Communities And Health Policy: A Pathway For Change
Open Access
- 1 March 2005
- journal article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 24 (2), 339-342
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.24.2.339
Abstract
Improving the health system can reduce the effects of health disparities, but it can do little to eliminate them. An upsurge in new research is documenting the impact of physical, social, and economic environmental factors: air quality, housing conditions, racism, relationship to community institutions, and neighborhood economic conditions, all of which affect health status over time. A combined focus on community and the policies that affect communities’ environments presents opportunities for altering and ameliorating the underlying forces at the heart of the determinants of health. This Perspective presents examples of successful community involvement and policy change.Keywords
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