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Healthy Baltimore 2015: A City Where All Residents Realize Their Full Health Potential

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Baltimore City Health Department created the "Healthy Baltimore 2015." It is an example of one type of community health improvement plan. It stresses the importance of partnership building and includes a specific strategy on how to implement health in all policies (HiAP) in order to affect how policy is developed. This tool serves as an example of a local HiAP approach and it also provides example language that other local jurisdictions can utilize as they develop their own community health improvement plans.

Toolkit:

Environmental Health in All Policies (HiAP)

Keyword Area:

Accreditation, Health Equity, Health Policy, Policies, Social Justice

Jurisdiction:

Institutional Author:

Baltimore City Health Department

Submitted:

11/27/2012

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Healthy Baltimore 2015: A City Where All Residents
By John McLeod
This is an excellent plan/community assessment information full of supportive data and justification, but missing what and how they used the information to implement health in all policy.