GE launched HealthyCities Leadership Academy to address population health in the nation's communities.
Here are six highlights:
1. The program coordinates community collaboration to develop population health improvements. Communities will partner with public and private entities to establish programs.
2. The National Academy of Medicine and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation will work with GE's healthymagination commitment.
3. GE's healthymagination commitment emphasizes better health for more people.
4. The program will select 10 communities to receive $25,000 for community and business leader training.
5. The program will call on social service units, school systems, employers, environmental quality and law enforcement to participate.
6. The program will begin in October.
"The leadership by GE and its partners to identify new, creative and economically sustainable ways to affect the broader social determinants of health such as the social, economic and physical environment factors is an exciting opportunity," David Kindig, MD, PhD, co-chair of the Roundtable for Population Health Improvement at the National Academy of Medicine.
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