What Guides Our Work

Good health begins in the places where we are born, live, work, play, and learn. Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be healthier. Unfortunately, many communities face persistent challenges that limit opportunities to be healthy - no access to healthy foods, parks, healthcare, or transportation. PMCH utilizes multiple frameworks such as community engagement, the social ecological model, and others to address root causes of health inequities.

Community Engagement: the process of working collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting the wellbeing of those people...it can also be seen as a continuum of community involvement moving from outreach to consulting to collaborative initiatives

Social Ecological Model: health is affected by the interaction between the individual, the group/community, and the physical, social, and political environments. This approach focuses on integrating approaches to change the physical and social environments rather than modifying only individual health behaviors
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Principles of community engagement, 2011

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