Over a decade of building community health through...
- Place-based community health efforts
- Policy, systems and environmental changes
- Scaling change through partnerships & networks
- Leveraging our assets to drive total health
- Clinic-to-community integration
- Building the capacity of communities
60+ place-based collaboratives
Reaching 715,000 community residents including 209,000 school-aged kids, surrounding them with healthier options.
- 730 strategies have been implemented in our communities
- 69 percent of strategies show evidence of healthy behavior change
Building community health
- School nutrition policies and physical education standards
- Parks and playgrounds
- Safe routes to school and complete streets
- Breastfeeding support
- Resident mobilization and youth engagement
- BMI screening and counseling
- Farmers markets and community gardens
- Heathy food retail
- Physician advocates
- Worksite wellness policies and promotion
Scaling our impact
Healthy Eating, Active Living Cities Campaign
2,400+ elected officials engaged, supporting the adoption of 950 policies in 337 cities reaching 20 million people.
Making healthy changes in:
- land use
- physical activity
- nutrition
- employee wellness
Leading meaningful changes in:
- healthy food
- physical activity
- school employee wellness
- resilient school environments
Partnering with schools to create healthier school environments in more than 350 schools and 115 school districts across Kaiser Permanente service areas.
30+ peer-reviewed publications
Pioneering the concept of REACH (number of lives touched) x STRENGTH (impact on each person touched) = DOSE as a way to design and evaluate strategies for improving community health.
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