What We Do...

We use 3 main strategies to work toward health equity throughout Wisconsin:

1.  Improve understanding of how socioeconomic conditions affect people’s health:  A person’s socioeconomic status – income, education, race – strongly affects his or her chances of being healthy, by directly affecting their body and by influencing whether they eat healthy foods, engage in risky behaviors, or receive regular medical care.


2.  Support changes in public policy to improve the health of everyone in our community: Improving policies in multiple areas – education, employment, and other social and economic factors that strongly influence health – will improve people’s chances of being healthy.




3.  Build civic capacity to address social determinants of health: Strengthen community capacity to advocate for socioeconomic policies and programs that affect their health will create healthier, more cohesive communities.

Expertise we can offer you:

• Customized, interactive training and education on health equity, social determinants of health, and/or health impact assessment
• Messaging assistance to agencies interested in communicating ideas of health equity to policy-makers and other stakeholders

Expertise we can offer you:

• Design and implementation of advocacy strategies to address policies most likely to result in improvements in social determinants of health
• Design and technical assistance for conducting Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) of policies and/or programs
• Develop policy positions based on health impact of public policy

Expertise we can offer you:

• Incorporate social and economic factors into public health initiatives and vice versa
• Design evaluation for programs which focus on social and economic factors that influence health
• Support grant writing activities focused on improving social and economic factors
• Provide other technical assistance based on organizational needs

If you are interested in WCHE expertise please contact us for more information