Health Equity
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Live Healthy Lane believes everyone should have the opportunity to live a healthy life. Inequalities in our social, economic, environmental, and structural systems result in differences in health outcomes, or health inequities, which are systematic, preventable, and unjust. Addressing health inequities requires eliminating barriers to health including poverty, racism, and other forms of discrimination that result in lack of access to health care, safe neighborhoods, quality education, housing, and fair wage employment.
Update on the Lane Equity Coalition
The Lane Equity Coalition (LEC) was born out of our community’s goal of establishing a Regional Health Equity Coalition in 2015. Since its inception, the Lane Equity Coalition (LEC) operated as a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHP) workgroup in Lane County. The role of the LEC has been to engage diverse community voices to promote health equity and work for the reduction/elimination of identified health disparities across the region. In May 2022, Live Healthy Lane conducted a landscape analysis to examine health equity efforts taking place across Lane County, and what community needs the LEC could serve. This analysis revealed new ways that health equity work is taking place in the community, including the community's pursuit of a Regional Health Equity Coalition. As a result of this analysis, the group determined that they would sunset the LEC in its current form. We anticipate that LEC activities and priorities will be incorporated into other health equity efforts in the community moving forward. While it is bittersweet to conclude the LEC as we have known it, we are thrilled to see equity efforts emerge throughout the county that are grounded in community.
We want to acknowledge this group’s stellar work over the last several years:
Thank you to all who have engaged in this important work and served as LEC members and leaders, while also navigating the impacts of the pandemic and changes in our community's needs and resources. Live Healthy Lane remains grateful to Trillium and PacificSource CCOs for their funding and support of the LEC over the years.
To stay informed on local health equity efforts, please join our listserv or contact us for how you can get involved.
We want to acknowledge this group’s stellar work over the last several years:
- Hosting events to inform the community about equity issues and providing the opportunity for networking and collaboration;
- Engaging diverse communities of Lane County to advance authentic and active community engagement;
- Encouraging agencies and organizations in Lane County to adopt equity and inclusion policies and practices, including use of the Equity Decision Making Tool.
Thank you to all who have engaged in this important work and served as LEC members and leaders, while also navigating the impacts of the pandemic and changes in our community's needs and resources. Live Healthy Lane remains grateful to Trillium and PacificSource CCOs for their funding and support of the LEC over the years.
To stay informed on local health equity efforts, please join our listserv or contact us for how you can get involved.
Rural Health Equity Project
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The Rural Health Equity Project is working to strengthen rural partnerships including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other People of Color, with the aim of learning how to build capacity to address health inequities as part of the 2021-25 CHP. The initial focus of the project is in Cottage Grove and Siuslaw upriver communities (including Mapleton, Swisshome, and Deadwood.)
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Health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to "attain his or her full health potential" and no one is "disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.” |
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Live Healthy Lane: Working together to create a caring community where all people can live a healthy life.
Compassion - Equity - Inclusion - Collaboration
Compassion - Equity - Inclusion - Collaboration