Communities of Health (CoH) brings people together in collaborative dialogue to explore social conditions that are the major influences of health and illness, in a way that generates deeper collective awareness and community-driven action.

Does the Health of the Community Matter?

With all the work to make treatments more effective and costs more manageable, we continue to face deteriorating health in America. As U.S. annual total health care spending exceeds $2 trillion, the time is right to change the national dialogue on health, to explore the deep causes of illness and disease that drive people into the care system in the first place.

Conventional wisdom says that good health is the result of individual behavior, lifestyle, genetics and good medical care. However, evidence is mounting that community forces – such as social conditions, economic opportunity, food and transport systems – account for at least 50% of morbidity and mortality.

While healthy lifestyles and access to quality care will always be important, we are calling for an integrated approach that simultaneously addresses both individual and social dimensions of health.

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