One Agency's Contribution to Creating a Culture of Health in a Latinx Community

• Main Authors: Mariela Fernandez, Kimberly J. Shinew
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mary Ann Liebert 2019-02-01
• Series: Health Equity
• Subjects: Culture of Health; Hispanic; Latinx; nonprofit; parks
• Online Access: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/HEQ.2018.0056

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.