community design

AZ Cities’ General Plan Schedules

By |2017-02-10T09:50:28-07:00May 2nd, 2013|General|

A city’s General Plan is one tool for communities to define how they want their city or town to grow and improve population health.  Currently, Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, and Scottsdale are updating their General Plans, and each city has a variety of resources that give community members the opportunity to share their opinions and get [...]

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City Planning & Population Health

By |2017-02-10T09:50:32-07:00April 22nd, 2013|General, Prevention|

Last week I wrote about how improving the health of Arizonans is critical to improving the quality of life and reducing health care costs…  and that effective strategies are ones that incorporate the principles of population health.   A city’s General Plan can be a large public health lever to improve outcomes because it’s the long-range planning [...]

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AZ Healthy Community Design Tools

By |2017-02-10T09:50:33-07:00April 15th, 2013|Prevention|

Improving the health of Arizonans is critical to improving the quality of life as well as reducing health care costs. The most effective strategies are ones that incorporate the principles of population health… which includes health outcomes as well as the determinants that influence those outcomes including the public policy that influences the social and environmental [...]

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What’s Population Health?

By |2017-02-10T09:50:34-07:00April 9th, 2013|General|

No doubt you’ve heard the term “population health” bandied about these days…  especially as the nation wrestles with finding ways to keep people healthier while decreasing health care costs.  But what exactly is population health?  At its core, population health examines groups of people, their health outcomes, and the elements that influence those outcomes.  Examples of things that influence health [...]

Implementing Our Strategic Plan- Promote Physical Activity & Nutrition

By |2017-02-10T09:51:13-07:00April 23rd, 2012|Prevention|

Our Public Health Prevention folks launched an exciting new initiative to improve health outcomes for Arizonans this month called the Arizona Population Health Policy Initiative.  This new partnership (with Arizona’s local county health departments) is focused on achieving targeted improvements in health outcomes for Arizonans by advancing evidence-based strategies which address community design, school health, [...]

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