Lewis County Department of Health and Hospital(s) Prevention Agenda 2013-2018 Priority Selection and Partners
Lewis County Prevention Agenda 2013-2018 Tracking Indicator Dashboard
I. Local County Department of Health - Priorities, Partners, Goals and Interventions
Community Health Improvement Plan
Prevention Agenda Priorities:
Preventing Chronic Diseases: View the State Action Plan for this priority
- Access to High-Quality Chronic Disease Preventive Care and Management in Clinical and Community Settings.
Promote Healthy Women, Infants and Children: View the State Action Plan for this priority
- Maternal and Infant Health
- Child Health
- Reproductive, Preconception and Inter-Conception Health
Promote Mental Health and Prevent Substance Abuse: View the State Action Plan for this priority
- Prevent Substance Abuse and other Mental Emotional Behavioral Disorders.
Partners:
- Local Health Department
- Hospital
- Business Organizations/Corporations
- Philanthropies
- Schools
- Faith-Based Organizations
- Media Organizations
- Mental/Behavioral Agencies/Organizations
- Social Services
- CBO-Youth Focused
- Clinical or community based lifestyle change program
- Clinical or community based lifestyle change Referral Agency
- Local Coalition
Goals:
- Create community environments that promote and support healthy food and beverage choices and physical activity
- Expand the role of health care and health service providers and insurers in obesity prevention
- Increase the proportion of NYS babies who are breastfed
- Increase the proportion of NYS children who receive comprehensive well-child-care in accordance with AAP guidelines
- Prevention of unintended and adolescent pregnancy
- Prevent suicides among youth and adults
Interventions:
- Increasing the availability, accessibility and use of evidence-based interventions in self-care management in clinical and community settings
- Improve availability/consumption of fresh produce; healthier and fresh food choices at food pantries; community and health care-based nutrition counseling provided; CDSMP and DPP Programs made available
- Work with paraprofessionals to reinforce health education and health care service utilization and enhance social support to high-risk pregnant women
- Nurses in all types of practices discuss intended-ness of pregnancy at patient visits; educational campaigns to increase knowledge of the importance of preconception education and health care revisits; universal screening of pregnant women or new familie s including the benefits of breastfeeding and well child visits
- Build community coalitions that advance the State's 'Suicide as a Never Event' through promotion and prevention activities
- Development and maintenance of a Suicide Prevention Coalition in LC; MEB screening at hospital's inpatient and outpatient programs
Local Health Department Contact
- Name: Penny Ingham
- Phone: (315) 376-5453
- Email Address:pingham@lcpublichealth.org