Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: A Handbook  for
Action

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY & CITY HEALTH OFFICIALS,
Washington, DC

THE INGHAM COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Lansing, Michigan
 Edited by Richard Hofrichter

 Publication supported by a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation 2006

Available online as PDF file [252p] at: http://tinyurl.com/wq4vb

     ".........Health practitioners in local health departments
(LHDs) face  many dilemmas and struggles in seeking to protect and
improve the public's health. As the front line of the public health
response in local communities, they often must cope with immediate
crises and chronic issues with limited resources, restrictive
statutory mandates, categorical funding, and political pressures from state
and
local officials. Addressing the root causes of inequities in the
distribution of disease and illness might seem like a luxury. But it is
not....

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