To create conditions for community wellbeing we must look back – at continuing, historic influences – and forward – to the major forces that shape current and future priorities. The Visualizing Wellbeing series explores the state of wellbeing in the United States through a collection of data visualizations. Each week we will explore one vital condition that comprise our framework for community wellbeing, developed in partnership through the Well Being Legacy Initiative.
Basic Needs for Health and Safety is about our most practical requirements for physical and mental survival. Having enough of the things we cannot live without. Feeling safe wherever we go. Being free from substance misuse and toxic stress; and nurturing healthy babies. It is also about getting routine health care.
None of us can reach our full potential in the absence of several practical requirements for physical and mental survival. Each of us must have enough air, water, and nutritious food; a good balance of physical activity and sleep; and safe, satisfying sexuality, and healthy reproduction for those who bear children. We need to feel safe from violence, crime, and injury in our homes, schools, workplaces, and communities. Free from addiction, trauma, and toxic stress. And have routine health care to prevent and diagnose illness, and to care for when the inevitable arises.
[For more on this story by Andrea Waner, go to https://www.communitycommons.o...s-for-health-safety/]
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