Healthy Communities- essay
APA FORMAT
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- Based on the required reading, which features of a healthy community are most important to you? Why?
- What would you tell the mayor about the health of your community? For full credit, be sure to mention ways your community is and is not healthy. Let us know which community you are writing about.
Module 1 – Background
FROM DISEASE PREVENTION TO HEALTH PROMOTION
If you are unsure which database the publication is in, try ProQuest first, then EBSCO.
Required Reading
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] (n.d.) Healthy Community Design. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/
[Please watch the Healthy Community Design Streaming Video linked at the top and read the Healthy Community Design Fact Sheet linked under “Additional Resources.”]
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2010). Determinants of health. Healthy People 2020. Retrieved from http://www.healthypeople.gov/
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2016). Healthy People 2020: Leading Health Indicators. Retrieved from http://www.healthypeople.gov/
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (2014). Public Health Learning Modules-Module 1: Using Healthy People 2020 to Improve Population Health. Part Two: What is Healthy People? Retrieved from https://vimeopro.com/
[Note: Video runtime is just over 7 minutes]
World Health Organization [WHO] (1997). The Jakarta Declaration on Leading Health Promotion into the 21st Century. Retrieved April 1, 2013 from http://www.who.int/
World Health Organization [WHO] (1986). Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. Retrieved April 1, 2013 from http://www.who.int/
[Note: the WHO readings are landmarks in the transition from disease prevention to health promotion, so they provide a historic perspective to the field
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There are many ways of determining the health of the people in the society which ranges from their social, mental and physical status. These factors ensure the comfort of individuals and hence the people who are stable in these three sectors are therefore regarded to be healthy while the vice versa is true. Looking at all these aspects of a healthy society, I prefer to have the three available in my environment as they work together (World Health Organization, 2018). It is difficult to have a great physical health without a sound mental condition. The social life will also be affected by any hindrance to the physical and mental conditions of an individual.
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