Fostering healthy neighborhoods: Alignment across the community development, financial well-being and health sectors

Substantial evidence links financial well-being and health. As income and wealth increase or decrease, so does health. Individuals and families with more wealth and higher incomes are better able to access the material and physical conditions that facilitate good health and are less likely to suffer from the mental and physical effects of financial stress caused by income volatility, insufficient savings, and unmanageable debt.

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Build Healthy Places Network (a program of the Public Health Institute), Prosperity Now, and the Financial Health Network partnered to explore how to foster alignment across the community development, public health, healthcare, and financial well-being sectors. This brief presents key findings and recommendations from our research.