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2012 Public Health Law Conference
Practical Approaches to Critical Challenges

October 10–12, 2012
Loews Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia

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Why Place and Race Matter – New Report Released Today

Where you live impacts how you live. But, too often, policy makers don’t recognize that your race affects your health, too. From heart disease to cancer to child mortality to asthma, people of color are more likely to face significant health challenges – and more likely to die from those challenges. A new report we are releasing today, Why Place and Race Matter, makes the undeniable case that race must be central to the decisions made by policymakers, advocates, and community leaders if we ever hope to close the racial health gap. Download Why Place and Race Matter

Poverty in Black and White, and Latino and Asian

The fact that one in every seven Americans live below the poverty line is inexcusable.

Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that those making more than $250,000 were "the people who were hit hardest by this recession":

If you look deeper at the data, the story of who has actually been "hit hardest" is clear:

• More than one in four black and Hispanic people live below the poverty line
• Hispanics saw the biggest jump in poverty (2.1%)
• The biggest drop in real income was among black people and on-citizens (4.4% and 4.5% drop, respectively)

But this is not about numbers. It's about real people and real suffering.

Read the whole piece at Huffington Post

Health Equity Tool launches, and letter to Secretary Sebelius

Prevention Institute http://www.preventioninstitute.org is pleased to announce the launch of the Health Equity & Prevention Primer http://www.preventioninstitute.org/tools/focus-area-tools/health-equity-toolkit.html which is full of effective tools for community-based prevention.

With the recent passage of health reform (HR 4872), our nation has made anhistoric investment in prevention and wellness to support coordinatedefforts to achieve equitable health and safety outcomes. This investment comes on the heels of ARRA funds to support Communities Putting Prevention to Work. As groups across the country galvanize efforts to improve health, *Prevention Institute is pleased to announce the launch of the Health Equity and Prevention Primer HEPP: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Xfdzv1MoMnc%2BB3oABdYuxJkfLwMH9tgX

The primer packages a number of our effective tools for community-based prevention--like the *Two Steps to Prevention* framework, *The Spectrum of Prevention* and *Collaboration Multiplier*--along with researchand case examples from across the country, into an easy-to-access, online training format. Informed by national leaders in health equity, public health department staff and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,the Primer provides a rich array of resources to support learning,exploration and implementation. Continuing education credits are available for each hour of self-directed training.

Take a look and let us know what you think: See more* http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?=2&c=xooCFyEMBv2CJgtaixnfrpkfLwMH9tgX

PI and Policy Link recommend next steps to Sebelius

Prevention Institute and Policy sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services Director Kathleen Sebelius with our joint recommendations for allocating funding under health reform's Prevention and Public Health Fund.

Read the letter and recommendations

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dbq93lAkeqYaAgs%2BZu6sTJkfLwMH9tgX