In this academic article published in Social Science and Medicine – Population Health, the Build Healthy Places Network explores what common metrics and indicators are used across sectors to measure health.
Read MoreThis literature review summarizes what we currently know from research about the effects of stable and affordable housing. The research is condensed into defensible points – backed by solid supporting evidence – to serve as a resource for understanding and communicating the many impacts of affordable housing.
Read MoreThis report by the New York State Health Foundation outlines which hospitals in New York State and nationally are addressing non-medical determinants of community population health, as well as facilitators of and barriers to this work.
Read MoreThe Community Healthy Living Index (CHLI), developed by the YMCA of the USA, helps a community assess its support for healthy living in the places where people live, work, learn, and play, allowing their community members to lead fuller, healthier, lives.
Read MoreA book from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Urban Institute outlines opportunities and challenges for the strategic use of data to build healthier, stronger communities.
Read MoreExamining racial/ethnic inequity in the children across levels of neighborhood opportunity.
Read MoreThis Health Impact Assessment examines the potential health impacts that could result from investments made by the Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund.
Read MoreMatt Trowbridge, Senior Research Fellow at the US Green Building Council, discusses the importance of the drive to make healthy places investable.
Read MoreThe annual County Health Rankings measure vital health factors, including high school graduation rates, obesity, smoking, unemployment, access to healthy foods, the quality of air and water, income, and teen births in nearly every county in America.
Read MoreHealth impact assessments (HIAs) allow policy-makers to consider how proposed policies that may seem unrelated to health would affect health, and could be used to improve it.
Read MoreWe know that the design and operation of our communities significantly influence our health. But the health impacts of real estate development continue to operate largely as economic externalities: unmeasured, unregulated, and largely unconsidered.
Read MoreThe Network writes in Health Affairs on how measurement can help community development and health practitioners achieve shared goals.
Read MoreThe Health Impact Project is a national initiative designed to promote the use of health impact assessments (HIAs) as a decision-making tool for policymakers.
Read MoreThis report summarizes the development and piloting of the Success Measures Community Stabilization Evaluation Framework, which organizations and local governments can use to measure how their efforts are changing factors essential to strong, vibrant neighborhoods.
Read MoreBy systematically assessing the health risks of development decisions upfront, health impact assessments can prevent costly and harmful mistakes.
Read MoreAuthors used community level data in Chicago to explore local socioeconomic conditions and corresponding health outcomes.
Read MoreSuccess Measures was created by practitioners and funders who wanted to document their impact for the people and communities they serve.
Read MoreA tool, developed by LIIF, that puts a dollar value on the benefits of things like an affordable home, a great school or access to transit.
Read MoreHow can measurement support an adaptive change process in a community system striving to optimize population well-being?
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