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2012 Health of Boston Community Meetings |
Recent Meetings
Health of Dorchester: A Community Dialogue
June 20th, 5:30-8 PM
Dorchester House Multi-Service Center
1353 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester, MA
Allston Brighton Community Meeting
May 16, 2012
5:30-8:30 PM
St Elizabeth's Medical Center | Seton Auditorium
Click here for information from 2009 and 2010 Health of Boston Community Meetings.
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2011 Health of Boston Community Meetings |
Fields Corner Community Meeting
This evening of discussion about the health issues affecting Fields Corner in Dorchester occurred on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at Dorchester House at 1353 Dorchester Ave.
Partners: Dorchester House Multi-Service Center, Viet-AID, Mujeres Unidas en Accion, Close To Home, Vietnamese American Women’s League of Massachusetts and Vicinities, and Hospice of Boston & Greater Brockton
Topics: asthma, obesity and Hepatitis B and C.
Click here for the Fields Corner Report in 
English/Spanish or English/Vietnamese.
Hyde Park Community Meeting
This afternoon of discussion about the health issues affecting Hyde Park occurred on October 1, 2011.
Stay tuned for report.
South Boston Community Meeting
This evening of discussion about the health issues affecting South Boston occurred on November 14, 2011
Stay tuned for report.
Codman Square Community Meeting
This evening of discussion about the health issues affecting Codman Square occurred on December 1, 2011. Stay turned for report.
Click here for information from 2009 and 2010 Health of Boston Community Meetings.
The Office of Policy and Planning works to strengthen public policies that improve the health of Boston residents, particularly the most vulnerable. The office does this through:
- Building partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
- Convening standing and ad-hoc working groups within the Commission
- Coordinating, Disseminating, and Monitoring intergovernmental, interagency, community-based, and internal policy priorities
- Integrating anti-racist principles throughout Commission programs, policies, and practices
- Communicating updates and alerts e.g. state legislation, actions, etc.
- Representing and Promoting the Commission among city, state, federal agencies and legislators, community coalitions, and organizations
- Developing guidelines, tools, curricula, etc. responsive to the priorities of the Commission and community partners
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2009 and 2010 HEALTH OF BOSTON COMMUNITY MEETINGS |
Each year, BPHC holds meetings with the community to share health data from our Health of Boston report and to listen to residents’ concerns about their health. In the falls of 2009 and 2010, BPHC held four community meetings each year in collaboration with the Boston Alliance for Community Health (BACH) and four of its neighborhood health coalitions.
Over 500 Boston residents, providers, and policymakers participated in the meetings. The meetings also highlighted community assets and exposed participants to the problem of racial and ethnic health inequities and the social factors contributing to these unjust differences in health status and health outcomes. The meetings were successful in engaging residents and other stakeholders in dialogue, based on informative data presentations from BPHC’s Health of Boston report as well as data from neighborhood and national sources. Following the presentations, community members actively participated in small-group conversations that quickly moved from voicing concerns to finding possible solutions. The meetings also contributed to BPHC efforts to eliminate health inequities, encourage and support policy change and build and expand strategic community partnerships.
BPHC Community Meeting Long-Term Goals
1. To increase city-wide awareness of the social determinants of health and build capacity to advance health equity
2. To align and help achieve both BPHC and community health outcome goals
3. To build effective partnership as an ongoing strategy to engage the community and create mechanisms for mutual accountability to improve health outcomes
Below please find a list of the neighborhoods and corresponding coalitions which hosted meetings. Please click on the links below to view the reports, specific to each neighborhood:
Health of Jamaica Plain Community Meeting | November 2009 | Report (English)
La Salud de Jamaica Plain | Noviembre de 2009 | Informe (Español) - Spanish
Jamaica Plain Coalition: Tree of Life/Arbol de Vida
Topics Presented: Gun violence, overweight/obesity, diabetes, and sexual health (Chlamydia)
Health of Roxbury Community Meeting | November 2009 | Report
Roxbury Community Alliance for Health
Topics Presented: Overweight/obesity, diabetes, other chronic disease
Health of Codman Square Community Meeting | December 2009 | Report | December 2010 | 
Report
Codman Square Neighborhood Council
Topics Presented: Underage drinking, gun violence, heart disease, diabetes and obesity
Health of Dorchester Community Meeting | December 2009 | Report
Franklin Field/Franklin Hill Dorchester Healthy Boston Coalition
Topics Presented: Diabetes, heart disease/hypertension, prostate cancer
Health of the South End Community Meeting | October 2010 | Report
Health of East Boston Community Meeting | November 2010 | Report
Health of Allston-Brighton Community Meeting | November 2010 | Report
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IMPROVING PRIMARY CARE ACCESS IN BOSTON |
In February 2008, Mayor Menino, with Dr. Paula Johnson, the Chairperson of the BPHC Board, convened a summit to address primary care access in Boston. The participants at the summit were asked to assess the current state of primary care in Boston, identify challenges and make recommendations to improve access for Boston residents. Work groups were formed to concentrate on three areas -- the health care system, workforce development and financing. The report, published in July 2008, contains recommendations and suggested next steps to improve access to primary care in the city of Boston.
In response to the report, Mayor Menino identified areas for immediate action and convened the Mayor’s Primary Care Task Force. The Task Force and its working groups studied the areas for action in light of substantial changes at the state level, guided additional activities, and made a number of recommendations to address primary care in the City of Boston. This report describes the progress and outlines recommended next steps to advance the goals laid out by the Task Force.
Reports
July 2008 Summit Report
October 2009 Task Force Report
December 2009 Workforce Capacity Subgroup Position Paper
December 2009 Recruitment & Retention White Paper
2011 Mayoral Prize
Click here for more information.
Primary Care Focus newsletter
Winter 2010
Spring 2011
Summer 2011
Fall 2011