March 22, 2022
The Community Health Corner
Submitted by Stephanie Gutierrez
Community health uses science-based approaches for the greatest health benefit to the greatest number of people by addressing the social, economic, and structural drivers that impact health. The National Extension Framework for Health Equity and Well-being recommends health equity and community approaches to ensure that every person has the opportunity to "attain his or her full health potential," and no one is "disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances." The following tools and resources can be used to further improve health equity and well-being for communities.
READ NOW: Poverty in early childhood correlates with lower school achievement and reduced earnings as an adult. It is also associated with differences in brain structure and electrical brain activity. Read Poverty reduction alters infant brain activity to learn how researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) examine how interventions to relieve poverty can affect how infants’ brains develop.
USE NOW: TFAH's report - Ready or Not 2022: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism provides an annual assessment of states' level of readiness to protect the public's health during emergencies. This year's report placed fewer states in the top performance tier for public health preparedness as compared to the 2021 report. The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates the critical need to invest in public health infrastructure and the social determinants of health.
REGISTER NOW: Join the HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion on MAR 31, 2022, from 1 - 2 p.m. EST for the first in the new Healthy People 2030 Webinar Series. Presenters will review Healthy People 2020 successes and challenges, discuss the transition to Healthy People 2030, and detail how they built on the knowledge from previous decades. New and emerging issues, and specific issues of national importance, including health equity and disparities, will also be explored. Register Here.
For more information, contact Elaine Johannes, ejohanne@ksu.edu; and Stephanie Gutierrez, smgutier@k-state.edu.