Track 4 - Health Equity

Sharing Session - 90 Minutes

F5 - Implementation of a Health Equity Impact Assessment with North Carolina Health Departments

Presenter(s)

• Ld

  Leslie deRosset, MSPH, MPH

  Program Manager
  North Carolina Division of Public Health, Women’s and Children’s Health Section, Women’s Health Branch
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  Lindsey Yates, MPH, PhD Student

  Student
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• CH

  Cathy Henderson, MS

  Program Supervisor
  Mecklenburg County Health Department
• NB

  Nina Beech

In June 2017, local health departments (LHDs) in North Carolina received training to implement the Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA). LHDs selected one evidence-based practice with which to implement the HEIA and recruited community-based organizations and agencies, public and private health and human services stakeholders, content experts, influential leaders, and community experts to participate in the implementation, which took place in fall 2017.
A facilitated discussion with panelists from local health departments in North Carolina will discuss examining equity of existing evidence-based practices implemented by local health departments. Panelists will respond to a series of questions regarding the implementation of the HEIA in their respective county. By the end of the session, attendees will increase their knowledge of how to use a Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) tool in a local health department to evaluate the equitable practices of existing policies, programs, or interventions.

Keywords

Health Equity, Maternal and Child Health, Social Determinants of Health