The Commission was formed to investigate why Americans aren’t as healthy as they could be and to look outside the health care system for ways to improve health for all.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
With better alignment of job training strategies and disease prevention or health promotion programs, new jobs with the potential to simultaneously improve population health, lower the cost of health care and reduce unemployment could be created and filled.
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.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's President and CEO, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey introduces a supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that makes public the research of the Commission to Build a Healthier America.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This paper is an adapted version of the inaugural report presented to the Commission to Build a Healthier America the authors present statistical evidence supporting social health strategies, including that 30 percent of poor Americans report poor or fair health.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Improving the health of children from low-income families is the top recommended priority of the Commission to Build a Healthier America. This article reviews child health and development research from the past 20 years.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A review of findings that support a citizen-centered approach to improving health behaviors argues that lasting change in individuals' health behaviors requires collaboration among communities' clinical, business, educational, civic and governmental entities.