Health Impact Assessment
May 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This issue brief examines how health impact assessments can promote health in all policies.
Community Outreach/Community Health Workers
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Voices for Change
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: Voices for Change engages participants through Photovoice (photography and prose), providing opportunities for individual and group data gathering, reflection, dialogue and social action regarding neighborhood assets and issues.
How the Health and Community Development Sectors are Combining Forces to Improve Health and Well-Being
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The root causes of poor health experienced by many who live in low-income neighborhoods are well documented, but often go beyond the scope of the health care delivery system. Growing partnerships between the health and community development sectors are forming to address these challenges.
Community Development Efforts Offer a Major Opportunity to Advance Americans' Health
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Community development and public health are two forces that often have the same goals. By enhancing the opportunities for good health in the places where we live, learn, work, play and worship, community development initiatives can be important drivers of improved health.
Partnerships Among Community Development, Public Health, and Health Care Could Improve the Well-Being of Low-Income People
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The community development "industry" draws on public subsidies and other financing to transform impoverished neighborhoods into better-functioning communities. There is a strong potential for cross-sector collaborations to reduce health disparities and slow the growth of health care spending, while improving economic and social well-being in America's most disadvantaged communities.
Despite Obstacles, Considerable Potential Exists for More Robust Federal Policy on Community Development and Health
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the Obama administration's urban policy create an opportunity to link community development with health in new and powerful ways.
Breaking Through on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities
December 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
An Approach to Message Translation
Healthy Communities
November 7, 2011 | Presentation Material
Healthy Communities Conference: On Monday, November 7, RWJF, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and The Pew Charitable Trusts will host the 2nd National Healthy Communities conference in Washington, DC. The all-day event will include an update on progress, with panels on systemic changes needed in policy, data and financing.
Developing Healthy Communities
November 3, 2011 | Story
A partnership between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Federal Reserve System explores how the community development and health sectors can work together to improve health and well-being.
Health Affairs November Issue Focuses on "Linking Community Development and Health"
November 1, 2011 | Story
Health Affairs issue builds on collaboration between the RWJF and the Federal Reserve System to pursue innovative new ideas and public and private partnerships.