Building communities that create health.
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Summary
The authors argue that this approach to public health fails to meet the goal of public health-to improve health for all--and that the key to health improvement is to create a social context in which healthy choices are the norm.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2000-03-01
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 11
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W16477073
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:25852246
Keywords
Public health, Social determinants of health, Health policy, Psychological intervention, Context (archaeology)
References
- Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets
- Actual causes of death in the United States.
- Social capital and self-rated health: a contextual analysis.
- Creating the building blocks for health.
- Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Conceptual Framework and Community Experience
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- Promising Strategies for Obesity Prevention and Treatment Within American Indian Communities
- Healthy communities: a natural ally for community-oriented primary care.
- The Voice of the Public in Public Health Policy and Planning: the Role of Public Judgment
- Placing well‐being and participation within processes of urban regeneration
- Lay perceptions of neighbourhood health.
- Broadening participation in community problem solving: A multidisciplinary model to support collaborative practice and research
- Participatory Action Research for Environmental Health: Encountering Freire in the Urban Barrio
- Bringing Health Policy Issues Front and Center in the Community: Expanding the Role of Community Health Coalitions
- "THEY DON'T TRUST US; WE'RE JUST KIDS." VIEWS ABOUT COMMUNITY FROM PREDOMINANTLY FEMALE INNER CITY YOUTH
- Neighborhood and individual factors in activity in older adults: results from the neighborhood and senior health study.
- HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: A NATURAL ALLY FOR COMMUNITY- ORIENTED PRIMARY CARE
- Exploring the socio-environmental context in the prevalence and management of asthma at Scottish General Practices
- Territorial and Trans-Territorial Community-Institutional Partnerships to Build Healthier Communities in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned from a Dominican Republic Low-Resource Community
- Conceptions of Community: Past and Present
- Power to Advocate for Health
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