Guide Questions:

WHAT MAKES A HEALTHY COMMUNITY

A healthy community generally comprises multiple group sectors working together to 1. What is community?
make healthy living options accessible and improve the conditions that influence the 2. What health services are commonly available in your school and in your
community. Working to promote healthy living provides the greatest health benefits to community?
the greatest number of people that aids in the reduction of health disparities caused by 3. Suggest ways or solutions to make the workplace more healthful and safe.
inequalities in income, education, race and ethnicity, location, and other health-related 4. What is the significance in working together for a healthy living?
factors. Additionally, healthy communities manifest a high immunization level to protect 5. How can we influence other people to be an advocate for a healthy
residents from disease, as well as simple access to medical care and nutritious food community?
and provide enough mental health resources. Hence, with an understanding that the 6. What is the impact of community health to our environmental issues?
communities in which people live impact their health, how do we build communities that
support health? and how do we build healthy communities? Consequently,
stakeholders of the community initiate a broad definition of compelling and shared
vision based on community values. improved quality of life for everyone in the
community, diverse citizen participation and citizen-driven, collaborative problem-
solving, and acknowledgment of the social determinants of health and the
interrelationship of health and community. In line with this, there are notably underlying
key elements that comprise a healthy community, these are the following: Provision of
basic needs (food, water, shelter. income, safety, work) for all individuals; Optimum
level of appropriate public health and sick care services accessible to all; High health
status (both high positive health status and low disease status); Access to a wide
variety of resources, with the possibility of multiple contacts, interactions and
communication, Clean, safe, high quality environment (including housing), an
ecosystem that is stable now and sustainable in the long term: High degree of public
participation in and control over the decisions affecting life, health, and wellbeing:
Diverse, vital and innovative economy; and, mutually supportive and non-exploitative
community. Therefore, adhering to the principles of healthy living along with its goals
and outcomes is the key to enriching the work of healthy community groups that
promote to improve the health and wellbeing of people within a community and the
community itself.
 WHAT MAKES A HEALTHY
COMMUNITY

A healthy community generally comprises multiple group sectors working together to

make healthy living options accessible and improve the conditions that influence the
community. Working to promote healthy living provides the greatest health benefits to
the greatest number of people that aids in the reduction of health disparities caused by
inequalities in income, education, race and ethnicity, location, and other health-related
factors. Additionally, healthy communities manifest a high immunization level to protect
residents from disease, as well as simple access to medical care and nutritious food
and provide enough mental health resources. Hence, with an understanding that the
communities in which people live impact their health, how do we build communities that
support health? and how do we build healthy communities? Consequently, stakeholders
of the community initiate a broad definition of compelling and shared vision based on
community values. improved quality of life for everyone in the community, diverse
citizen participation and citizen-driven, collaborative problem-solving, and
acknowledgment of the social determinants of health and the interrelationship of health
and community. In line with this, there are notably underlying key elements that
comprise a healthy community, these are the following: Provision of basic needs (food,
water, shelter. income, safety, work) for all individuals; Optimum level of appropriate
public health and sick care services accessible to all; High health status (both high
positive health status and low disease status); Access to a wide variety of resources,
with the possibility of multiple contacts, interactions and communication, Clean, safe,
high quality environment (including housing), an ecosystem that is stable now and
sustainable in the long term: High degree of public participation in and control over the
decisions affecting life, health, and wellbeing: Diverse, vital and innovative economy;
and, mutually supportive and non-exploitative community. Therefore, adhering to the
principles of healthy living along with its goals and outcomes is the key to enriching the
work of healthy community groups that promote to improve the health and wellbeing of
people within a community and the community itself.