Applying a Health Lens to Decision Making in Non-Health Sectors: Workshop Summary by Theresa Wizemann

Author:Theresa Wizemann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2014-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

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Working Across Sectors to Improve Health

In the third panel session, speakers discussed strategies and tools for effective intersectoral collaboration and decision making. Aaron Wernham, Director of the Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, provided further support for health impact assessments (HIAs) as a practical tool to facilitate health-informed public policy. Loel Solomon, Vice President for Community Health at Kaiser Permanente, described his organization’s conduct of community health needs assessments, and discussed examples of cross-sector collaboration at the community level to address the needs identified. Linda Rudolph, Co-Director of the Center for Climate Change and Health at the Public Health Institute, and Connie Mitchell, Chief of the Policy Unit in the Office of Health Equity at the California Department of Public Health, together described lessons learned from California’s Health in All Policies Task Force. Following the presentations, an open discussion was moderated by Phyllis Meadows, Senior Fellow at The Kresge Foundation.

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