How to Create a Healthy Community:
A Resource for Capacity Building in Health Promotion

How to Create a Healthy Community: A Resource for Capacity Building in Health Promotion is a practical and interactive online multimedia tool. The resource was created with the understanding that health promotion is “the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health”, as defined by the World Health Organization.

What does the resource include?

•  “Community Health Assessment: Paint a Picture of Health in Your Community” is intended to help individuals develop an increased understanding of the overall health in their communities through an interactive multimedia exercise
• “Model for Capacity Building in Health Promotion” provides steps, insights, tips and tools for improving the health of communities

Why was this resource developed?

• To disseminate key practices and procedures of the Healthy Alberta Communities (HAC) project
• To support health promotion practitioners, community organizations and individuals in making healthy choices easier for members of the community.

Who should use this resource?

• Health promotion practitioners
• Community organizations
• Community champions who care for the health of their communities