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Keywords
Health Equit; ; Social Determinants of Health; Placed-Based Initiatives; Collective Impact
Disciplines
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Community College Leadership | Higher Education | Immune System Diseases | Medicine and Health Sciences | Public Health | Translational Medical Research | Virus Diseases
Abstract
The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) describes the strategies and infrastructure it has developed to fund its placed-based initiatives to address the social determinants of health to eliminate health disparities. Using a data driven and community-led approach, RIDOH funded 10 local collaboratives, each with its own, geographically-defined “Health Equity Zone,” or “HEZ,” and, to support the collaboratives, created a new “Health Equity Institute,” a “HEZ Team” of 9 seasoned project managers, and direct lines of communications between these assets and the Office of the Director of Health.
Recommended Citation
Alexander-Scott, MD, MPH, Nicole; Novais, MA, Ana P.; Hall-Walker, MPA, Carol; Ankoma, MPH, MSW, Angela B.; and Fulton, PhD, John P.
(2016)
"Rhode Island’s Health Equity Zones: Addressing Local Problems with Local Solutions,"
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice: Vol. 9:
Iss.
6, Article 5.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/vol9/iss6/5
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