Healthy Business Coalition Case Studies: How Companies Promote Community Health

How can businesses take action to promote community health? What social determinants of health should companies take into consideration when building strategies?

Download all Case Studies

These case studies provide examples of how private-sector companies have worked to build health equity in communities, develop employee health and well-being programs, and provide metrics for assessing positive impact on population health. They have accomplished this through programs in community and stakeholder engagement, workforce and operations, products and services, and policy and advocacy.

Scopes of Business Action

Healthy Businesses programs span four scopes of action:

Direct Impact

Workforce and Operations

Corporate work environment and business practices’ impact on health for direct and indirect employees, as well as workers in a company’s supply chain.

Products and Services

Health impacts and behaviors resulting from the customer and consumer use of a company’s products and services.

Enabling Influence

Community Engagement

Company efforts and collaborations toward improving the health outcomes of a company’s key communities and focus populations.

Policy and Advocacy

Policy and advocacy efforts to support regulation and cultural norms that promote healthy behaviors and health equity.


Case Studies

Case Study Filter by Program

CVS Health: Be the First

CVS Health and its foundation are supporting leading anti-tobacco and youth organizations across the country to deliver comprehensive education, advocacy, tobacco control and healthy behavior programming.

CVS Health


Program:
Community Engagement 
Policy and Advocacy 




Google.org: CareMessage

CareMessage is a text message based patient outreach platform that improves access to care for underserved and underinsured communities. The service provides tools and resources to educate patients to manage and prevent health impacts.

Google.org


Program:
Community Engagement 
Products and Services 




Facebook, Inc.: Catalyst Housing Fund

Facebook is investing in affordable housing projects near its corporate headquarters in partnership with Envision Transform Build, East Palo Alto, and Menlo Park, California.

Facebook, Inc.


Program:
Community Engagement 
Policy and Advocacy 




Sodexo: Communities for Health

Communities for Health aims to improve employee health through evidence based wellness programs, which focus on chronic disease prevention and intervention. Leveraging a plus-one model, programs are available to family members, thus enriching the local community.

Sodexo


Program:
Workforce and Operations 




Etsy, Inc.: Economic Security for the Gig Economy

Etsy is working to foster economic security for its sellers and other workers in the gig economy via targeted research on the future of work, and supporting advocacy to U.S. policymakers.

Etsy, Inc.


Program:
Policy and Advocacy 





Program:
Workforce and Operations 




The Walt Disney Company: Healthy Living

Disney’s Healthy Living program seeks to improve child nutrition and well-being by providing food options in parks, products in stores and online, recipes, and physical activity ideas which meet Disney’s nutrition guidelines.

The Walt Disney Company


Program:
Community Engagement 
Products and Services 




Kaiser Permanente: Healthy Workforce

The Healthy Workforce campaign takes a holistic approach to wellness, encouraging physical and mental well-being for employees and local communities via targeted programming, health monitoring, and financial and interpersonal resources.

Kaiser Permanente


Program:
Community Engagement 
Workforce and Operations 




The Consumer Goods Forum: One For Good Initiative

The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) members have partnered with a local public-private collaborative to support community wellness by empowering consumers to make healthier choices.

The Consumer Goods Forum


Program:
Community Engagement 
Products and Services 
Workforce and Operations 




CVS Health: Project Health

Project Health provides comprehensive health assessments that detect early risks for chronic conditions in multicultural communities. Free screenings are offered at CVS Pharmacy locations to residents who are uninsured or underinsured.

CVS Health


Program:
Community Engagement 




Genentech, Inc.: Resilient Beginnings Collaborative

The Resilient Beginnings Collaborative provides financial and informational resources to safety net health care organizations in the Bay Area to prevent trauma and build resilience in a pediatric setting.

Genentech, Inc.


Program:
Community Engagement 




Etsy, Inc.: Seller Health Insurance

Etsy partners with Stride Health to help self-employed sellers on its platform access health insurance.

Etsy, Inc.


Program:
Workforce and Operations 




Uber: Uber Health

Uber Health is a HIPAA compliant technology solution that helps patients and caregivers get to and from care. Providers also use Uber Health to help get crucial staff to work.

Uber


Program:
Community Engagement 
Products and Services