CCHE’s case studies on policy adoption in Atlanta, Denver, and Seattle featured in new CityHealth Report
Over the past seven years, CityHealth, an initiative of the deBeaumont Foundation and Kaiser Permanente, has worked with city leaders in the nation’s 40 largest cities to adopt evidence-based policy solutions that ensure all people have access to healthy choices. CityHealth takes this approach because they believe that “cities are where solutions to some of society’s greatest challenges are born, tested, and proven.” As part of the initiative, cities can be awarded medals based on the number and quality of policies they adopt from the CityHealth policy package. In a recently released report, CityHealth states that 92.5% of cities had earned an overall medal based on adoption of policies from the CityHealth package (including 10 cities that earned an overall gold medal), impacting the lives of millions of people who call those cities home.
The Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE) is evaluating the CityHealth initiative in the 13 large cities within the Kaiser Permanente footprint. Two of the three evaluation goals are to understand the initiative’s effectiveness and impact and telling the story of CityHealth to inform the field. Over the past few years, CCHE has evaluated the policy adoption in cities across the KP footprint, including three exemplar cities: Smoke-Free Indoor Air in Atlanta, Tobacco 21 in Denver, and Healthy Food Procurement in Seattle. Case studies on these three successes are featured in the new report entitled “Better Health in America’s Cities: CityHealth’s First Chapter.”