Health and Equity Framework

Milwaukee County's Health & Equity Framework explains how the community can become healthier and fairer for everyone. The framework shows how the decisions that government leaders make affect where people live, work, and play, which then impacts how healthy people are.

Milwaukee County uses this framework to guide our work by changing unfair policies and practices, because these unfair policies create differences in health between different groups of people. By doing this, it moves Milwaukee County toward the vision of being the healthiest county in Wisconsin. The goal is to address problems at their source rather than just treating the effects.

Milwaukee County's approach focuses on addressing the root causes of racial inequities: the power structures, policies and practices of our institution.