Reducing Health Disparities Initiative

New Podcast: Work Needs to Be Done to Reduce Health Disparities
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Community Health Indicators for Contra Costa County
RHD shares Change Principles (48k PDF, 1p.)

Overview of Five-Year Plan for Reducing Health and Health Care Disparities 2007-2012 (84k PDF, 2pp.)
Year-One Plan for Reducing Health and Health Care Disparities July 2007 - June 2008 (63k PDF, 2pp.)
Five-Year Plan for Reducing Health and Health Care Disparities 2007-2012 (326k PDF, 8pp.)

National Center for Cultural Competence Brief on Promising Practices at CCHS (380k PDF, 3 pp.)

CCHS has a department-wide goal to reduce health disparities by addressing issues of diversity and linguistic and cultural competence. Read more in our progress report (808k PDF, 6pp.).

This vision can only be achieved through a multi-year, multi-strategy commitment to reduce health disparities in specific health conditions over time. The Health Director and Division Directors are committed to implementing three broad objectives as initial steps in reducing health disparities among the people serviced by Health Services programs.

The objectives are:

Improve linguistic access.
Implement training and related activities on diversity and cultural and linguistic access competence that will foster broad organizational growth and change.
further develop an organizational climate that values patient, client, customer and employee diversity and addresses health disparities.

Contact Us:

Connie James
Reducing Health Disparities Initiative Leader
50 Douglas Drive, Suite 310
Martinez, CA 94553
925-957-5421
cjames@hsd.cccounty.us

Content provided by the Reducing Health Disparities Initiative of Contra Costa Public Health Division.