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Interfaith Public Health Network

WEBDecember 29, 2020. IPHNetwork. Tweets by @IPHNetwork. A healthy society is one that takes care of everyone's health. Pope Francis. Love and justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters. — Rev. angel Kyodo williams.

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What Makes People Healthy Or Less So

WEBPublic health experts call these the underlying determinants of health. While the basic concepts are pretty easy to understand, some quotes may help explain it better: “When it comes to your health, your ZIP code is often more important than your genetic code.”. “If we can’t live in healthy communities, we can’t be healthy.”. "In

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How People of Faith Are Building Healthier Communities

WEBFaith groups have been important partners in many public health policy victories.. Here are just a few examples: Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT). Faith United Against Tobacco. Healthy Dine Nation Act. Fair Wages for New Yorkers. Building Alcohol-Ad Free Transit (BAAFT). There are also many current policy campaigns where faith partners are …

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Healthy Diné Nation Act

WEBHealthy Diné Nation Act. Beginning on April 1, 2015 the Diné (Navajo) Nation began imposing a 2% junk food sales tax within Nation borders, defining junk foods as those with "minimal-to-no nutritional value,” including sugar-sweetened beverages and prepackaged and non-prepackaged snacks low in essential nutrients and high in salt, …

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Equitable and Just Climate Platform

WEBThe Equitable and Just National Climate Platform advances the goals of economic, racial, climate, and environmental justice to improve the public health and well-being of all communities, while tackling the climate crisis. Environmental justice advocates and national environmental organizations - including several faith and interfaith organizations - have …

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The Movement for Equality Starts with Health Care

WEBI have served as an organizer with faith communities for the past ten years. While I have worked on issues ranging from environmental and food justice to housing and rights for undocumented persons, I have found that the area of health care is often overlooked in our spiritual call to a just and equitable world.

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Gazing Upstream: Interfaith Public Health Network Blog

WEBHow high amounts of sugar continue to impact New Yorkers' health, and what the Interfaith Public Health Network is doing about it. Many fountain drinks served by fast-food restaurant chains contain more than a day’s worth of added sugar.Sugary drinks and foods are harmful to the American diet because they can lead to a myriad of chronic diseases and …

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Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence

WEBFaiths United to Prevent Gun Violence is a diverse coalition of denominations and faith-based organizations - including include Jewish, Sikh, and Christian partners - united by the call of their faiths to confront America’s gun violence epidemic and to rally support for policies that reduce death and injury from gunfire.. They support immediate legislative …

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Faith United Against Tobacco

WEBFaith United Against Tobacco (FUAT) was formed in January 2002 to assist the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (TFK) in moving important federal tobacco control legislation - namely, legislation giving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate tobacco (following a U.S. Supreme Court case that found that it would not …

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