Blueprint For A Healthier America

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Total Pages : 98 pages
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Download or read book Healthier America 2013 written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Healthier America 2013: Strategies to Move from Sick Care to Health Care in the Next Four Years, TFAH provides the public, policymakers, public health officials and experts, partners from various sectors, and private and public organizations with an overview of the current status of a range of important public health policy areas, and identifies priority steps that should be taken to put prevention first in our health care system. The report provides critical information to the broad and diverse groups involved in public health; encourages greater transparency and accountability of the system; and outlines high impact recommendations to ensure the public health system meets today's needs and works across boundaries to meet its goals. Strategies must build on the progress that has been made and involve a wide range of partners to be successful. The two overall goals should be to: Advance the nation's public health system. This includes establishing a set of core capabilities; restructuring federal public health programs; and ensuring that public health departments at all levels receive adequate funding to focus on activities they are uniquely qualified to deliver; Build partnerships within and outside of the health field. Public health departments play a central role as chief health strategists for communities but cannot do all that is needed to improve their community's own health. To be effective in improving health in neighborhoods, workplaces and schools, strategies must involve a series of common-sense partnerships, including: 1) health care payers - both public and private insurers; 2) health care providers - through expanding health care models to include community prevention and working with hospitals to increase engagement in neighborhood prevention strategies; and 3) sectors beyond the health care system, such as education and transportation. The Healthier America 2013 report features a series of case studies from across the country that illustrate these strategies in action. These examples demonstrate how implementing the prevention initiatives and programs laid out in this report - through successful partnerships with health care payers, providers and other sectors - can provide a significant return on investment in terms of improved health and cost containment. They demonstrate how effective, evidence-based programs are delivering results - preventing and controlling a range of chronic diseases, including some of the highest cost, most preventable conditions like type 2 diabetes and asthma. In addition, this report highlights a series of 10 of TFAH's on-going public health priority initiatives: the obesity epidemic; preventing tobacco use and exposure; health and aging; addressing racial, ethnic and economic disparities; maternal and infant health; health and the environment; injury prevention; infectious disease prevention; public health emergency preparedness; and food safety. This report is a resource for policymakers, the public health community, the health care system, a range of public and private partners and the public, as we begin to move prevention strategies forward and build on the progress the country has already achieved.