Publications

Partnership for the Public's Health

• Addressing the Social Determinants of Health (290 KB)

  A Vision to Transform Health and Social Equity in CA and the US: 

  PPH Mission & Theory of Change 

  Strong community resident leadership and a robust network of local collaborative can generate the “tipping capacity” to create health and social equity in California and elsewhere in the U.S.

  © 2010

   

California Convergence

• Youth to Watch: Making Healthier Communities (1.7 MB)

  Youth throughout California have become vocal advocates for health equity, food justice, safer communities, and healthier food and physical activity environments. Read about some of these inspiring youth leaders.
  ©2010

• California Convergence: Promise and Progress in Building a Movement (62 KB)

  This case study of the California Convergence one year after its first major conference describes Convergence’s vision, and presents early lessons on this movement-building effort.
  ©2009

Healthy Eating, Active Communities

• Key Lessons From California Schools Working to Change School Food Environments (1.4 MB)
  As part of a comprehensive, multi-sector approach to improving children’s environments for health, HEAC coalitions included school districts as core partners, with local health departments and community based organizations. This brief outlines challenges, opportunities and key considerations for working with and within schools to improve nutrition and physical activity environments for children. ©2007
• Making Healthy Choices Possible (2.2 MB)
  HEAC demonstration sites included three core, funded partners, and received sector-specific as well as more general technical assistance, coaching and support. This midpoint lessons learned report from the HEAC program diagrams the structure of the demonstration sites and the technical support provided, and presents success and lessons emerging at the midpoint of the program. ©2007
• Photovoice as a Tool for Youth Policy Advocacy (550 KB)
  Several HEAC sites found Photovoice to be a powerful tool in the hands of youth, to advocate for healthier environments. This brief describes key features of an effective and empowering Photovoice youth program, and lists resources that will help you get started. ©2009
• Promoting Healthier After School Environments: Opportunities and Challenges (2 MB)
  As part of a comprehensive, multi-sector approach to improving children’s environments for health, HEAC coalitions work with after- and out-of-school programs for children and youth. This brief outlines challenges and opportunities, when working to improve nutrition and physical activity environments for children in after school settings. ©2009
• Engaging Communities in Changing Nutrition and Physical Activity Environments (2.4 MB)

  When local residents get involved in policy and systems change to create healthier food and physical activity environments, communities begin to truly reflect the vision, needs, and possibilities of the people who live there. This brief offers lessons for effectively engaging and including community residents, from the HEAC and CCROPP programs.
  ©2009

Partnership for the Public’s Health Initiative

• Building Local Community-Based Public Health Systems (580 KB)
  Forging the local partnerships between community groups and local health departments that formed the essential foundation for change in the PPH Initiative required engaging residents, sharing power, and cultivating a common culture. This midpoint report describes the strategies undertaken to build effective partnerships, on the way to powerful, respectful collaboration. It concludes with systems and policy recommendations to support this Community Based Public Health approach to addressing the social determinants of health. ©2004
• Strategies for Building Community-Public Health Partnerships (720KB)

  The Partnership for the Public’s Health Initiative pioneered efforts to build partnerships between communities and public health agencies in California, to improve the environments for community health. This final report presents the key elements of this groundbreaking initiative, how it was implemented, and key learnings about the potential and impact of this approach.
  ©2007

• The Legacy of Partnership: Enduring Practices and Sustainable Models from the Partnership for the Public’s Health Initiative (2.1MB)

  This independent evaluation of the PPH Initiative, conducted four years after its conclusion, focuses on sites that successfully sustained elements of their PPH collaboration. It identifies best practices for sustainability of a community partnership approach to public health.
  ©2009

Public Health Departments Addressing Chronic Disease

• Case Studies in Chronic Disease Prevention: Local Health Departments Confront the Challenge of the 21st Century (500KB)

  These case studies were prepared as background for a conference, Chronic Disease Prevention in Local Health Departments: The Challenge of the 21st Century, co-sponsored by the California Conference of Local Health Officers (CCLHO ) and the County Health Executives Association of California (CHEAC). They look at the strategies adopted by seven local health departments working to address chronic disease effectively, in an era in which categorical funding and other challenges work against optimal organizational structures and practices.
  ©2007

• Chronic Disease Prevention in Local Health Departments: The Challenge of the 21st Century (3.76MB)

  On January 22, 2008, senior officials from 45 local health departments in California, as well as representatives from the California Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, convened to discuss how build the capacity of local health departments in California to engage in chronic disease prevention, by addressing the social determinants of health. These Proceedings are not only an effort to capture the content of this significant event in the recent history of public health in California, but also to serve as a framing document for a series of follow-up regional meetings and web-based conferences.
  ©2008

• Nutrition and Physical Activity in California, the Landscape of Funding and the Role of State and Local Health Departments (1.76MB)

  This white paper offers a framework for prevention, and an analysis of the funding available to Local Health Departments to support place-based prevention of obesity in California.
  ©2007

• Case Studies in Chronic Disease Prevention: Local Health Departments Confront the Challenge of the 21st Century

  These case studies were prepared as background for a conference, Chronic Disease Prevention in Local Health Departments: The Challenge of the 21st Century, co-sponsored by the California Conference of Local Health Officers (CCLHO ) and the County Health Executives Association of California (CHEAC). They look at the strategies adopted by seven local health departments working to address chronic disease effectively, in an era in which categorical funding and other challenges work against optimal organizational structures and practices.
  ©2007