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Sustainable Social Health 50th International Making Cities Livable Conference June 24, 2013 RESHAPING SUBURBIA INTO COMPLETE HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Carolina Casares, MD MPH
Transcript of Sustainable Social Health Portland presentation
Sustainable Social Health
50th InternationalMaking Cities Livable Conference
June 24, 2013
RESHAPING SUBURBIA INTOCOMPLETE HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
Carolina Casares, MD MPH
Carolina Casares
“Environment Matters” for Health
A large body of evidence shows that social, economic, and environmental conditions dictate people’s health and opportunities to live healthy lives.
“Good community design is good public health”
Howard Frumkin
Healthy Environments
Promote Healthier
Living
Fosters Healthy
BehaviorsEncourages
Engagement
Stimulates Action
Forrest Hills Community Assessment
Goal
The goal was to complete a community assessment that identified specific priority areas related to health and sustainability that the neighborhood supported addressing.
Objectives
1. Engage the community in a conversation around sustainability.2. Assess and identify the neighborhood’s immediate needs and
priority areas for improvement. 3. Identify potential coalition members.
Implementation
1. Plan: Who What Why Where How
2. Gather Information: subject
3. Engage Community
4. Implement Survey
5. Collect and Analyze the Data
6. Provide Feedback and a Road Map with Low Effort, High Impact Deliverables
7. Next Steps/Plan of Action
What Was Accomplish in 8 weeks?
Written final report with detailed findings identifying priority areas of concern
Listing of potential coalition members
Target Population: FH neighborhood 232 households/202 neighbors on FB - 54 completed the survey (25%)
Under Budget
Lessons Learned Engaging the community and the sharing of the scope of work early in the process is
vital.
Survey was key to identifying top areas for improvement and will help the community make data informed decisions and prioritize next steps .
Several neighbors have been identified as willing to become more engaged in developing a plan.
Develop and propose a road map with suggested next steps based on an analysis of the findings.
LOW EFFORT HIGH IMPACT
Fruit Anyone?
How Do We Accomplish This?
It Isn't Easy!
Change Behaviors
Create a sustainable culture
of sustainability and social health-of
Success
Inspire
Conspire…
