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4 Get Ready for Equity
4 Get Ready for Equity
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CommonHealth Action aligns people, strategies, and resources to generate solutions to health and policy challenges, Burke said.2 CommonHealth Action approaches its work from the perspective of the social determinants of health and looks at health as a production of society. The staff of C ommonHealth Action work with clients across sectors and disciplines in different communities, so they ensure that they approach projects in a language that is relevant and meaningful to the people they work with.
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Commitment to ongoing learning: Expansion of knowledge, skills, and under standing through engagement in a culture of inquiry and continuous learning. equity lens is what CommonHealth Action calls a "perspective transformation," which is, to paraphrase Mezirow: the process of becoming critically aware of how and why our assump tions have come to constrain the way we perceive, understand, and feel about our world; changing these structures of habitual expectation to make possible a more inclusive and integrating perspective; and, finally, making choices or otherwise acting upon these new understandings.
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If runners line up shoulder to shoulder, there is an unfair advantage to the person in the inside lane. It does not matter how hard they trained or how hard they worked, it may not even matter how fast they run because the difference is so great that the runners in the outer lane can never catch up.
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EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION CommonHealth Action training programs teach equity competencies through a process that involves equity, diversity, and inclusion. Burke explained that CommonHealth Action defines diversity as a collective mixture of differences and similarities that includes individual and organizational characteristics, values, beliefs, experiences, backgrounds, and behaviors.
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It does this extensive preparation in order to avoid leaving an organization or community in a worse condition than it was before the process of change started. Burke shared an example of a training CommonHealth Action conducted in Azle, Texas.
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Citing data from a McKinsey analysis on "diversity's dividend" in the report Why Diversity Matters, she noted that • Companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity are 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians. • Companies in the top quartile for gender diversity are 15 percent more likely to have financial returns above their respective national industry medians.3 Burke described how CommonHealth Action advised a Fortune 150 company on global health and well-being.
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Businesses are starting to look at health more broadly, as can be seen in the future column of Table 4-1, by focusing on factors that go beyond the worksite, such as promoting the conditions that improve overall health and well-being, supporting equitable public policies and a healthier food environment, and understanding that health is a form of compensation. For example, if employees are being encouraged to eat healthier, in order to do that throughout the day, they will need access to healthier foods within their community (IOM, 2015, 2016)
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