Your Content Goes HereA healthy neighborhood is one with opportunities that enable all people to live healthy and vibrant lives. Increasingly, research shows that our health and well-being is dependent on a range of interconnected social, economic and physical factors that impact the environments where people live, learn, work, and play. These factors – known as the social determinants of health – and the resulting health inequities play out dramatically at the neighborhood level.
Through our Healthy Neighborhoods approach to community development, we are evaluating each neighborhood where we work through the social determinants lens. Certain determinants – housing options, income and wealth, and social cohesion – have always been and will continue to be central to the work of EBALDC. However, over the past several years, we have also become more focused on collaboration, convening strong neighborhood partnership networks, working with coalitions of residents, businesses, community and faith-based organizations, educational institutions, and other public agencies to better understand the needs of our neighborhoods as a way to better identify priorities, develop strategies and build partnerships to address the unique challenges in each neighborhood. This comprehensive perspective helps those we work with – at an individual and institutional level – begin a path toward healthy, stable and fulfilling lives in a holistic, sustainable way.
Learn more about our Healthy Neighborhoods Approach in our Strategic Plan.
