Add to ORKGMany public health solutions to chronic diseases involve individual lifestyle choices: eating more healthfully, increasing physical activity, and quitting smoking. This approach neglects barriers in the community environment that make modifying unhealthy behaviors challenging. Addressing environmental barriers is an essential strategy to supporting behavioral changes. Changing community environments that contribute to unhealthy behaviors can improve community health. Community indicator reports can be used to strengthen community environments for optimum health. The reports are comprehensive evaluations of community well-being that reflect community factors that influence health. Prevention Institute studied community indicator reports for ...
With the rapid rise in health care costs, it has become imperative that departments of health servic...
Promoting a “broad view of health ” is an important objective of the healthy cities movement, includ...
Improving the health system can reduce the effects of health disparities, but it can do little to el...
Many public health solutions to chronic diseases involve individual lifestyle choices: eating more h...
Takes a comprehensive look at community health, encompassing both access to quality, culturally comp...
In the decades since chronic illnesses replaced infectious diseases as the leading causes of death, ...
Effective planning and decision-making for improving the health of a community requires good informa...
Over the past century, chronic diseases have emerged as a predominant challenge to public health. A ...
Chronic diseases are among the most commonand costly of all health problems in the United States, bu...
The Community Health Status Indicators Project (CHSI) 2008 provides 16-page reports for the 3141 cou...
Background: Novel1 1This study was performed on behalf of the Community Interventions for Health (CI...
Background Systemic, environmental, and socioeconomic conditions create the context in which commun...
Background Public health faces major challenges to building state and local infrastructure with the ...
Effective planning and decision-making for improving the health of a community requires good informa...
Since the early 1900s, the major causes of illness and death in the United States have changed from ...
With the rapid rise in health care costs, it has become imperative that departments of health servic...
Promoting a “broad view of health ” is an important objective of the healthy cities movement, includ...
Improving the health system can reduce the effects of health disparities, but it can do little to el...
Many public health solutions to chronic diseases involve individual lifestyle choices: eating more h...
Takes a comprehensive look at community health, encompassing both access to quality, culturally comp...
In the decades since chronic illnesses replaced infectious diseases as the leading causes of death, ...
Effective planning and decision-making for improving the health of a community requires good informa...
Over the past century, chronic diseases have emerged as a predominant challenge to public health. A ...
Chronic diseases are among the most commonand costly of all health problems in the United States, bu...
The Community Health Status Indicators Project (CHSI) 2008 provides 16-page reports for the 3141 cou...
Background: Novel1 1This study was performed on behalf of the Community Interventions for Health (CI...
Background Systemic, environmental, and socioeconomic conditions create the context in which commun...
Background Public health faces major challenges to building state and local infrastructure with the ...
Effective planning and decision-making for improving the health of a community requires good informa...
Since the early 1900s, the major causes of illness and death in the United States have changed from ...
With the rapid rise in health care costs, it has become imperative that departments of health servic...
Promoting a “broad view of health ” is an important objective of the healthy cities movement, includ...
Improving the health system can reduce the effects of health disparities, but it can do little to el...