Management

State and Local Policy Initiatives to Reduce Health Disparities

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Although some attention is paid to the reduction of health disparities at the national level, information about successful efforts at the state and local levels is seldom heard. What are the policy levers that have led to suc- cessful state or local initiatives? To make progress at the national level, it is important to understand what has worked at other levels of government. Similarly, successes in other nations might provide important lessons for the United States. For example, what is going on with health inequali- ties in England, where there is clear accountability and strong support for reducing health disparities? The present workshop, then, was designed to focus on state and local policy initiatives to improve health disparities. The workshop also included information about efforts at reducing health disparities in England. There, health officials carefully look at the data to identify the drivers of health disparities. Once this has occurred, they then figure out who is responsible and who has leverage over those issues and then get local agencies to work together.

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: ., 2011

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1-139

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English

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978-0-309-18745-9

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State and Local Policy Initiatives to Reduce Healt

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