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Using Race and Ethnicity Data to Advance Health Equity: Examples, Promising Practices, Remaining Challenges, and Next Steps

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This report examines how health care organizations collect and use race and ethnicity data, identifies ongoing data quality and governance barriers, and shares promising practices for monitoring and reducing inequities.

Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity

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This publication reviews the root causes of health inequity, presents community-based solutions, and recommends actions that organizations and partners across sectors can take to expand opportunity and improve health equity.

Perspectives on Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health

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This edited collection examines the research, policies, institutional systems, and community conditions that shape health inequities and offers recommendations for cross-sector action.

Community Power and Health Equity: Closing the Gap between Scholarship and Practice

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This report explores how community power influences health and health equity by connecting research, organizing practices, policy change, and investment in community-led solutions.

Transformational Community Engagement to Advance Health Equity

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This publication explains how community engagement can advance health equity when it shares decision-making power, addresses power imbalances, and is grounded in trust, transparency, mutual accountability, and sustained relationships.

Commonwealth Fund 2026 State Health Disparities Report

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This report compares health care access, quality, use, and outcomes across racial and ethnic groups in every state, helping communities and decision-makers identify persistent disparities and opportunities for action.

A Community Guide to Advance Health Equity

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This community-created guide shares practical strategies for building trust, developing culturally and linguistically responsive communications, aligning work with community priorities, strengthening partnerships, and sustaining organizational capacity to advance health equity.

The Four Essential Elements of an Asset-Based Community Development Process

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This learning material introduces the four essential elements of Asset-Based Community Development—resources, methods, functions, and evaluation—and explains how communities can use them to strengthen collective visioning and action.

Health Equity Guide

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This interactive guide offers 15 strategic practices and real-world examples to help organizations plan, implement, and sustain health equity and racial justice work in partnership with communities.

Improving Health Equity through ABCD

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This learning material introduces Asset-Based Community Development as an approach that helps communities build on their existing strengths, resources, and potential while centering community members as active participants in improving their own health and well-being.