Module 3: Data for Health Justice
Daniel Akinola-Odusola
Centric Lab
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In this lesson, Daniel from the Centric Lab team will review and summarize the ways you can use data to tell the story of your community health for different purposes and audiences.
Key Learnings: Our Thoughts
Decide if you're trying to create understanding or inform a decision in your more immediate plans. You can then determine the role data can play in achieving that goal.
The Macro Environmental Data for Health Justice report gives an additional framework on where to focus your efforts between: Setting the context for data, supporting data collection, or communicating the data to the righ audience. You can partner with others to perform different parts of this framework.
Use already available data to generate new questions.
Understand the "language" of the intended audience. Communicating and visualising data is dependent on who you are speaking to.
Ethics are not static but Set some principles and ethics about what should be used as data
Never let quantitative data erase qualitative data or lived experience. Don’t be afraid to experiment mixing types of data visualisations under the same campaign.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) can be a great place to start in secondary data.
What in this lesson stood out for you?
Debate Questions
These questions are framed to help you apply your own experience and perspectives to points raised in this lesson.
What sort of decisions would you want to use data to influence?
Are there sources that you believe should be producing data to support your advocacy?
Do you feel confident in creating strategy around the use of data to represent your community or environment?
How To…
Develop strategy and principles when using data for health justice
These tools well help you proactively determine how data from different sources can support how you evidence injustice and create justice pathways:
Macro Environmental Data for Health Justice report
This report walks through a loosely structured set of steps to understand how to take phenomena at a larger societal level and create meaningful environmental data for health justice.
Check out the Macro Environmental Data for Health Justice report
Environmental Data for Health Justice Working Board
This board supports both how these people create data from a grassroots level that supports their current campaigns, and how they hold other more macro stakeholders accountable for the way they create and use data related to health injustices.
Check out the Environmental Data for Health Justice Working Board
Office for National Statistics (ONS )
The main responsibilities of the ONS are collecting, analysing and disseminating statistics about the UK's economy, society and population.
Find Open Data (Data.gov.uk)
This resource can help you find data published by central government, local authorities and public bodies to help you build products and services, or in this case, support advocacy.
You are done with Module 3!
Next Lesson:
Module 4 Lesson 1