The success of efforts to generate awareness around health equity issues comes with new challenges. At the moment there are a lot of uncoordinated efforts competing against one another for various strategic positions in the space rather than identifying how they can work together on the greater purpose. Although the emergence of commercial interests and homegrown programs are a good thing, institutional change of this magnitude comes from a community of collaboration and collective action.
We worked with The Louisiana Center for Health Equity to develop a system of partnerships to coordinate the information and resources required to make sure that every capable individual and organization who believes in the change can be a part of it. The Data & Action Health Equity Platform has been conceived to provide this system to individuals and organizations dedicated to improving public health outcomes in Louisiana. The research identified political and social determinants of public health and scoped a process broad enough to make incremental improvements at the state level. A literature review and field research were completed to understand the evolving terrain and develop the necessary use cases.
A health equity framework for institutional change was developed to guide the processes of transforming data into action. Awareness is only the first step in many of the accepted models for institutional change. The platform can inspire support for change, provide knowledge on how to help be a part of that change and provide the necessary resources to implement actions that sustain change. > Read the Report