The California Healthy Places Index is made available by the Public Health Alliance of Southern California. Their mission is to “make health equity and racial justice a reality” through collaboration and data (https://www.thepublichealthalliance.org/). They engage in advocacy and mobilization to generate this change. They are composed of a coalition of executives representing 10 local health jurisdictions in Southern California (including Long Beach, Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside, among others), an area they highlight as representing 60% of California’s population (with which they blur the boundaries between “California” and “Southern California”).
The alliance emphasizes pursuing equity using publicly available data and collaboration (with government agencies, legislators, hospitals, health plans, philanthropy, and community advocates). They present the Healthy Places Index (HPI) as a tool for exploring how life expectancy is impacted by community conditions.
More specifically, the HPI was created by a steering committee made up of epidemiologists and 3 public health coalitions led by the alliance.
