This report by The Food Trust and The Reinvestment Fund is intended to be a resource for advocates at public health and community and economic development organizations working to increase the availability of nutritious foods and revitalize their neighborhoods.
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Alterations in individual behaviors alone are not sufficient to change the course of the childhood obesity epidemic. Instead, environmental factors - such as the role of school design - must be engaged at a population scale to promote healthy behaviors.
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Healthy People, by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.
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Despite leading the world on medical care spending, Americans have worse health and shorter lives than people in other affluent nations. This report shows dramatic differences in health among Americans from different income, education, and racial or ethnic groups.
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Read recommendations by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America on how we should invest in the health of our nation.
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Collaboration between the health and community development sectors has gained increased attention as a means of accelerating progress to improve community health. This article offers an empirical perspective on the general status of such collaboration based on results from a national survey of practitioners in the community development and health fields.
Read MoreExamining racial/ethnic inequity in the children across levels of neighborhood opportunity.
Read MorePay for success can save health care costs, improve patient outcomes and create a market that values health, not just health care.
Read MoreThis Health Impact Assessment examines the potential health impacts that could result from investments made by the Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund.
Read MoreWhat are some valuable lessons learned about investing in healthy community change? Active Living By Design (ALBD) developed this resource for funders as a way of exploring that question.
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Active Living By Design (ALBD) created lessons, principles and best practices for leaders of local, healthy community partnerships.
Read MoreMatt Trowbridge, Senior Research Fellow at the US Green Building Council, discusses the importance of the drive to make healthy places investable.
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A ZIP code is 5 numbers meant to give mail to people—not indicate how long they live. But all too often, that's exactly what a ZIP code does.
Read MoreThe annual County Health Rankings measure vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of air and water, income, and teen births in nearly every county in America.
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While it’s known that education leads to better jobs and higher incomes, research also shows that better-educated individuals live longer, healthier lives than those with less education, and their children are more likely to thrive.
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