Applying a Health Lens to Business Practices, Policies, and Investments: Workshop Summary by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Health and Medicine: Public Health and Prevention, Health and Medicine: Policy, Reviews and Evaluations
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2016-08-05T00:00:00+00:00

A Place-Based Approach to Health

Terry Allan from the Cuyahoga County Board of Health said we all pay for poor health, and he asked Flores what narrative resonates in making the case for change. Flores explained that The California Endowment takes a place-based approach with the slogan “health happens here,” which signals the recognition that everything that goes on in a community matters to overall health through shared responsibility. This slogan lets people know that they can make health happen in their community, or impede health based on their practices and investments, or lack of those factors. If the community has failures or erupts into violence, all the people who live there suffer. Business is a part of the community, and is a very important piece of the place-based approach. Businesses’ employees are in that place, use the resources in that place, and serve customers in that place. Flores concluded that business should therefore consider that its own interest is being served by the welfare of that place.

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1 Formerly the North Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development.

2 See http://redf.org/who-we-are/our-history (accessed September 15, 2015).

3 See http://redf.org and http://webreprints.djreprints.com/3582030828345.html (accessed July 31, 2015).

4 See http://www.mdcinc.org (accessed July 31, 2015).

5 The goal is to achieve sustainability by relying less on new funds, to use the resources that they have more efficiently, and to prioritize where to reallocate funds. For more information on the five principles of reform, see Made in Durham: Phase 1 Action Plan 2014-2016.http://mdcinc.org/sites/default/files/resources/MID%20Action%20Plan%20Dec2014%20FINAL.pdf (accessed August 17, 2015).

6 For more information see http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/resentencingunder-californias-proposition-47.html (accessed August 17, 2015).

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