Discussion of Policy Implications for Improving the Built Environment and Land Use In

Discussion of policy implications for improving the built environment and land use in ways that support community health

BCCHC Monthly Meeting – October 23, 2012

Community Health Equity Report
What else would you like or do you need to know?

·  Question about gender breakdowns, specifically teen pregnancies at census tract level.

·  Cultural eq. quotient. Highlight positive aspects. Use as asset.

·  Balance positives and negatives for a whole picture.

·  Look at elderly issues: poverty, access, transportation.

·  Homelessness and life expectancy (people without a place)

·  Number of persons per household

How could you use this?

·  Identifies the needs of the community

o  Pockets of areas that are usually forgotten.

o  Overcrowding

·  Influence process in neighborhoods experiencing need.

·  Coalition focus on land use, using the document as a tool.

·  Health in All Policies approach to planning process (resolution)

How does this inform our County Health Profile?

·  Provides links.

·  Compare elements of CHER and 2009 Community Health Profile, which doesn’t have health outcomes.

·  Look at the places experiencing disparities and compare it with the Community Health Profile.

·  Built environment is a piece to move toward priority areas. The CHER informs the identification of priority areas.

What recommendations might be included in the Profile?

HIAs
What policies help/hinder communities from using HIAs to improve their neighborhoods?

·  Inventory of HIA or HIA-like documents.

·  Inform/educate neighborhood

o  Begin in most needed areas.

·  Hindered by little or no knowledge of HIA in communities

o  Neighborhoods not organized.

o  Expose/engage critical partners (APD, Planners, Human Impact Partners, Dept of Transportation, DOH, UNM, Parks&Rec, Environmental Health PRC, local area businesses)

How can we affect those policies?

·  Effective messaging

o  Positioning, property owners, CIP Program, include health criteria in all policies

·  Help: What triggers the need for HIAs? Global Policy e.g.: San Francisco

How does this inform recommendations for our Profile? (As Health Council / as individual organizations)

·  Inventory

·  Utilize upcoming statewide meetings to inform and educate

o  Policy Forum – NMPHA needs to be more active in advocacy

o  Statewide HC Alliance Meeting Dec. 5-6.

o  CTGers

·  Identify potential funding sources for HIAs

o  CDBG Infrastructure

o  Department of Finance and Administration

o  25K planning grants

o  Special legislative appropriations

·  HIAs impact all areas in the profile.