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Dec 2, 2016 · Want to know how Houston shapes up against other cities in terms of health? The Big Cities Health Coalition unveiled its upgraded Big Cities Health Inventory (BCHI) Data Platform this week, which lets users compare health notes across 28 large, urban cities, including Houston.
The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC) is a forum for the leaders of America’s largest metropolitan health departments to exchange strategies and jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of the 61 million people they serve.
The fourth-largest city in the United States, Houston is an expansive and diverse city in southern Texas. The mission of the Houston Health Department is to work in partnership with the community to promote and protect the health and social well-being of Houstonians and the environment in which they live.
- How We Got Here: Root Causes of Inequity
- Where Health Comes From: Social Determinants of Health
- What Healthy Communities Look Like: Health and Quality-Of-Life Outcomes
- How We Start to Achieve Equity
We must address inequity if we are to improve urban health overall. The health of everyone in a community is threatened when people in neighborhoods within the same city have life expectancies that differ by decades. Inequity is primarily driven by racism, sexism, and classism. Each of these has contributed to systemic oppression in terms of laws, ...
Every aspect of our lives affects our health. To be healthy, we need reliable access to income, housing, fresh foods, transportation, education, and more. Economic stability, which requires living wages and access to capital and educational opportunity, affects current and potential income. Income and stable employment also determine access to qual...
Being healthy both physically and mentally means being free of injury and illness and being able to cope with the stresses of everyday life or emergent issues. Stress, especially chronic stress, has detrimental effects on the human body. Research shows that people who endure difficult life circumstances, live in a dangerous environment, or experien...
Governments have a variety of levers they can pull to address the root causes of inequity, alter the social determinants of health, and improve health and quality-of-life outcomes. Government can also use its power to set us back on this journey, and all too often this happens in communities that are marginalized or have been consistently left behi...
Health Risks & Health Outcomes in Houston. Despite reductions in cancer mortality and lower rates of premature death than the state and nation, a sizable percentage of Houstonians continue to experience poor physical health and well-being.
Sep 21, 2022 · We know that Houston is the 4th largest city in the U.S., but in what ways is Houston big other than in size and population? And how does Houston’s size affect its residents directly and indirectly?
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Houston, the Harris County Department of Public Health and the City of Houston Department of Health and Human Services both provide public health services, albeit mostly within different geographies. The purpose of this report is to take a fresh look at possible service overlaps between the Harris County
