June 28, 2022
The Community Health Corner
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 everyone’s health. The National Extension Framework for Health Equity and Well-being recommends using community development practices 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 improve health equity and well-being working with communities to achieve the nation’s Healthy People 2030 objectives.
REGISTER NOW: The office of Primary Care and Rural Health, KDHE offers a webinar each month on rural health topics. On July 14, 1 - 2 p.m., the webinar is on Ag Stress: Focusing on Farmer’s Mental Health and features the developers of the Kansas Ag Stress program in the KS Department of Agriculture. For a schedule of the Rural Health webinars and to register click here.
PLAN NOW: Save October 28, to attend the Kansas Health Equity Summit in Topeka featuring the Unlocking Implicit Bias workshop by Dr. Jabraan Pasha, University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine. The summit is sponsored by the KFMC Health Improvement Partners. Updates will be provided as Summit details are announced.
DISCOVER NOW: According to Paul Reed, MD, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Director, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion encourages organizations to use the national Healthy People 2030 Custom List feature to better align with national priorities and strategies. At the HP2030 website, find data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade, including 10-year targets for several types of cancers and related preventive services. Visit the Healthy People 2030 site and build your own custom list to use in local health-related work.
For more information, contact Elaine Johannes, ejohanne@ksu.edu; and Stephanie Gutierrez, smgutier@k-state.edu.