COVID-19 crisis has affected all of us. It has changed the way we live our daily lives and now it has complicated the 2020 Census. Counting every person living in California continues to be the highest priority. We must not let COVID-19 impact how our...
For far too long, our poorest residents have had their futures decided by a limited number of people who have held power in our communities. But since 2010, our Building Healthy Communities effort has demonstrated countless times that empowering residents to get involved in the...
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It has been said that a nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members. By that standard, we really do need to make America great again. Our national leadership has launched a direct attack on our most vulnerable residents – not just in...
For too long we’ve tried to solve the economic and social divisions in our communities by attacking the problems as individual challenges. These well-intentioned efforts have resulted in some progress, but have done little to create a sustainable community structure to give everyone a fair...
As a young medical student, I began noticing the correlation between healthy residents and their socio-economic status. It quickly became clear that your zip code impacted your health more than your genetic factors. There can be as much as a 25-year difference in life expectancy between...
This year the Building Healthy Communities 14 sites held their annual convening in Sacramento. In the days of the convening they were able to showcase the powerful and sustaining work of BHC to California Decision makers. ...
Cuando se trata de nuestra salud, nuestro código postal importa más que nuestro código genético.Para muchas comunidades en California y en los Estados Unidos, el acceso facil a opciones de comida saludable, parques de ejercicio, y las buenas escuelas determinan la calidad y duración de...
Author: Dr. Anthony Iton, Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities at The California Endowment. Date: Monday, Dec 05, 2017 Originally published at Daily Kos The most interesting thing about the Trump phenomenon is not Donald Trump, it is his mostly white poorly educated working class constituency and the...