Give locals the to empower a culture of health in their community.
Generate More Health (GMH) is a health equity consultant that leverages data combined with real resident conversations to equip civic partners with action plans that enrich quality of life. Rooted in a belief that all communities and constituents deserve to thrive, GMH expands access to vital resources for those who need them most. From robust toolkits to regional health assessments and sustainable food security strategies. Together we can transform communities.
BROADENING HORIZONS IN HEALTH
A next-gen approach to promoting wellbeing.
Generate More Health advocates for the optimal wellbeing of marginalized groups. Today, public health is in the foreground of everything more than ever. All across the world, life expectancy differences exist among populations within a few miles simply because the network of resources and environment are not rooted in the conditions needed for health. A culture of health sets the vision for well-being and addresses the needs of a population to build a brighter reality.
Acknowledging modern-day public health focuses on creating conditions where people can achieve their best possible health.
The Culture of Health Vision: Elements of Success
The Culture of Health
Salutogenesis is the creation and generation of physical, mental, and social well-being. This is the key mechanism behind our approach to generating more health, particularly in communities facing chronic discrimination and lower life expectancies.
The Culture of Health equips community members with the tools and education to transform their social and economic environments into health-generating realities where increased health opportunities, food security, food equity, and higher qualities of life are the standard in communities across America.
Data-Informed
When we balance data with human behavior it grounds, validates, and aligns priority problems with solutions that address the real-life context of lived experiences. Especially, for those communities who are impacted and experience disparate health outcomes.
Deconstructing data to illuminate inequities and their root causes is only effective when the information is backed by community voices.
Data tells us what, who, when, where. People tell us the why and how.
Collective Impact
Intentionality behind this work is more than sharing information and working together. We must take those elements and combine them with the vision of what's desired by the community or population in question.
Creating mutually-reinforced plans delivers clear and intended outcomes. By default, we can deconstruct and change linear systems at every level, with care and attention to every generation.
Shared goals receive credit, not individuals alone.
Community Dialogue
We must listen and hear what the community is saying if we want to make sustainable change. We do not inherently know a community's truth and our implicit bias may cloud our ability to hear it.
When we remain present and engaged with community members despite feelings of discomfort, we demonstrate seeking to understand with care and empathy.
We remain open and curious to influence because communities strongly value what works to improves outcomes, not what is easy for those serving them.
Civic Leadership
Communities members need equal power in determining goals and allocating resources for civic agency to work.
Ownership for organization and mobilization must rest in the hands of the population in which change is expected.
Improving the quality of life of a community through both political and non-political processes means appreciating and accepting that people have their own agency, power, and wish to explicitly deconstruct the very policies, systems, and practices that have plagued their communities injustice and racism.
Collaborative action is the path to transformative change in power, equity, and justice.
Demand Health Equity
Systems and institutions must center and rest on health equity and justice. Breaking the cycle can and must be done.
By disrupting the structures that rigidly protect status quo and perpetuate inequalities, we can being to move upstream with our approaches and strategies.
Communities where healthy people stay healthy and the focus remains on the improvement of conditions and factors that impact health outcomes start with boots on the ground.
