Identify key characteristics of community-based action planning and discuss how this approach could enhance community health initiatives. Justify the benefits of the Healthy Cities and Communities Model strategies.

Discuss what are Leading Health Indicators (LHI) and how they serve to monitor and prevent major health concerns such as mental health, maternal and infant health, nutrition, and substance abuse.

Prior to working on the forum, review the following reference:

.McKenzie, J. F. Pinger, R. R., & Seabert, D. M. (2018). An introduction to community and public health (9th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Erwin, P. C., & Brownson, R. C. (2017). Scutchfield and Keck's principles of public health practice (4th ed.).