Community Health Innovation

Proposed Healthy People 2020 Objectives Provide a Framework for Action Planning

The proposed Healthy People 2010 objectives provide a starting point for communities interested in setting targets for the next 10 years.

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CDC Offers Resources for Designing and Building Healthy Places

The way we design and build our communities can affect our physical and mental health. Healthy community design integrates evidence-based health strategies into community planning, transportation, and land-use decisions.

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Commission to Build a Healthier America Issues Recommendations

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) formed the Commission to Build a Healthier America to investigate why Americans aren’t as healthy as they could be and to look outside the health care system for ways to improve health for all. From February 2008 to December 2009, the Commission studied prevention, wellness and the broader factors that influence good health – conducting site visits, hearing testimony from experts, and issuing 10 recommendations to dramatically improve health for all Americans.

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CDC's Healthy Communities Program Offers Capacity Building Supports

CDC and its partners are working together to create healthy, thriving communities across the United States by reducing chronic diseases and attaining health equity through training, mentorship, dissemination of effective models, and investments in communities that jump-start local change.

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A Framework for Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health

How are we doing — and how can we do better? These are perhaps the most basic questions a community can ask regarding the health of its residents. Yet communities have not been given the necessary tools to answer these questions with validated, consistent measures, evidence-based policies and practices, and incentives for improvement.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, have developed a framework for measuring community health and mobilizing community action to address community health issues.  One component of this framework is a set of national County Health Rankings which provide a defined set of health indicators for almost every city and county in the country.  This report from the CDC provides and excellent framework for planning or evaluating a community health improvement initiative.

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