Ohio Health Quality Improvement Institute

Promoting Health through Personal Responsibility and Disease and Injury Prevention

Summary:   Investment in strategies to promote healthier lifestyles (physical activity, better nutrition, freedom from tobacco use) in order to reduce the incidence of chronic disease and injury is essential to transform a system focused on treatment to one focused on health.  The increase in chronic diseases, such as diabetes, can be attributed in large part to the rise in obesity and overweight, while injury is associated with more risky behaviors.  Discussion in this focus area should explore and identify the approaches that would most efficiently - - in terms of time, resources, and potential impact - - move Ohio to a healthier state.  

Promoting Health through Personal Responsibility and Disease and Injury Prevention

Focus Group Strategy Recommendations 

 UPDATED - Health Promotion Chart.pdf

Please use the following criteria to evaluate the potential strategies Criteria for Strategies.pdf

Pre-reading

 School Health Policies and Programs Study 2006.pdf 

 factsht08.pdf 

 Best Practices Tobacco Control.pdf 

 Priorities Among Effective Clinical Preventive Services.pdf

 Prevention.pdf

Testimony by Medical Epidemiologist Leonard J. Paulozzi, M.D., M.P.H.

Cross-Cutting Issue Pre-readings

 Organizing the U.S. Health Care Delivery System for High Performance.pdf Please read the Executive Summary

Payment Reform

 Follow the Money_Payment Reform.pdf  Please read the Executive Summary

 Getting What We Pay For.pdf

 Payment reform preread.pdf

HIT

 HITRoadmapExSum.pdf

 HIT Crosscutting PreRead.pdf

Workforce

 HealthcareWorkforce.pdf

 Physician Supply.pdf  Please read the Executive Summary

Disparities

 Mead_racialethnicdisparities_chartbook_.pdf  

Closing the Divide: How Medical Homes Promote Equity in Health Care: Results From The Commonwealth Fund 2006 Health Care Quality Survey