Building it Together: A Safe and Healthy California for All
Let’s Get Healthy California provides an ongoing statewide collaborative and systematic approach for assessing and monitoring the health status of California, identifying and prioritizing opportunities for health improvement, and promoting collective action towards comprehensive solutions that address the root causes of California’s toughest health challenges.
How can we advance a safe and healthy California for all?
Power of Prevention
Promote new and improved policies, systems, and environments that improve health and advance health equity.
Advance Health Equity
Health Equity is when all people have “the opportunity to ‘attain their full health potential’ and no one is ‘disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of their social position or other socially determined circumstance.”
Promote Collective Action
Tackle complex challenges by channeling efforts of diverse partners toward a common focus using common measures of success.
Leverage Data and Innovation
Use data to identify and target disparities then inform collective action.
What is the Role of Let’s Get Healthy California?
The State Health Assessment (SHA) provides a snapshot of health for the entire population, across a range of conditions and factors. Let’s Get Healthy California – the SHA – identifies key health issues and contributing factors, elevates disparities and inequities, and identifies assets and resources that can be mobilized to address these health improvement opportunities. The SHA provides a strong foundation to inform program and policy planning and development. Learn more about the State Health Assessment.
The state health improvement plan (SHIP) connects a wide variety of plans, programs, and initiatives across California, at both the state and local level. Let’s Get Healthy California (LGHC) – the SHIP – lays out an overarching framework and strategic approach to unify efforts across the state that are working to address shared priorities identified within LGHC. Learn more about the State Health Improvement Plan.
The Emerging Issues (EI) process serves as an extension of the State Health Assessment (SHA) and the State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) by building capacity to respond to emerging issues and cross-cutting priorities that arise between the SHA/SHIP cycle. The EI process identifies potential health concerns, examines these topics with subject matter experts, determines the public health role in these issues, and plans next steps as it relates to intervention and/or adoption into the broader SHA/SHIP framework.
Background – At a Glance
Let’s Get Healthy California is often associated with the Task Force Report and the Statewide Innovation Challenges and Conferences. However, since its adoption as the state health assessment and improvement plan, it has also been leveraged as an asset for identifying and elevating cross-cutting health priorities and emerging issues at the state and local level.
Let’s Get Healthy California Belongs to All of Us
Let’s Get Healthy California happens through collective impact;
sharing and inspiring ideas, and connecting people, stories, and data.
We all have a role to play in tracking and driving the health of California.
Together we can make California the healthiest state in the nation.
What role will YOU play?
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