MBI 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Community Organizing, Healthy Choice, Health Equity
11 Oct 2016
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Community organizing/building to improve health: community health problems range from small to complex, community organizing. Develop and implement strategies to address problems/goals. Ohio public health initiatives: chronic disease prevention, promoting healthy lifestyles, violence and injury prevention, health equity. Deaths from chronic disease in ohio: heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, stroke, diabetes, and kidney disease account for 62% of all ohio deaths. Spend more per person on healthcare than all but 17 other states. Black men had the highest chronic disease death rate in 2012. 41% of these deaths occurring before age 65. Significant variation in death rates from chronic diseases in different counties. Some specific initiatives to promote healthier communities in ohio: creating healthy communities (chc): making the healthy choice the easy choice. Mission: prevent and reduce chronic disease statewide. Improve access to and affordability of healthy food. Funded by the preventive health and health services block grant from the.
