Quick Guide
Definition: Conduct shared analysis with staff, multisector partners, and community/residents to explore the root causes of problems and co-develop strategies and solutions.
Why It Matters: Complex problems require complex solutions with the input of all partners that are impacted and would benefit from a fix. Shared analysis places equal value on academic, professional, and lived experiences
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| Webinars | Promoting Health Equity by Uniting Sectors Around Shared Data | ($3 fee to watch) This 1-hour webinar covers successful practices for data sharing as well as improving multi-sector collaboration and communication to address social determinants of health. |
| Guides | Community and Stakeholder Engagement | (Page 65-70) In this section of the COVID-19 Health Equity Playbook, CDPH provides actionable steps towards more empowering community engagement. The section gives the basic principles of engagement, real life examples of activities to solidify agreements and trust, and additional resources to explore the concept more. |
| Frameworks | IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation from the City of Long Beach Office of Equity Toolkit | (Page 28-29) This toolkit provides guiding questions and examples of how to apply an equity lens to multiple strategies, including gathering data and information (of interest for this competency). The guiding questions span different levels in the spectrum of early, established, and strong. Additionally, the appendix of this toolkit includes the IAP2 Spectrum of Public Participation, which can be used to guide shared analysis with external stakeholders from “Inform” to “Empower.” |
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| Examples | Mobilize Data, Research, & Evaluation Case Studies from HealthEquityGuide.org | This website showcases case studies of health departments that successfully mobilize data, conduct research, and develop evaluations within their departments and communities. There are case studies in all levels of our early, established, and strong spectrum, each with a description of factors that enabled the work, their impacts, and advice to replicate successful efforts. It includes five case studies from California LHJs. |
| Guides | Evaluating Community Programs and Initiatives | (Chapters 36, 38-39). Part of the Community Tool Box from the University of Kansas, this section focuses on how organizations can use Community Participatory Research to evaluate and make decisions on community facing programs and policies. The section includes a toolkit specifically focused on how to evaluate a community initiative with a detailed and easy-to-follow step-by-step guide. |
| Guides | Health Equity Data Analysis | The Minnesota Department of Public Health shares their Health Equity Data Analysis (HEDA) guide to assist public health workers in separating their data into different vulnerable populations. This allows organizations to look at health outcomes among different populations in their community and plan equity activities based on data. The guide explains how to do a HEDA step-by-step, as well as how to both share and use the findings. |
| 2023 CA LHJ Examples | Butte County Community Health Assessment (CHA) & Strategic Plan | For Butte County, shared analysis occurs during the Community Health Assessment (CHA), Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), and Strategic Plan processes. Additionally, some programs have formed coalitions or committees, or participate in other agencies’ coalitions or committees, where shared analysis and co-development of solutions may occur. For instance, the Public Health Director is a member of the Healthy Communities Collaborative Steering Committee which is an interagency body representing various partners in the community to address three main health improvement priorities. |
| 2023 CA LHJ Examples | Riverside County Equity Initiatives | To lead equity efforts for Riverside University Health System – Public Health (RUHS-PH), a diverse Health Equity Team was established whose fulltime job is to improve health equity in Riverside County while engaging with the community and multi-sector partners. Initiatives they have spearheaded include: the Riverside County Health Coalition, the Equity and Justice Taskforce, Health Equity Policy Action Plan, the Advancing Health and Racial Equity Report, a Health Communications team, and the Community COVID-19 Impact Hub. |
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| Guides | Powering Health Equity Action with Online Data Tools: 10 Design Principles | This report offers 10 design principles for effective online data tools developed to advance health equity. This report explains how to apply these principles and include a local, state, or national real-world example of how the principle has been applied and executed. |
| Guides | Principles for Using Public Health Data to Drive Equity - A guide to embedding equitable practices throughout the data life cycle | (Page 23) The CDC Foundation uses this guide to help different organizations utilize equity principles throughout all uses of health data. The guide shares the five data equity principles, with advice on how to apply them to data work, and actionable steps to take to integrate equity at each step in the data analysis process. |