February 14, 2023
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 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 by working with communities to achieve the nation’s Healthy People 2030 objectives.
JOIN NOW: Join the Annual Maternal Mental Health FORUM, being held virtually March 22-24. The FORUM is the conference where healthcare and policy change agents come to convene, collaborate and take in cutting-edge content to close gaps in maternal and mental healthcare. Learn more and register here.
READ NOW: CDC recently released new state fact sheets for addressing excessive alcohol use. The state fact sheets highlight the public health problem of excessive alcohol use and the status of implementing evidence-based alcohol policy solutions in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The findings come from multiple data sources and are presented in an easy-to-read format that can be printed and shared with individuals or state-level affiliates interested in the prevention of excessive drinking. To explore your state’s data, visit Addressing Excessive Alcohol Use: State Fact Sheets (cdc.gov).
USE NOW: The Congressional District Health Dashboard, developed by the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is now live! The Dashboard will equip users with first-of-its-kind data on health and the conditions that affect health in every congressional district across the country. This new Dashboard site builds on the experience creating and managing the City Health Dashboard and provides important data on health and equity, but now calculated to the congressional district level.
For more information, contact Elaine Johannes, ejohanne@ksu.edu; and Stephanie Gutierrez, smgutier@k-state.edu.