The Healthy Hawai'i Initiative: insights from two decades of building a culture of health in a multicultural state

• Main Authors: Joy Agner (Author), Catherine M. Pirkle (Author), Lola Irvin (Author), Jay E. Maddock (Author), Opal Vanessa Buchthal (Author), Jessica Yamauchi (Author), Ranjani Starr (Author), Tetine Sentell (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The Healthy Hawai'i Initiative was created in 2000 with tobacco settlement funds as a theory-based statewide effort to promote health-supporting environments through systems and policy change. Still active today, it is imbedded explicitly in a multi-sectoral, social ecologic...