13. We have repeatedly referred to Hilary
Graham’s warning about the tendency to
conflate the social determinants of health
and the social processes that shape these
determinants’ unequal distribution, by
lumping the two phenomena together under
a single label. Maintaining the distinction is
more than a matter of precision in language.
As Graham argues, blurring these concepts
may lead to seriously misguided policy
choices.
[emphasis added]
Source: Solar & Irwin (2010) p.47
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17. CCDPH @CookCoHealth
Tell us if housing, health svcs,
jobs, schools, transportation
& recreation support healthy
living in your community.
http://ow.ly/RNBrE
June-October, 2015: Forces of Change Assessment
June-October: Community Themes & Strengths Assessment
September 1: Local Public Health System Assessment Mee=ng
June-October: Community Health Status Assessment
October 2015-January 2016: Community Partner & Strategy
Mee=ngs
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4 MAPP assessments planned by CCDPH
staff commi^ees
23. Iden=fy & confront systems of
privilege, dominance
You don't even have to be aware of it to receive
the benefit. And the thing that's really slick
about whiteness, if you will, is that most of the
benefits can be obtained without ever doing
anything personally.
john powell
Source: Interview with john a. powell edited transcript (2003) California Newsreel
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25. Power, after all, is the heart of the matter—and
the science of health inequities can no more
shy away from this question than can physicists
ignore gravity or physicians ignore pain.
Jason Beckfield & Nancy Krieger
Source: Epidemiologic Reviews, 31, 152-77 (2009) p. 169
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