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The 10 Essential Public Health Services (EPHS) provide a framework for public health to protect and promote the health of all people in all communities. [3] In recognition of public health's commitment to provide a fair and just opportunity for everyone to achieve optimal health and well-being, the framework now contains an equity statement, centers equity in the graphic, and incorporates ...
Healthy community design is planning and designing communities that make it easier for people to live healthy lives. [1] Healthy community design offers important benefits: [ citation needed ] Decreases dependence on the automobile by building homes, businesses, schools, churches and parks closer to each other so that people can more easily ...
The 1978 World Health Organization (WHO) declaration at Alma-Ata was the first formal acknowledgment of the importance of intersectoral action for health. [5] The spirit of Alma-Ata was carried forward in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (adopted in Ottawa in 1986), which discussed "healthy public policies" as a key area for health promotion.
Healthy city is a term used in public health and urban design to stress the impact of policy on human health. It is a municipality that continually improves on a physical and a social level until environmental and pathological conditions are reached establishing an acceptable morbidity rate for the population. [ 1 ]
Re-orienting health care services toward prevention of illness and promotion of health; The basic strategies for health promotion were prioritized as: [citation needed] Advocate: Health is a resource for social and developmental means, thus the dimensions that affect these factors must be changed to encourage health.
Additionally, within the United States, Healthy People 2030 [9] is an objective-driven framework which can guide public health practitioners and healthcare providers on how to address social determinants of health at the community level. [10]
Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-of-society approach to effectively organise and strengthen national health systems to bring services for health and wellbeing closer to communities. [ 1 ] Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation ...
The Leadership for Healthy Communities Action Strategies Toolkit was released during Leadership for Healthy Communities' 2009 Childhood Obesity Prevention Summit in Washington, D.C. The toolkit is a collection of policy options and resources designed to help state and local policy-makers prevent childhood obesity by developing healthier ...