Abstract
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundations' Culture of Health represents a national call to ensure everyone living in the United States can have a healthy life. This article discusses how organizations outside of the health care sector can participate in creating a Culture of Health by using a nonprofit organization (Little Village Environmental Justice Organization) as an example. The organization's role in policy creation concerning cross-sector partnerships and governance to create equitable communities was of primary importance to this article. The example presented has important public health implications, particularly as it relates to promoting healthy outcomes among urban Latinx community members.
Highlights
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundations’ Culture of Health represents a national call to ensure everyone living in the United States can have a healthy life
The opportunity to examine how policy creation within the Culture of Health Action Framework can move from principles to practice presented itself in the case of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), which operates in Chicago’s South Lawndale neighborhood
In the development of the park, LVEJO partnered with Little Village residents, private businesses owned by Latinxs, health departments to educate residents about the negative health outcomes associated with superfund sites, churches that regarded clean landscapes as healing spaces, and other nonprofit organizations that focused on environmental injustices
Summary
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundations’ Culture of Health represents a national call to ensure everyone living in the United States can have a healthy life. The opportunity to examine how policy creation within the Culture of Health Action Framework can move from principles to practice presented itself in the case of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), which operates in Chicago’s South Lawndale neighborhood (known as Little Village).
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