Healthy Institutions
Increase the number of institutions that provide safe, healthy, and equitable environments for their residents, clients or inmates.
The places where people live, work, learn, and play will protect and promote their health and safety, especially those at greater risk of health disparities.
Institutions considered here include correctional facilities, homeless shelters, post-secondary college and university campuses, and day care centers.
Objectives
- Promote institutional settings that are designed, constructed, and modified to be hazard free and promote health.
- Promote delivery of health promotion programs in institutions.
- Prevent infectious diseases and their consequences among people in institutional settings.
- Prevent chronic diseases and their consequences among people in institutions.
- Prevent injuries and violence, and their consequences, among people in institutions.
- Promote continuity of patient care across institutional public health, medical systems, and community health systems.
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