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Faith Community Health: Integrating Faith and Health for …

WEBBaylor Scott & White Health’s Faith Community Health program has been documented to better identify, analyze the needs, manage, and serve chronically ill and …

Actived: 9 days ago

URL: https://stories.communitycommons.org/2018/12/04/faith-community-health-integrating-faith-and-health-for-improved-quality-of-life/

Hi-5: Health Impact in 5 Years

WEBAchieving lasting impact on health outcomes requires a focus not just on patient care, but on community wide-approaches aimed at improving population …

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500 Cities Project: Local Data for Better Health

WEBThe 500 Cities Project is a collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC …

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Incorporating Health into Physical Needs Assessments

WEBThis article was written by Elizabeth Zeldin and Emily Blank. It was originally published on the Building Healthy Places blog on June 27, 2017.. In May, the New York …

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Maps as a Catalyst for Change

WEBNPR recently featured a story about a physician and a sheriff in Gainesville, Florida that used maps to improve health in a relatively forgotten area of their city.. Dr. …

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ExploreMoHealth: An Example of How One State is Taking Health …

WEBData is the key to diagnosing and addressing some of our region’s most pressing health issues, and by making robust and up-to-date information available to …

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Clinics Without Walls Inspire a New Model

WEBBy Leslie Mikkelsen and Rob Waters of Prevention Institute. Celebrating 25 years of the Healthy Communities Movement in partnership with the National Civic …

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A Movement for Healthier and Happier Lives

WEBCommon reasons for not walking cited in the survey, sponsored by the Kaiser Permanente health care system, were:. My neighborhood is not very walkable (40 …

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Health & Equity in General Plans: California’s Giant Step

WEBWe believe in the power of storytelling and the importance of investing in the future by sharing those stories – whether they are stories of successful community …

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Health + Transportation

WEBBy Robert S. Ogilvie, Vice President for Strategic Engagement at ChangeLab Solutions. In 2010, The Cascade Land Conservancy (which now goes by …

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CHNA and CHA Tools: Community Assessment Starts Here

WEBCHNA and CHA Tools: Community Assessment Starts Here. March 4, 2019. Health needs assessment is a systematic process for determining the health needs of a …

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Live Well Boone County

WEBIn early 2013, the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services embarked on a comprehensive process to identify the health needs of the …

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Community Leaders are Everywhere

WEBCommunity Leaders are Everywhere. April 16, 2014. GO! Austin/¡VAMOS! Austin and one man’s mission to work himself out of a job. by Aliya Hussaini, MD, MSc, …

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Two Nonprofit Tools for Policy Change

WEBScarce health-improvement dollars mean communities have to choose where to focus efforts. These online tools help with decision making.

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The Gift of Every Body Walking

WEBHalvorson states in the video that women who walk have a remarkable 43% reduction in the risk of stroke. Use this Community Commons Starter Map on stroke …

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Growing Well Connected Communities

WEBMore than two years ago, leaders across America’s Cooperative Extension System (CES) and National 4-H Council (4-H) began imagining how they could expand …

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23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our

WEBA Doctor-Professor answers the old question “What is the single best thing we can do for our health” in a completely new way. Dr. Mike Evans is founder of th…

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Obesity Prevention Starts Early in Ohio

WEBUpdate February 2019: This program is no longer active but information here can be still be valuable. In this five part series, Community Commons highlights the …

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Vital Conditions for Community Wellbeing

WEBFor the past six months the Institute for People, Place, and Possibility (IP3), the organization that stewards Community Commons, has furiously worked behind the …

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Why We Need to Invest—and Reinvest—in Prevention

WEBBy Larry Cohen, Executive Director of Prevention Institute, and Anthony Iton, Senior Vice President of The California Endowment.. Today the Institute Of Medicine …

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