Health Equity Lens Tool - Oakland County Health Division
A ready-to-use guide to evaluate your programs, policies, and decisions through an equity lens.
Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care.
This guide will help employees apply a health equity lens to their work and will continue to be transformed according to the needs of the Oakland County Health Division (OCHD).
The Health Equity Lens Guide is a process for analyzing or diagnosing the impact of the design and implementation of a program/policy on under-served and/or marginalized individuals and groups, and to identify and potentially eliminate barriers.
