Welcome

Indexing Services

Editor:
Mary Ann Feldheim, University of Central Florida
Email the editor: jhhsa@ucf.edu
Email the journal: jhhsa@spaef.org

Editorial Board

Affiliated with:
School of Public Administration at the University of Central Florida
ASPA's Section on Health and Human Services Administration

The Journal of Health and Human Services Administration adopts a broad perspective that addresses the creation of healthy communities across five (5) dimensions: Civic Health, Environmental Health, Individual Health, Community Health, and Economic Health.

The journal’s objectives for this approach are to:

Create dialog that is interdisciplinary in nature and brings new approaches to long-standing community issues.
Revisit traditional conceptions and indicators of community health to explore both a sustainable philosophy and reflect the five identified dimensions.
Re-conceptualize resiliency to include gradual and chronic threats to community health and apply it to existing frameworks of resilience research.
Promote a multi-dimensional, holistic approach toward community health based on sustainability and resiliency.

Healthy Communities Model

Communities are in various states of health. They can be distressed, vulnerable, and stable. Traditional models of community health focus on raising health levels from a distressed or vulnerable state to a stable situation. However, these models ignore the need to ensure that healthy communities become sustainable and resilient ones. The following model demonstrates that healthy communities can fall back into a distressed state without attention to generate a sustained health that is resilient to shocks to stability. It is important to note that resiliency should be conceptualized beyond emergency situations, as many current external threats to healthy communities are gradual or chronic in nature.

The Healthy Community Model is a holistic approach to community health, which includes the dimensions of: