Equity assessment tool

Hide this message. Home Health and social care Public health. Request an accessible format. If you use assistive technology such as a screen reader and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email publications phe. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use. The resources consist of: HEAT executive summary HEAT tool — full version HEAT tool — simplified version case studies demonstrating practical application of the tool and the main benefits of applying it in different work areas These resources were co-produced with Health Education England and are accompanied by an e-learning module to equip professionals with essential skills for undertaking a HEAT assessment.

Explore the topic Public health. Is this page useful? Maybe Yes this page is useful No this page is not useful. Every policy in every institution in every community in every nation is producing or sustaining either racial inequity or equity between racial groups. Racism itself is institutional, structural, and systemic. Related Resources: Laws and Policies.

States have a legal duty to acknowledge and address widespread or systematic human rights violations, in cases where the state caused the violations or did not seriously try to prevent them. Reparations initiatives seek to address the harms caused by these violations. They can take the form of compensating for the losses suffered, which helps overcome some of the consequences of abuse.

They can also be future oriented—providing rehabilitation and a better life to victims—and help to change the underlying causes of abuse. Reparations publicly affirm that victims are rights-holders entitled to redress.

Related Resources: Reparations. Structural Racism. The normalization and legitimization of an array of dynamics — historical, cultural, institutional, and interpersonal — that routinely advantage Whites while producing cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color. Structural racism encompasses the entire system of White domination, diffused and infused in all aspects of society including its history, culture, politics, economics, and entire social fabric.

Structural racism is more difficult to locate in a particular institution because it involves the reinforcing effects of multiple institutions and cultural norms, past and present, continually reproducing old and producing new forms of racism. Structural racism is the most profound and pervasive form of racism — all other forms of racism emerge from structural racism.

For example, we can see structural racism in the many institutional, cultural, and structural factors that contribute to lower life expectancy for African American and Native American men, compared to white men. These include higher exposure to environmental toxins, dangerous jobs and unhealthy housing stock, higher exposure to and more lethal consequences for reacting to violence, stress, and racism, lower rates of health care coverage, access, and quality of care, and systematic refusal by the nation to fix these things.

Related Resources: Structural Racism. White Supremacy. The idea ideology that white people and the ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions of white people are superior to People of Color and their ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions. Organizational Assessment Tools and Resources. We are valuators, not evaluators. Valuation is integration of all the ways of knowing.

Also in this section:. Through movement building, organizers can: Propose solutions to the root causes of social problems. Enable people to exercise their collective power. Promote visions and values for society based on fairness, justice, and democracy. Rita Hardiman and Bailey Jackson state that oppression exists when the following 4 conditions are found: the oppressor group has the power to define reality for themselves and others, the target groups take in and internalize the negative messages about them and end up cooperating with the oppressors thinking and acting like them , genocide, harassment, and discrimination are systematic and institutionalized, so that individuals are not necessary to keep it going, and members of both the oppressor and target groups are socialized to play their roles as normal and correct.

Nick Donohue. United Way. Social Determinants Framework. Sonali S. Balajee et al. Multnomah County, Office of Diversity and Equity. There is time in the training set aside for teams to practice using the assessment tool on a specific policy, procedure, or decision of importance to them. Use the assessment as a way to examine the impact of current or future procedures, policies, services, programs, or budget decisions on populations of color in a jurisdiction.

The questions are meant to help an organization understand how programs, policies, and decisions align with an organization's racial equity goals and outcomes. The authors recommend that the assessment should be completed by groups of people with different perspectives and backgrounds. This assessment and training was developed specifically for the City of St.

Paul, but could be adapted for other organizations.