The Center For Prevention at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota funded 15 organizations to advance health equity and support community power in communities across Minnesota through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change. PSE changes impact the health of a community by influencing the physical landscape, availability of resources, and how decisions about community design are made.
The Health POWER (People Organizing and Working for Equitable Results) initiative invested in community-led solutions to advance health equity through policy, systems, and environmental changes. This report summarizes the four year initiative by highlighting the people, approach, work, and impact of Health POWER.
The following report presents main findings and an in-depth analysis of the PSE changes catalyzed by the Health POWER-funded projects over the course of the four-year initiative.
To capture stories of impact across the 15 projects of Health POWER, Wilder Research worked with the Center for Prevention to facilitate three Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) sessions. This summary describes the impacts identified, mapped, and named by REM participants.
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