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The objective of this community discussion series is to engage community residents in a dialogue about elements of the social and community environment that can be addressed to enhance quality of life and improve health behaviors and outcomes.

Prevention Institute and Tony Iton, MD, prepared this report for the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Health Disparities to identify policy solutions at the community, regional, and state level to reduce inequities in health and safety.

Summarizes a Grantmakers in Health convening that discussed creating a public will to address health disparities.

Addresses inequities in health based on a presentation given by Prevention Institute Program Director, Manal Aboelata.

This report focuses on indicators associated with community factors and how indicator reports and report cards can support community efforts to improve health.

This article explores social determinants of health in the broad context in which communities operate.

Commissioned by the Disparity Reducing Advantages Project (DRA) and the Institute for Alternative Futures, The Imperative of Reducing Health Disparities through Prevention - Challenges Implications and Opportunities (October 2006) makes the connection between factors in the environment and their impact on health. Also commissioned by the DRA, Laying the Groundwork for a Movement to Reduce Health Disparities (April 2007) addressed health disparities and what we can learn from successful social movements.