Healthy Chesapeake Inc.

Healthy chesapeake is committed to building a culture of wellness that supports, sustains and advocates for a healthier chesapeake. To achieve this, healthy chesapeake recognizes that health and well-being are interconnected with social, cultural, physical, economic, and other factors. Healthy chesapeake both develops its own population health programs and provides support for community partners working in these areas. Programs are designed in response to priorities identified by the most recent chesapeake regional healthcare's community health needs assessment, the city of chesapeake's new chesapeake thrives plan "caring about our community's health and well-being,- and other dominant population health issues. Principal activities include programs to support access to and utilization of healthy foods, healthy lifestyles, chronic disease management, and early childhood development.

Recognizing that health and well-being are interconnected with social, cultural, physical, economic and other factors, healthy chesapeake is adopting many of the precepts of the healthy community movement that began in toronto, canada in 1984 and operates under the auspices of the world health organization. These factors are similar to those being used by the robert wood johnson foundation in determining their annual health rankings, which provide the focus areas for program development by the healthy chesapeake coalition and healthy chesapeake 501(c)3 non-profit.