can help curb the overdose epidemic.
- Health inequities can contribute to increased overdose deaths and other negative health outcomes, especially among groups that have been marginalized. Evidence-based tools and resources and the implementation of targeted prevention strategies that address key drivers of health inequities can help curb the overdose epidemic.
- MMWR: Suicides Among American Indian or Alaska Native Persons — National Violent Death Reporting System, United States, 2015–2020
- Suicide disproportionately affects American Indian or Alaska Native persons. Culturally relevant comprehensive public health approaches to suicide prevention are needed to address systemic and long-standing inequities among American Indian or Alaska Native persons.
- Suicide disproportionately affects American Indian or Alaska Native persons. Culturally relevant comprehensive public health approaches to suicide prevention are needed to address systemic and long-standing inequities among American Indian or Alaska Native persons.
- Vital Signs: Changes in Firearm Homicide and Suicide Rates
- Stopping firearm violence now and in the future requires a comprehensive prevention approach focused on reducing inequities. Strategies should address the underlying physical, social, economic, and structural conditions known to increase firearm homicide and suicide risks.
- Stopping firearm violence now and in the future requires a comprehensive prevention approach focused on reducing inequities. Strategies should address the underlying physical, social, economic, and structural conditions known to increase firearm homicide and suicide risks.
- Vital Signs: Drug Overdose Deaths Rise, Disparities Widen
- The growing drug overdose crisis, particularly among people from racial and ethnic minority groups, requires tailored prevention and treatment efforts. Comprehensive, community-based prevention and response efforts should incorporate proven, culturally responsive actions that address disparities in drug overdose deaths and the inequities that contribute to them.
- The growing drug overdose crisis, particularly among people from racial and ethnic minority groups, requires tailored prevention and treatment efforts. Comprehensive, community-based prevention and response efforts should incorporate proven, culturally responsive actions that address disparities in drug overdose deaths and the inequities that contribute to them.
Publications
- A national landscape: Injury and violence prevention health equity scan findings and implications for the field of practice
- CDC and Safe States Alliance conducted an environmental scan to explore how injury and violence prevention professionals advance health equity and racial equity in their programmatic work.
- CDC and Safe States Alliance conducted an environmental scan to explore how injury and violence prevention professionals advance health equity and racial equity in their programmatic work.
Resources
- CDC’s CORE Health Equity Science and Intervention Strategy
- CDC's CORE Health Equity Science and Intervention Strategy is designed to work in collaboration and lock step with multi-sectoral partners to transform our work at its very core and strengthen our ability to keep our nation safe and healthy – today and in the future.
- CDC's CORE Health Equity Science and Intervention Strategy is designed to work in collaboration and lock step with multi-sectoral partners to transform our work at its very core and strengthen our ability to keep our nation safe and healthy – today and in the future.
- CDC Office of Health Equity
- The CDC Office of Health Equity advances health equity and women's health issues across the nation through CDC's science and programs. The Office of Health Equity also increases CDC's capacity to leverage its diverse workforce and engage stakeholders to this end.
- The CDC Office of Health Equity advances health equity and women's health issues across the nation through CDC's science and programs. The Office of Health Equity also increases CDC's capacity to leverage its diverse workforce and engage stakeholders to this end.