Flores Lissette M, Davis Rachel, Culross Patti
Prevention Institute, 221 Oak St, Oakland, CA 94607, USA.
Prev Chronic Dis. 2007 Oct;4(4):A108. Epub 2007 Sep 15.
Many public health solutions to chronic diseases involve individual lifestyle choices: eating more healthfully, increasing physical activity, and quitting smoking. This approach neglects barriers in the community environment that make modifying unhealthy behaviors challenging. Addressing environmental barriers is an essential strategy to supporting behavioral changes. Changing community environments that contribute to unhealthy behaviors can improve community health. Community indicator reports can be used to strengthen community environments for optimum health. The reports are comprehensive evaluations of community well-being that reflect community factors that influence health. Prevention Institute studied community indicator reports for The California Endowment and produced Good Health Counts: A 21st Century Approach to Health and Community for California. This commentary on that document highlights recommendations for the use of community indicator reports.
更健康地饮食、增加体育活动以及戒烟。这种方法忽视了社区环境中那些使得改变不健康行为具有挑战性的障碍。解决环境障碍是支持行为改变的一项重要策略。改变导致不健康行为的社区环境能够改善社区健康。社区指标报告可用于强化社区环境以实现最佳健康状态。这些报告是对社区福祉的全面评估，反映了影响健康的社区因素。预防研究所研究了加利福尼亚捐赠基金的社区指标报告，并撰写了《健康很重要：21世纪加利福尼亚的健康与社区方法》。这篇关于该文件的评论强调了使用社区指标报告的建议。
