Brief Title and Link | Description of Brief |
Rural North Roundtable Takeaways - 2023 Statewide Equity Convening | In September 2023, The California Department of Public Health, Office of Health Equity hosted a statewide convening on the topic of equity. During this convening, California Center for Rural Policy hosted a regional roundtable discussion with key equity staff from the Rural North. This brief is a high-level summary of this discussion. |
California's Rural North: Exploring the Roots of Health Disparities | A brief summarizing the takeaways from CCRP's Report California's Rural North: Exploring the Roots of Health Disparities. This brief covers the region's most significant health risks found in smoking, substance use, and mental well-being. |
California's Rural North: Public Health Workforce Recruitment and Retention | Public health workforce challenges persisting over the past two decades continue to be prevalent in the field today. This brief aims to identify the root causes of public health workforce attrition and provide evidence-based strategies to address workforce loss in rural areas. |
California's Rural North: Health Equity Principles Guiding Data Practices | Embedding health equity into data practices is empirically supported as a method of addressing the data challenges that rural regions face. This brief aims to identify the challenges that exist around data processes in the Rural North, outline an empiricially supported approach to developing health equity performance measures, and give a brief snapshot of state and federal efforts to promote health equity through data quallity measurements. |
California's Rural North: Trauma-Informed Retention Strategies | Two years after the onset of the pandemic, close to a third of public health workers were considering leaving their job, citing stress and burnout as top causes. The purpose of this brief is to elevate burnout and moral injury as primary drivers of retention challenges in the public health sector, particularly in the post-pandemic context. This brief also provides best practice strategies that public health departments can leverage to begin improving the well-being of their workforce, and subsequently their retention levels. |
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