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For more than 10 years, the Center for Health Equity and our partners have worked to understand how these systems impact health, and how we can improve them to create a Louisville Metro where all can thrive. This report shows the diversity of people living in Louisville Metro, while highlighting health at all ages and stages of our lives.
14.5% OF RESIDENTS HAVE A DISABILITY
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A person’s identities, whatever they may be, should not predict how long or how well one will live. This requires creating systems and policies where environments, economics, and government work for everyone.
Intimate Partner Violence/Sexual Assault Teen Pregnancy 10 STDs Tobacco Use 0-1 Preterm Birth Infant Mortality Rate N E Low Birth Weight E
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In Louisville, health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be healthy and reach their full human potential.
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Photos courtesy of T Gonzales, Damiya Johnson, Sarah Katherine Davis, Louisville Metro Parks and Recreation, and Louisville Metro Government.
HEALTH OUTCOMES
HEALTH EQUITY REPORT
6.7% FOREIGN BORN RESIDENTS
VARIOUS RACES & ETHNICITIES
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Lead Poisoning Asthma Oral Health
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DIFFERENT SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS
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30-64
Diabetes Heart Disease
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Suicide Homicide Mental Health Drug/Alcohol Use Accidents
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OVER 74 RELIGIONS
MULTIPLE GENDER IDENTITIES
OUR VISION:
A Louisville where every person and every community can enjoy hope, happiness, and wellness. PUBLIC POLICY national, state, local law
COMMUNITY
relationships among organizations
ORGANIZATIONAL organizations, social institutions
INTERPERSONAL family, friends, social networks
INDIVIDUAL
knowledge, attitudes, skills
Acknowledgments:
Our larger report will have detailed evidence-based best practices at multiple levels for how we can make a difference in health for Louisville Metro!
Center for Health Equity For more than a decade, the Center for Health Equity has worked to remove barriers to good health. We know that health is more than the choices you make; health is impacted by the choices you have. In many ways, the choices we make as a community will drive the choices any of us have as individuals. At the Center for Health Equity, we focus on creating policies and changing systems to ensure everyone has the opportunity to make healthier choices. We recognize and value the multiple identities that shape people’s experiences and believe all ages, abilities, sectors, and cultures should be at the table. We use multiple forms of data and know that a responsive, accountable government, working with a powerful community, can change systems. We have the resources to work together to find solutions to these root causes of poor health outcomes and create a Louisville Metro where we all thrive. We invite you to join us in designing a healthier Louisville for all!
This report was created by Center for Health Equity staff: Brandy N. Kelly Pryor, PhD, Rebecca Hollenbach, MPH, CHES, T Gonzales, MSW, Aja Barber, MS, and Lilah Gael, MPA. Special assistance provided by Yu-Ting Chen, MPH, MS, Danielle Waninger, the Kentucky State Data Center and the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness.
CONTACT US: @louequity (502) 574.6616 healthequity@louisvilleky.gov