Good Health Counts: A 21st Century Approach to Health & Community for California

What makes a community healthy? What partners must be engaged and held
accountable for a community's health? What will it take to catalyze a
movement around a new framework for good health in California?

These imperative questions are addressed in, Good Health Counts: A 21st
Century Approach to Health and Community for California. The report,
prepared by Prevention Institute with funding from The California Endowment,
helps make the connection between factors in the environment - including
equitable opportunities, strong social ties, the ability to buy healthy
foods, perceptions of safety to walk or play in the park, and affordable,
quality medical services - and their impact on health. Good Health Counts
synthesizes findings from nearly 100 community report cards and indicator
reports from throughout the country and broadens understanding of all the
elements that contribute to community health.

The report, prepared by Prevention Institute with funding from The
California Endowment, delineates various sectors that make decisions daily
that impact health and should be engaged in improving community conditions.
It will help build capacity among key leaders to take environmental
approaches to improving health and offers a number of tools that can be
adapted based on specific communities' needs to assess and address major
barriers to good health.

The report is available free of cost at:
http://preventioninstitute.org/documents/GoodHealthCounts_Final.pdf.

For more information please contact Janani Srikantharajah at: Janani@preventioninstitute.org or (510) 444-7738.

Prevention Institute is a national non-profit center committed to improving
community health and well being by building momentum for effective primary
prevention. For more information on Prevention Institute, please visit:
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