California healthy cities project: Piloting community‐based health promotion statewide

Twiss, Joan M.

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“…Indiana and California were among the first to develop programs, following the WHO example (Flynn, 1992;Twiss, 1992). As with the WHO initiative, these programs emphasized citizen participation and local government involvement, but did not have detailed steps for participants to follow and did not give significant financial resources to participating cities.…”

Section: Healthy Cities and Communities Programsmentioning

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The Colorado Trust's Healthy Communities Initiative: Results and Lessons for Comprehensive Community Initiatives

Conner¹,

Easterling²

2009

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Section: Healthy Cities and Communities Programsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Colorado Trust's Healthy Communities Initiative: Results and Lessons for Comprehensive Community Initiatives

Conner¹,

Easterling²

2009

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Assessing Community Change at Multiple Levels: The Genesis of an Evaluation Framework for the California Healthy Cities Project

Kegler

Twiss²,

Look³

2000

Health Educ Behav

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More than 40 cities have participated in the California Healthy Cities Project since its inception in 1988. Because Healthy Cities efforts are community driven, these cities address diverse health and social issues using a wide variety of strategies. This complexity, in addition to the usual difficulties associated with evaluating community interventions, creates many challenges for evaluation. Given the community building and process orientation of Healthy Cities, it may be most appropriate to measure intermediate community changes that have been linked to health outcomes in previous research or, at a minimum, theoretically. The California Healthy Cities evaluation framework conceptualizes change at five levels: individual, civic participation, organizational, interorganizational, and community. The framework, developed collaboratively with Healthy Cities participants, attempts to synthesize current thinking and practice on evaluation of community projects by applying concepts from community capacity/competence, social ecology, and urban planning.

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Communities Defining Environmental Health: Examples from the Colorado (U.S.A.) Healthy Communities Initiative

Conner¹,

Tanjasiri²

2000

Reviews on Environmental Health

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Communities are increasingly defining 'health' for themselves, then becoming the main actors in actions to improve their health and well being. These community members work from a broad and inclusive definition of 'health' that often incorporates environmental health as a key aspect. They also assume an ecological, or systems, viewpoint that integrates many aspects of the community that affect health and well being, including housing, health, economy, education, transportation, youth and family issues, as well as health and illness care. This paper describes a program that involves 28 large and small, urban and rural communities in the United States state of Colorado that undertook this type of community-based health improvement project. The Colorado Healthy Communities Initiative (CHCI) was designed to bring together citizens in Colorado to work collaboratively to make their communities healthier. This paper describes the program's background, including its principles, processes, and participants, then focuses on the particular aspects of environmental health that communities included in their definitions of a 'healthy community'.

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California healthy cities project: Piloting community‐based health promotion statewide

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The Colorado Trust's Healthy Communities Initiative: Results and Lessons for Comprehensive Community Initiatives

The Colorado Trust's Healthy Communities Initiative: Results and Lessons for Comprehensive Community Initiatives

Assessing Community Change at Multiple Levels: The Genesis of an Evaluation Framework for the California Healthy Cities Project

Communities Defining Environmental Health: Examples from the Colorado (U.S.A.) Healthy Communities Initiative

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