In a Policy Insight published in this month’s issue of Health Affairs, Anthony Iton and coauthors present theoretical and empirical research linking community power and health.

The authors argue that population health interventions should shift from a focus on individuals' behaviors to one based on community power.

In the article, the authors share the example of the Building Healthy Communities initiative, supported by the California Endowment, which enabled communities to hold policy makers accountable to advancing health equity.

Through the Building Healthy Communities initiative, fourteen communities were able to win more than 1,700 new policies, changes in systems, and other benefits, demonstrating a successful example of a democratic approach to community health improvement.

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