APACC DC Health Presentation
The District of Columbia Department of Health promotes health, wellness and equity across the District, and protects the safety of residents, visitors and those doing business in our nation’s capital.
Climate Change and Children’s Health: Building a Healthy Future for Every Child
“The warming of our planet matters to every child. Driven by fossil fuel-generated greenhouse gas emissions, climate conditions stable since the founding of modern pediatrics in the mid-nineteenth century have shifted, and old certainties are falling away.”
Health Equity Working Group
Equity is the absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically or by other dimensions of inequality.
District of Columbia Health Equity Report
DC’s Health Equity Report highlights the health and wellbeing of residents and acts as a guide for engaging community members with the goal of implementing positive change.