JPHMP Direct December 21, 2021
Community Resilience as a framework for Public Health 3.0 to address structural racism, foster equity, and improve population health.
The article, “Community Resilience: A Dynamic Model for Public Health 3.0” presents an innovative model for Chief Health Strategists to measure and define place-based community resilience. The paper describes methods for measuring equity and addressing structural racism as a public health strategy to improve community health.
Convening multiple sectors, the CHS can use this dynamic model to systematically identify, measure and address inequities that result in and contribute to the Pair of ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences in the context of Adverse Community Environments.
Many of the nation’s place-based and race-based health disparities and adverse community environments are driven by structural racism....