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Place Matters: Bringing Community Development and Health Leaders Together
This tool (from RWJF) is an interview with David Williams articulating the importance of community development and health working together. It can be found in the Community Development guide under...
Policy Advocacy Choice Tool
This tool (from CHR&R) is a step-by-step process to help groups select the policy or systems change that will have the greatest likelihood of successful adoption in their communities. Use it along with the Policy Advocacy Choice Worksheet.
Poor Mental Health Days
Average number of mentally unhealthy days reported in past 30 days (age-adjusted).Poor or Fair Health
Percentage of adults reporting fair or poor health (age-adjusted).Poor Physical Health Days
Average number of physically unhealthy days reported in past 30 days (age-adjusted).Population*
Resident population.Population Health and Well-being
Population health and well-being is something we create as a society, not something an individual can attain in a clinic or be responsible for alone. Health is more than being free from disease and pain; health is the ability to thrive. Well-being covers both quality of life and the ability of people and communities to contribute to the world. Population health involves optimal physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being.Possible Community Health Indicators
This tool (from Community Tool Box) describes what community needs and resources are and why, when and how to identify them. It includes a variety of indicators (e.g., children in poverty, unemployment rate), what they are an indicator of (e.g., social environment, prosperity), and potential sources of data (e.g., Census, state employment office).
Power
Power is the ability to achieve a purpose and to effect change. People can build community power when they organize and act together to set agendas, shift public discourse, influence who makes decisions and cultivate relationships with decision makers. Societal rules and how they are created and maintained by those with power are referred to as the structural determinants of health.Power Prism Campaign Planning Tool
This tool (from M+R ) will help you develop goals, objectives and action planning for advocacy campaigns. It can be found in Act on What's Important under Develop a strategy to take...