A report providing leaders in community health centers, public health and policy an understanding of how health care providers can move beyond health care services alone to improve the health of the population by leveraging social determinants of health.

The directory contains an extensive list of existing data sets that can be used to address the need for improved conceptualization and availability of data on how the social environment impacts the health of populations. The data sets are organized according to 12 dimensions, or broad categories, of the social environment. Each dimension is subdivided into various components.

This directory grew out of a project based at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

This guide includes a wide range of questions and activities to engage many types of audiences in dialogue—from community members to elected officials. General prompts address the series' overall themes and key concepts, with ideas for sparking discussion before and after viewing, deepening comprehension, and turning the viewers' focus to opportunities for action in their community. Episode-specific prompts introduce the key themes presented in each episode, check for and deepened comprehension, and spark discussion around presented issues and how they may apply to their community. The guide also suggests activities to delve more deeply into key concepts, highlights features on the series' companion website, and lists additional sources for further information.

These seven small group discussion guides for use with the UNNATURAL CAUSES series acquaint medical and other health professional students with examples of specific health disparities that affect communities in the United States, bring attention to the role that social determinants of health play in these disparities, and foster discussion regarding solutions and action that can be taken to eliminate these health disparities.

Chapter start time, end time, and length for all the episodes, along with the corresponding DVD chapter numbers.

Linn Gould of Just Health Action – working with members of the Population Health Forum at the University of Washington – has developed questions for use with UNNATURAL CAUSES based upon a facilitation method created by the Institute for Cultural Affairs. Questions were generated and tested by the Population Health Forum and are available at their Web site.

The full Health Equity Quiz in a 6-page PDF - 22 questions, with more detailed answers and references.

Lesson plans and other materials about the Pima's struggle to regain their water rights, and the landmark settlement in 2004.

Public Health Advocacy Curriculum: This ten-lesson curriculum combines classroom- and community-based activities to teach students about the upstream or root causes of health, and to encourage them to become health advocates.

What is this thing we call 'race'? Where did the idea come from? What are the patterns of human variation? And if race isn't biological, what is it? How do our social institutions 'make' race? Used widely in classrooms and community spaces, This acclaimed three-part series compels viewers to scrutinize some of their most fundamental beliefs.

Also see the extensive companion Web site, with games, interactivities, and additional information.

This film is part of the Structural Racism sub-category of California Newsreel's African American Perspectives Collection.

These slides by David R. Williams, Norman Professor of Public Health, Harvard University, demonstrate evidence of the pathways by which racism, especially residential segregation, shapes health outcomes.

This handout describes several key resources that may be useful for audiences interested in learning more about the connections between population health and the built / physical, social, economic, and service environment.

This PowerPoint file contains 36 of the more important graphs from the Equity Trust web site and/or published in The Spirit Level, illustrating the relationship between levels of economic inequality within countries and health and social problems. They can be downloaded and used in presentations as long as you acknowledge The Equality Trust as their source.