Healthy Communities
Increase the number of communities that protect, and promote health and safety and prevent illness and injury in all their members.
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.
Objectives
- Promote safe and high-quality air, water, food, and waste disposal, and safety from toxic, infectious, and other hazards, in communities.
- Support the design and development of built environments that promote physical and mental health by encouraging healthy behaviors, quality of life, and social connectedness.
- Support a robust, sustainable capacity to provide access to and ensure receipt of essential public health, health promotion, health education, and medical services.
- Understand and reduce the negative health consequences of climate change.
- Prevent injuries and violence and their consequences in communities.
- Improve the social determinants of health among communities with excess burden and risk.
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- Office of Strategy and Innovation
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Atlanta, GA 30333
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