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1 Introduction and Organization of the Workshop
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... Health-promoting opportunities include healthy housing; revitalized and healthy neighborhoods with low crime; access to healthy and affordable foods; safe places to play and promote physical activity; transportation that is reliable, affordable, and easily accessible to all; safe water systems; strong social networks; and good jobs that provide living wages and benefits as well as opportunities to move up a career ladder. These opportunity-rich environments can buffer the onslaught of toxic conditions that many people face every day and promote better health for all.
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... and growth, healthy work and community environments, and improved employee health. At the same time, the workshop looked beyond the private sector to public–private partnerships and to public-sector actions that combine opportunities for economic growth and good health for all.
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... We need to be aware, we need to embrace, we need to include, and we're working very diligently to make that happen." Achieving this goal requires that organizations embrace what Clancy called "Diversity 3.0." The term acknowledges the need for comprehensive health, where people who are ill, disabled, or at risk of adverse health outcomes can have these issues addressed regardless of their circumstances. Comprehensive health "is not just physical health," Yancy insisted.
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... Even in communities beset by high levels of unemployment and health problems, people can be given the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the workplace, the speakers in this chapter observed. Chapter 4 turns to the health care system, examining a large health care provider, the health and well-being program of a major employer, and the training of health care providers.


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