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Healing trauma for better health
Join us as we explore how Indigenous groups are taking steps to heal generations of collective trauma resulting from federal policies that called for the destruction of their cultural identities.
Health & Wealth: Using Data to Address Income Inequality
Poverty and financial insecurity can have profound negative effects on mental and physical health outcomes.
Health factors, life expectancy often go hand-in-hand
New life expectancy maps recently released by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Center on Society and Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) show us that babies born only a few miles apart face vastly different chances of living a long and healthy life. A Kentucky map...
Health Starts Where You Live, Learn, Work and Play
Leading a healthy lifestyle is easier if you live in a community that has access to healthy foods, safe and accessible bike paths and sidewalks, a good education system, a strong economy, supportive relationships and networks, and quality health care. Unfortunately, there are location-based disparities throughout the nation and many people live in communities where leading a healthy lifestyle is difficult.
Healthy Community Design Webinar
Every time we step out our doors, our health is affected by the physical design of our community. Healthy community design can help improve the quality of life in every community -- giving everyone a variety of healthy, available, accessible, and affordable options to live, learn, work and play.
Healthy Community Design Webinar
Every time we step out our doors, our health is affected by the physical design of our community. Healthy community design can help improve the quality of life in every community, giving everyone a variety of healthy, available, accessible, and affordable options to live, learn, work and play.
On Tuesday, October 4, 2011 from 2:00 - 3:00 pm CDT, Arthur Wendel, M.D., team lead for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Healthy Community Design Initiative (www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces), will discuss:
Honoring seven new Culture of Health Prize communities
Each year, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation honors and elevates U.S. communities that are making great strides in their journey to better health and well-being. On October 19, 2016, RWJF honored seven communities who won this year’s RWJF Culture of Health Prize at a National Celebration and Learning Event at its...
Housing and Health - What’s the Connection and What Can You Do About It?
In this webinar we will explore why housing matters to our health and what our Rankings data tells us about housing in your community. We’ll also explore some of the strategies from What Works for Health that communities can use to improve housing. Then we’ll hear from Arthur Chaput from NeighborWorks Umpqua about how he and others led an exciting approach to improving housing and...