Healthy Communities

There are many ways to become involved and take action to improve the health of your community. Your participation in Community of Mine is just one of these ways to help build healthier communities in San Diego.

Here are some local healthy community resources:

• Network for a Healthy California San Diego
• Healthy Works
• Circulate San Diego
• Neighborhood Walk Score
• Request a Street Repair (within San Diego City)
• Request a Street Repair (outside of SD City limits)
• Contact your local representative
• An Ecological Approach to Creating Active Living Communities
• Physical Activity and the Build Environment
• Aging in neighborhoods differing in walkability and income: associations with physical activity and obesity in other adults

Here are additional publications about healthy communities:

Sallis JF, Cervero R, Ascher WW, Henderson K, Kraft MK, Kerr J An Ecological Approach to Creating Active Living Communities. Ann Rev Public Health, 297-322. (2006).

Sallis J, Kerr J Physical Activity and the Built Environment. President’s Council on Fitness and Sport, Research Digest, 7, 4, 2006

King AC, Sallis JF, Frank LD, Saelens BE, Cain K, Conway TL, Chapman JE, Ahn DK, Kerr J. Aging in neighborhoods differing in walkability and income: associations with physical activity and obesity in older adults. Soc Sci Med. 2011 73(10):1525-33