Health Equity Policy Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to support public health leaders in leveraging the policy development process to achieve health equity in their jurisdiction.
This toolkit is designed to support public health leaders in leveraging the policy development process to achieve health equity in their jurisdiction.
There are significant disparities in pregnancy-related outcomes in the United States. Many of these deaths considered preventable, so state and federal policy makers are taking steps to improve health outcomes for pregnant people.
In 2020 and early 2021, state policymakers took action to raise awareness of the impacts of racism on health outcomes, to reverse the damage of racist polices, and to implement policy changes to ensure that future policies are enacted with ...