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A little about community population health and wellness dynamics
Communities across the U.S. and internationally are working to improve population health to increase human welfare and decrease health care costs. There is evidence that indicators of population health and wellness, such as physical activity, nutrition and other health behaviors, vary geographically due to the structural conditions of local communities. An omnibus challenge to achieve population health and wellness improvement, therefore, is to facilitate change in conditions across in the numerous places where people live, learn, work, and play in a geographic area. This a multilevel whole-of-community population health and wellness dynamic system problem.
The Community Population Health and Wellness for Children Research Project, under the direction of Dr. David Dzewaltowski, has the following aims:
While the project name is new, we have been collaborating with communities and organizations in integrated research and practice efforts promoting population health outcomes in children, youth and families targeting physical activity, nutrition and other health behaviors since 1998.
Dr. David Dzewaltowski is the Endowed Community Chair and Professor at the College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Buffett Early Childhood Institute. A central challenge for achieving population health improvement is to facilitate organizational change across sectors resulting in numerous places promoting health where people live, learn, work, play, and seek care in a geographic area. We propose to fill this need by building on our past work on human-environment ecological systems theory, implementation science, and behavior change in community settings. Dr. Dzewaltowski's research group has many collaborators including international population health experts, community agencies, and undergraduate and graduate students seeking Masters of Public Health and Ph.D. degrees.
Go to Wellscapes.org to learn about our new community systems intervention for population health improvement.
The Community Population Health and Wellness for Children Research Project, under the direction of Dr. David Dzewaltowski, has the following aims:
- To develop and evaluate a framework identifying drivers and community human-environment system dynamics resulting in improved community population health and wellness outcomes.
- To develop and evaluate measures and metrics of drivers and tools for studying and improving local community systems for population health improvement for children.
- To develop and evaluate a planning, implementation, and feedback whole-of-community landscape improvement method (www.wellscapes.org) to foster population health and equity.
While the project name is new, we have been collaborating with communities and organizations in integrated research and practice efforts promoting population health outcomes in children, youth and families targeting physical activity, nutrition and other health behaviors since 1998.
Dr. David Dzewaltowski is the Endowed Community Chair and Professor at the College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Buffett Early Childhood Institute. A central challenge for achieving population health improvement is to facilitate organizational change across sectors resulting in numerous places promoting health where people live, learn, work, play, and seek care in a geographic area. We propose to fill this need by building on our past work on human-environment ecological systems theory, implementation science, and behavior change in community settings. Dr. Dzewaltowski's research group has many collaborators including international population health experts, community agencies, and undergraduate and graduate students seeking Masters of Public Health and Ph.D. degrees.
Go to Wellscapes.org to learn about our new community systems intervention for population health improvement.
Recent NewsDr. David Dzewaltowski moved in January of 2017 from Kansas State University to the College of Public Health, University of Nebaska Medical Center and Buffett Early Childhood Institute. He describes the work of his team in multiple youth and family settings in 2016 in a podcast with the Huffines Institute at Texas A&M University.
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