M2.3: Elements of a Healthy Community

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Ayen B.

Cards (13)

  • ELEMENTS OF A HEALTHY COMMUNITY
    • Access to health care and coverage
    • Community safety
    • Affordable quality housing
    • Economic opportunity
    • Educational opportunity
    • Food access
    • Environmental quality
    • Healthy community design
    • Parks and recreational opportunities
    • Transportation options
    • Social and cultural cohesion
    • Social justice
  • ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE & COVERAGE
    ● Affordable, accessible and high-quality care
    ● Community Paramedicine/care-coordination
    ● Health Literacy
    ● Access to behavioural health service
    ● Health Impacts:
    ○ Disease prevention, mental health
  • COMMUNITY SAFETY
    ● Safe communities, free of crime and violence
    ● Diversion programs (rehabilitations) available instead of incarceration (prisonment)
    ● Promoting built environments that “feel safe”
    ● Health Impacts:
    ○ Mental Health, injury prevention, physical activity
  • AFFORDABLE QUALITY HOUSING
    ● Affordable, high quality, socially integrated housing
    ● Housing near public transportation if needed
    ● Ways to avoid displacement as older neighborhoods are revitalized
    ● Promoting housing development and design that encourages social interaction
    ● Health Impacts:
    ○ Economic stability, disease prevention, air quality, mental health, exposure to extreme climate, exposure to lead, early brain development, injury prevention
  • ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
    ● Access to capital for entrepreneurship
    ● Job training and mentorship/accelerator space
    ● Access to affordable and diverse commercial space
    ● A culture of local talent development
    ● Living wages in the community
    ● Health Impacts:
    ○ Economic stability, disease prevention, air quality, mental health, exposure to extreme climate, exposure to lead, early brain
  • EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
    ● Opportunities for high quality and accessible education
    ● Opportunities for developmentally-appropriate and affordable childcare
    ● Access to a variety of post-secondary opportunities
    ● Health Impacts:
    ○ Healthier students tend to have greater educational achievement
  • FOOD ACCESS
    ● Affordable, accessible and nutritious foods
    ● Promoting a variety of food access opportunities
    ● Health Impacts:
    ○ Nutrition, obesity, disease prevention, mental health, early brain development
  • ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
    ● Clean air and waterways
    ● Healthy and clean soils
    ● Water supply protection and water security
    ● Tobacco and smoke-free spaces
    ● Minimized toxics, greenhouse gas emissions and waste
    ● Affordable and sustainable energy-use
    ● Health Impacts:
    ○ Asthma and other respiratory diseases, disease prevention, early brain development
  • PARKS AND RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
    ● Access to affordable and safe opportunities for physical activity
    ● Joint use opportunities with schools, libraries and community centers
    ● Health Impacts:
    ○ Physical activity, disease prevention, mental health, early brain development, air quality
  • HEALTHY COMMUNITY DESIGN
    ● Walkability and places for multi-modal transport
    ● Transit oriented developments
    ● Access to cool and shaded spaces
    ● Environments free of excessive noise
    ● Access to green and open spaces, including healthy tree canopy and agricultural lands
    ● Health Impacts:
    ○ Economic stability, mental health, physical activity, air quality, injury prevention, obesity, heat related illness.
  • TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS
    ● Safe, sustainable, accessible and affordable transportation options
    ● Promoting built environments that encourage walking, biking and taking transit
    ● Health Impacts:
    ○ Economic stability, disease prevention, air quality, mental health, exposure to extreme climate, exposure to lead, early brain
  • SOCIAL AND CULTURAL COHESION
    ● Opportunities for engagement with arts, music and culture
    ● Robust social and civic engagement
    ● Supportive relationships, families, homes and neighborhoods
    ● Community empowerment that can lead to systems change
    ● Health Impacts:
    ○ Economic stability, mental health, public safety
  • SOCIAL JUSTICE
    ● Addresses historical trauma and structural racism
    ● Resolves the social and physical differences adversely affecting socially disadvantaged groups
    ● Pursues fair distribution of resources
    ● Health Impacts:
    ○ Live longer, physical and mental health, economic stability, intact families, resiliency, public safety