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Every Californian should have the opportunity to live a healthy life. The California Healthy Places Index (HPI) is a powerful new tool, developed by the Public Health Alliance of Southern California, to assist you in exploring local factors that predict life expectancy and comparing community conditions across the state. The HPI provides overall scores and more detailed data on specific policy action areas that shape health, like housing, transportation, education and more. This website offers other resources everyone will find useful, including an interactive map, graphs, data tables, and policy guide with practical solutions for improving community conditions and health.
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“I’m so pleased to be offering this valuable and timely resource across California. It is a thrill to see this incredibly rich Index roll out to people who will bring about important systems and policy changes to assure healthy community conditions for all.”
– Tracy Delaney, PhD, Executive Director, Public Health Alliance of Southern California
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“The Healthy Places Index offers tremendous detail on social, economic and environmental conditions impacting communities across California. It provides actionable data for planners, community members, and electeds to use data to inform policies and impact systems change. A great resource to build healthier communities!”
- Elizabeth Baca, MD, Senior Health Advisor, Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
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“There are so many potential uses for all sectors seeking to understand health factors and explore the impacts at different geographic levels statewide.”
- Mary A. Pittman, DrPH, President and CEO of Public Health Institute
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"The Healthy Places Index should be a national model for assessing community conditions that influence health outcomes. It clarifies the local impacts of systems and environments within our neighborhoods and is a tremendous asset for public health."
– Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, Med, Director, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
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"The Healthy Places Index is a one-of-a-kind resource for local health departments and community partners to take a close look at the conditions that shape our collective health. Beyond the data, it also offers policy solutions that jurisdictions can advance to make meaningful impacts in our communities."
– Michael Johnson, Director, City of Pasadena Public Health Department
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"The Healthy Places Index provides great insights into the conditions that create health and well-being. It can guide communities' efforts to better health."
– Steven Teutsch, MD, MPH, Senior Fellow, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California and Adjunct Professor, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
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"The Healthy Places Index is an innovative tool for turning community-level data into action. The tool's features, such as the use of data indicators linked to life expectancy, can help many health care practitioners learn about (and prioritize investments in) the social, policy and environmental factors that impact community health outcomes."
– Mehrnaz Davoudi, MPH, Sr. Program Evaluation Manager Community Benefit, Kaiser Permanente, Southern California
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“The Healthy Places Index can play an important role in advancing health equity discussions, offering actionable recommendations and timely policy solutions across the range of critical social and economic drivers of health.”
– Beatriz Solis, PhD, MPH, Director of Healthy Communities, South Region, California Endowment
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"The Healthy Places Index is a valuable resource that community groups, non-profit organizations, government agencies, and funders can use to explore the social, economic, and environmental conditions that shape health and wellbeing. The Healthy Places Index is grounded in a solid evidence base and it has a user-friendly interface that make it an effective tool to help anyone develop compelling reports and make the case for policy advocacy, resource allocations and community action.”
– Manal J. Aboelata, MPH, Managing Director, Prevention Institute
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“What’s most impressive is how granular and relevant the data are. This is actionable information that communities can use right now to improve local health and well-being.”
- Andy Krackov, Vice President for Data Strategy, Velir
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"The Healthy Places Index is an exceptional resource. It uses a new methodology to deliver precision data on the major drivers of health in our communities and creates opportunities to engage partners in all sectors."
- Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH, Director Emeritus, Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Society and Health