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13 <br />WHAT IS HEALTH IN ALL POLICIES? <br />Health in All Policies is a collaborative approach to improving the health of all people by <br />incorporating health considerations into decision - making across sectors and policy areas. <br />The goal of Health in All Policies is to ensure that decision - makers are informed about the health, equity, and <br />sustainability consequences of various policy options during the policy development process. A Health in All <br />Policies approach identifies the ways in which decisions in multiple sectors affect health, and how better health <br />can support the goals of these multiple sectors. It engages diverse governmental partners and stakeholders to <br />work together to promote health, equity, and sustainability, and simultaneously advance other goals such as <br />promoting job creation and economic stability, transportation access and mobility, a strong agricultural system, <br />and educational attainment. There is no one "right" way to implement a Health in All Policies approach, and <br />there is substantial flexibility in process, structure, scope, and membership. <br />FIVE KEY ELEMENTS OF HEALTH IN ALL POLICIES <br />Promote health, equity, and sustainability. Health in All Policies promotes health, equity, and <br />sustainability through two avenues: (1) incorporating health, equity, and sustainability into specific policies, <br />programs, and processes, and (2) embedding health, equity, and sustainability considerations into government <br />decision - making processes so that healthy public policy becomes the normal way of doing business. <br />Support intersectoral collaboration. Health in All Policies brings together partners from the many <br />sectors that play a major role in shaping the economic, physical, and social environments in which people live, <br />and therefore have an important role to play in promoting health, equity, and sustainability. A Health in All <br />Policies approach focuses on deep and ongoing collaboration. <br />Benefit multiple partners. Health in All Policies values co- benefits and win -wins. Health in All Polices <br />initiatives endeavor to simultaneously address the policy and programmatic goals of both public health and other <br />agencies by finding and implementing strategies that benefit multiple partners. <br />Engage stakeholders. Health in All Policies engages many stakeholders, including community members, <br />policy experts, advocates, the private sector, and funders, to ensure that work is responsive to community needs <br />and to identify policy and systems changes necessary to create meaningful and impactful health improvements. <br />Create structural or process change. Over time, Health in All Policies work leads to institutionalizing a <br />Health in All Policies approach throughout the whole of government. This involves permanent changes in how <br />agencies relate to each other and how government decisions are made, structures for intersectoral collaboration, <br />and mechanisms to ensure a health lens in decision - making processes. <br />y <br />i <br />r�r <br />1 <br />