INSIGHT & INSPIRATION FROM APHA’S 2012 MIDYEAR MEETING

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20 Survive All In This Friends Prevention, Strategies & Thrive Together For Health Opportunity & Equity for Health convenience stores. However, the new resources are also allowing public health practitioners to pursue a health-in-all-policies approach — “finally, public health is getting a seat at the table with the broader policymakers. This is the beginning of the health-in-all-policies philosophy we’re trying to permeate through the state,” Engel told attendees. For example, in North Carolina’s Pitt County, community health has been officially identified as a goal in the county’s 2030 land-use plan. CTG funds are also promoting linkages between community health resources and clinical preventive services “in a way that really puts boots on the ground,” Engel said. “This is real transformational change for public health in North Carolina, to be working closely with our clinical partners and doing the things we know work on a population basis, but in the clinic,” he said. The North Carolina health department is using a regional approach to its CTG work, leveraging existing regional infrastructures. For example, workers in existing Area Health Education Center regions are partnering with clinical practices to implement Million Hearts. Using such a regional approach means North Carolina’s CTG work can have the farthest reach possible. For instance, the state’s Mecklenburg and Wake counties were not funded during the first round of CTG grants. But because the state is taking a regional approach to CTG work, the two large communities still have a seat at the table and will be able to take advantage of new efforts even without direct funding. “Leveraging our existing infrastructure is really the only way we can go about this in such a large state,” Engel said. From sessions 2004/2009, Innovations in Community Prevention, June 27 STEPS FOR ACTION: • HELP bring public health and medicine back together again. Health care systems are busy working to meet new ACA directives and are realizing that communitybased solutions will be key. • LEVERAGE existing public health structures and resources to make the most out of new ACA prevention and public health funds. Use new grant funding to build capacity outside of traditional public health services.
Survive All In This Friends Prevention, Strategies & Thrive Together For Health Opportunity & Equity For Health 3FRIENDS FOR HEALTH: THE IMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS “If you want to be understood, seek first to understand.” — Lydia Ogden, director, CDC’s Health Reform Strategy, Policy and Coordination Office
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