Stempski Sarah, Liu Lenna, Grow H Mollie, Pomietto Maureen, Chung Celeste, Shumann Amy, Bennett Elizabeth
Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA
Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Odessa Brown Children's Clinic, Seattle, WA, USA.
Health Educ Behav. 2015 Apr;42(1 Suppl):106S-114S. doi: 10.1177/1090198115570047.
Well-known disparities exist in rates of obesity and drowning, two public health priorities. Addressing these disparities by increasing access to safe swimming and water recreation may yield benefits for both obesity and injury prevention. Everyone Swims, a community partnership, brought community health clinics and water recreation organizations together to improve policies and systems that facilitated learning to swim and access to swimming and water recreation for low-income, diverse communities. Based in King County, Washington, Everyone Swims launched with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant funding from 2010 to 2012. This partnership led to multiple improvements in policies and systems: higher numbers of clinics screening for swimming ability, referrals from clinics to pools, more scholarship accessibility, and expansion of special swim programs. In building partnerships between community health/public health and community recreation organizations to develop systems that address user needs in low-income and culturally diverse communities, Everyone Swims represents a promising model of a structured partnership for systems and policy change to promote health and physical activity.
肥胖率和溺水发生率存在众所周知的差异，这是两个公共卫生重点问题。通过增加安全游泳和水上娱乐活动的可及性来解决这些差异，可能对肥胖预防和伤害预防都有益处。“全民游泳”是一个社区合作项目，它将社区健康诊所和水上娱乐组织联合起来，以改善政策和体系，从而促进低收入、多元化社区的游泳学习以及游泳和水上娱乐活动的可及性。“全民游泳”项目位于华盛顿州金县，于2010年至2012年在疾病控制与预防中心的资助下启动。这种合作带来了政策和体系的多项改进：更多诊所对游泳能力进行筛查、诊所向泳池提供转诊、更多奖学金可及、特殊游泳项目得以扩展。通过在社区健康/公共卫生与社区娱乐组织之间建立伙伴关系，以开发满足低收入和文化多元社区用户需求的体系，“全民游泳”代表了一种有前景的结构化伙伴关系模式，可用于推动促进健康和体育活动的体系及政策变革。
