Community Health Priority: Prevent Chronic Disease


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  • Focus Area 1: Healthy Eating & Food Security
  • Focus Area 4: Preventive Care & Management
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Focus Area 1: Healthy Eating & Food Security

 
Goal 1.3: Increase Food Security

Interventions

  • Increase the availability fruit and vegetable incentive programs
  • Screen for food insecurity, facilitate and actively support referrals

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Focus Area 4: Preventive care & management

 
Goal 4.1: Increase cancer screening rates

Interventions

  • Work with health care providers/clinics to put systems in place for patient and provider screening reminders (e.g., letter, postcards, emails, recorded phone messages, electronic health records [EHR] alerts).
  • Work with clinical providers to assess how many of their patients receive screening services and provide them feedback on their performance.
  • Remove structural barriers to cancer screening such as providing flexible clinic hours, offering cancer screening in non-clinical settings (mobile mammography vans, flu clinics), offering on-site translation, transportation,

 
Goal 4.2: Increase early detection of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, prediabetes and obesity

Interventions

  • Promote strategies that improve the detection of undiagnosed hypertension in health systems.
  • Promote testing for prediabetes and risk for future diabetes in asymptomatic people in adults of any age with obesity and overweight and who have one or more additional risk factors for diabetes.

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