Office of Health Equity

Goal: Improving opportunities for health and achieving health equity in the District.

Strategy Description: Build Multi-Sector Collaborations and Promote Health in All Policies; Leverage Community-Based Participatory Research; and Demonstrate Health Equity Practice Change.

Level of Change: Systems

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Data Category Tag: Equity and Justice

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Estimated Ease of Implementation: Hard

Estimated Cost of Implementation: Low

Potential Community Benefit: Very High

Research: Evidence shows that overall, clinical care drives only 20% of population health outcomes, with the remaining 80% generated by non-clinical determinants.