For additional resources, visit the American Public Health Association’s webpage on Health in All Policies. Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governmentsĭeveloped by the American Public Health Association, the Public Health Institute, and the California Department of Public Health with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this guide is geared towards state and local government leaders who want to use cross-sector collaboration to promote healthy environments. The Health in All Policies Resource Center provides resources and tools that support a collaborative approach to health promotion that recognizes the importance of including health considerations when making policy decisions. The broad goal of achieving better health has resulted in a call to action across the country that encompasses everything from promoting healthy behaviors to creating environments that make it easier to exercise and access healthy foods.įor more information about the National Prevention Strategy and the National Prevention Council, visit the Surgeon General’s website here. It integrates recommendations and actions across multiple settings to focus on both increasing the length of people’s lives and ensuring that their lives are healthy and productive. The National Prevention Strategy provides a HiAP framework to guide our nation in the most effective and achievable means for improving health and well-being. The HiAP approach may also be effective in identifying gaps in evidence and achieving health equity.
The HiAP approach provides one way to achieve the National Prevention Strategy and Healthy People 2020 goals and enhance the potential for state, territorial, and local health departments to improve health outcomes. HiAP recognizes that health is created by a multitude of factors beyond healthcare and, in many cases, beyond the scope of traditional public health activities. It owes its success to a persistent focus at all levels of the organization on what matters most to those we serve and to those who serve beside us.Health in All Policies (HiAP) is a collaborative approach that integrates and articulates health considerations into policymaking across sectors to improve the health of all communities and people.
We also find ways to learn and innovate together through both local huddles and national conversations.The model has been operationalized across the system with the support of a cross-discipline, cross-continuum national structure. In living the model, we take meaningful action both by developing just-in-time solutions to problems close to the person/patient and by launching systematic actions on the macro level.
It gives direction to our human-to-human connections and enables us to listen as an organization to our voice-of-the- customer data. The model, which comprises a feedback loop with three steps-listen, take action, and learn together-guides both personal interactions and organizational change. As a large, nationally integrated, mission-driven healthcare system, Ascension recognizes the need for a multifaceted approach to communication-one that facilitates both national alignment and local action while advancing the Quadruple Aim of enhancing the person/patient experience, improving population health, reducing costs, and improving the work life of healthcare providers.The Ascension Person and Family Experience Model provides a framework to support a comprehensive communications strategy that encompasses our care teams, leaders, and communities.
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