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Many people are unaware of the role this type of healthcare plays in their everyday lives. Join us as we explore the impact of community health on your neighborhood—and what you can do to improve it.
Community health refers to non-treatment based health services that are delivered outside hospitals and clinics. Community health is a subset of public health that is taught to and practiced by clinicians as part of their normal duties.
In this commentary, we review definition frameworks for community health and examine factors having core relevance to shaping the meaning of this term and growing field.
Community health refers to non-clinical approaches for improving health, preventing disease and reducing health disparities through addressing social, behavioral, environmental, economic and medical determinants of health in a geographically defined population.
In this commentary, we review definition frameworks for community health and examine factors having core relevance to shaping the meaning of this term and growing field.
What Is Community Health? Community health is the collective well-being of community members. In addition to living in the same neighborhood or region, some populations may share health characteristics, ethnicities, and socioeconomic conditions.
Community health systems are essential for bringing critical services to the hardest-to-reach children. At the heart of these systems, community health workers are building trust and helping families make informed decisions about their health and well-being.
According to the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion’s Healthy People 2030 initiative, the health of a community directly affects the quality of life of its members. In fact, community health has been found to impact educational achievement, crime rates, life expectancy, and more.
The term community health (and community health promotion) has also been used to refer to the local, collaborative efforts of the public and private sectors in the prevention and treatment of disease.
Community health focuses on the overall health and well-being of a specific community. This approach to healthcare recognizes that health is not just the absence of disease but a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.