Editors James N. Weinstein, Amy Geller, Yamrot Negussie et al.
Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States, The National Academies Press, 2017
583 pp. 16.5 MB
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. The book seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.