Health in All Policies
A Guide for State and Local Governments
“Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments” was written by the public health facilitators of the California Health in All Policies Task Force and is geared toward state and local government leaders who want to use intersectoral collaboration to promote healthy environments. There are many different ways to support intersectoral collaboration for health, and the guide provides a broad range of perspectives and examples.
In developing the guide, the authors reviewed the published peer-reviewed and gray literature and interviewed people working in formal and informal intersectoral collaborative government processes to promote health at local, state, and national levels across the United States and in other countries. While the guide reflects a wide variety of approaches to Health in All Policies, and provides local, state, and national case examples from across the United States and around the world, it draws heavily on the authors’ experiences in California and from documents produced by the California Health in All Policies Task Force. More information about the California experience is available in Part III.
