273945 A New Narrative for Health: Health Happens Here

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Daniel Zingale , The California Endowment, Sacramento, CA
Anthony Iton, MD, JD, MPH , Healthy Communities, The California Endowment, Oakland, CA
     
We need a new narrative for health -- one that conveys a more holistic and socially-connected view than insurance, pills and hospitals. To do this we need to break-through communication barriers to talk about the social determinants of health. “Health Happens Here” does that. Joining place and determinism (power) as agents for addressing how to achieve desired health outcomes, Health Happens Here speaks to collective stewardship to improve the underlying conditions for health, in all communities, for all groups, throughout the lifespan.

Learning Areas:
Provision of health care to the public

Learning Objectives:
Increase awareness of how communication barriers affect our ability to address key issues that underlie health and how we might overcome these to improve health status and outcomes.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Senior Vice President of Healthy California. I served as chief of staff to Maria Shriver and senior advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and worked for the previous California Governor Gray Davis as Secretary of the Cabinet and as Chief of Staff to Davis in the Office of the California Controller. I was the Executive Director of AIDS Action in Washington, DC and political director of the Human Rights Campaign.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 4095.0: Health Happens Here: Building Community Power and Systems Change for Social and Health Equity in California: A New Public Health Practice for the 21st Century?