Health and Healthy Places. According to the World Health Organization, health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of infirmity.
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The political environment. In a healthy community, all citizens have a say in how and by whom their community is governed, and have easy access to the information necessary to understand political situations and to make informed political decisions. Political decisions, opinions, and speech are protected.
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1 The identification and use of community assets and resources which both take advantage of what already exists, and teach the community what it can do with its own considerable resources. 2  The fostering of community commitment to the process of building a healthy community.  The creation of a healthy community self-image.
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Community self-image. Through the use of the Healthy Cities/Healthy Communities process, the community comes to think of itself as a healthy community, and is concerned with maintaining that image through addressing issues as they come up. Perhaps more important, it is brought to look at the larger picture as well.
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1 Increasing physical activity; 2  Reducing injury; 3  Increasing access to healthy food; 4  Improving air and water quality; 5  Minimizing the effects of climate change 6  ; Decreasing mental health stresses; 7  Strengthening the social fabric of a community; and.  Providing fair access to livelihood, education, and resources.
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Understanding and Describing the Community. For those of us who work in community health and development, it's important to understand community -- what a community is, and the specific nature of the communities we work in. Anything we do in a community requires us to be familiar with its people, its issues, and its history.
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Section 2. For those of us who work in community health and development, it's important to understand community -- what a community is, and the specific nature of the communities we work in. Anything we do in a community requires us to be familiar with its people, its issues, and its history.
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CDC is committed to forming new partnerships and seeking solutions to community-wide public health problems. Every person has a stake in environmental public health. As the environment deteriorates, so does the physical and mental health of the people within it.
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A good way to accomplish that is to create a community description -- a record of your exploration and findings. It's a good way to gain a comprehensive overview of the community -- what it is now, what it's been in the past, and what it could be in the future. In this section, we'll discuss how you might approach examining the community in some detail and setting down your findings in a community description.
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A healthy community as described by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2010 report is one that continuously creates and improves both its physical and social environments, helping people to support one another in aspects of daily life and to develop to their fullest potential.
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what makes a community healthy
The fostering of community commitment to the process of building a healthy community.