Columbia County Department of Health and Hospital(s) Prevention Agenda 2013-2018 Priority Selection and Partners

Columbia 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.
  • Reduce Obesity in Children and Adults.

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
  • Colleges/Universities
  • Schools
  • Mental/Behavioral Agencies/Organizations
  • Local Coalition

Goals:

  • Create community environments that promote and support healthy food and beverage choices and physical activity
  • Prevent childhood obesity through early child-care and schools
  • Increase breastfeeding
  • Prevent initiation of tobacco use by New York youth and young adults, especially among low socioeconomic status (SES) populations
  • Prevent, non-medical use of prescription pain relievers drugs by youth

Interventions:

  • Encourage the increase of physical activity into the school day; encourage breast-feeding; establish joint use agreements to use school space afterhours, support Healthy Monday programs, support health screenings related to cardiovascular health, Promote E at Smart NY
  • Promote policies and implement programs which aim to decrease availability and visibility of tobacco products
  • Promote Quitline, online resources, and "apps" to assist individuals with quitting
  • Conduct media campaigns aimed at tobacco use prevention
  • Continue to implement ATUPA surveillance program
  • Work with employers on smoke-free grounds
  • Promote tobacco prevention through the Healthy Mondays program
  • Work with community partners to educate adolescents at high schools and adults in the community about the dangers of cigarette smoking
  • Reduce the abuse of prescription drugs by high school students as measured by a school-based survey administered in the 2012/2013 year and re-administered in 2016/2016
  • The Columbia-Greene Controlled Substance Task Force will continue its work to decrease prescription drug abuse in Columbia and Greene Counties
  • Strategies include: educating community members, students, medical providers about the dangers of non-medical use of prescription drugs; promoting community collection opportunities for unused prescription drugs; and linking community members to substa nce abuse treatment

Local Health Department Contact

II. Hospitals - Priorities, Partners, Goals and Interventions

Columbia Memorial Hospital

Community Service Plan

Prevention Agenda Priorities:

Preventing Chronic Diseases: View the State Action Plan for this priority

  • Reduce Illness, Disability and Death Related to Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure.

Promote Mental Health and Prevent Substance Abuse: View the State Action Plan for this priority

  • Prevent Substance Abuse and other Mental Emotional Behavioral Disorders.
  • Strengthen Infrastructure across Systems.

Partners:

  • Local Health Department
  • Hospital
  • Local Coalition

Goals:

  • Promote culturally relevant chronic disease self-management education
  • Strengthen infrastructure for MEB health promotion and MEB disorder prevention

Interventions:

  • Increasing the availability, accessibility and use of evidence-based interventions in self-care management in clinical and community settings
  • Promote mental, emotional and behavioral well -being in communities and By Dec 31, 2017, increase the number of primary care offices with cross-disciplinary collaborations that are sensitive to behavioral health symptomology and treatment

Hospital Contact