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Creating healthy, safe, livable communities: Core strategies for local public health departments
The Santa Clara County (CA) Public Health Department Center for Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention (CDIP), in collaboration with other governmental agencies and community partners, addresses key factors that influence health by working to create access to healthy food, physical activity, safe and active transportation, and tobacco and smoke free environments, focusing on communities with the greatest burden for chronic disease and injury.
Approach
CDIP developed an integration plan focused on three core strategies: policy, environmental and systems change; supporting change through information and expertise; and engaging, educating and empowering communities. The integration plan was developed through interactive staff meetings and an on-line staff survey.
Results
The integration plan helped move CDIP beyond single-issue funding silos to integrated activities across program areas under the umbrella of the three core strategies. The integration plan prioritizes goals and objectives that cut across CDIP’s program areas; identifies measurable approaches to be replicated across programs; defines CDIP’s role in collaborative activities with a broad array of partners; articulates opportunities for enhancing staff and community partner leadership capacity; defines opportunities to leverage resources, and addresses disseminating best practices.
Discussion
Addressing the complex underlying conditions that hinder or support health in communities requires comprehensive, integrated approaches. Local public health departments are challenged to move from working within scopes defined by funding sources to working beyond these silos at integrated, synergistic levels that cut across individual programs. This session will inform local public health departments and their partners of a planning model for identifying core strategies, integrating activities across program areas, and working in partnership with communities.
Learning Areas:
Chronic disease management and preventionPlanning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Program planning
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Public health or related public policy
Learning Objectives:
Discuss a strategic planning model local public health departments can employ to integrate chronic disease prevention activities
Keyword(s): Chronic Disease Prevention, Local Public Health Agencies
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I co-led the development of Santa Clara County's Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention integration plan focused on policy, environmental and systems change; supporting change through information and expertise; and engaging, educating and empowering communities. I have extensive experience working with local public health departments and other partners on planning for chronic disease prevention and health promotion.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.