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37 California Communities Funded
to Implement Novel Approach to Enhancing Community Health
ACCOUNTABLE COMMUNITIES FOR HEALTH
A Framework for
Transformational Change
For decades, long-standing inequities have exacerbated health issues in low-income communities and communities of color, resulting in persistent health disparities.
Accountable Communities for Health (ACHs) provide a powerful framework for tackling those inequities by breaking down barriers and promoting a new way of working together.
ACHs rely on three core principles to marshal the collective action and transformational system changes that lead to healthier, stronger, more equitable communities:
Center Community Voice
Community residents are too often excluded from critical decisions that impact their health. ACHs reengineer this reality by placing residents at the heart of all community health-related discussions. ACHs level the playing field by ensuring that residents have a prominent and active role in their ACH, helping to ensure that equity—and the realities that shape their health—is paramount.
Multi-Sector Engagement
ACHs include not only traditional healthcare and public health systems, but also partnerships that embrace the social drivers of health because improving health outcomes for all requires that health and other sectors, which reflect the various contributing factors needed for healthy communities, work in concert.
Align Systems and Priorities
ACHs help partners shift from transactional, program-specific approaches to a new norm where participants align local community interests, incubate fresh ideas and expand collective capacity. Built on a foundation of transparency and data sharing, this alignment results in greater impact than any one entity could achieve alone. By ensuring both transparency and accountability, trust is built among ACH members and the community.
37 communities.
100s of organizations.
1,000s of lives changed.
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