Document Type
Poster
Keywords
Public Health 3.0; Health outcomes; Resilience Catalyst (RC) program; Mesa County CO
Publication Date
Spring 2021
Abstract
About 80% of the factors affecting health outcomes lay outside of the domain of traditional clinical care.1 Public Health 3.0, the next level of public health practice, expands the reach of public health practitioners to address upstream factors traditionally outside the scope of health initiatives, such as housing affordability and educational attainment.2 Public Health 3.0 calls upon local health departments (LHDs) to be the core of this effort by creating impactful change through intentional cross-sectoral collaborations.2 The Resilience Catalyst (RC) program, designed by the Center for Community Resilience at the George Washington University, is being used to guide Public Health 3.0 implementation in Mesa County, Colorado, one of nine sites. The RC program uses a participatory approach to identify an adversity focus area, the systems associated with it, and determine an implementation plan for working with community partners. Since health is an outcome of complex combination of systems, a key component to the RC program is the creation of a local system dynamics model (SDM) to highlight interaction between factors affecting human health.3 The SDM is used to inform strategies for community action and policy change.
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Innovative Approaches to Creating a Public Health System Dynamics Model in Mesa County, CO
About 80% of the factors affecting health outcomes lay outside of the domain of traditional clinical care.1 Public Health 3.0, the next level of public health practice, expands the reach of public health practitioners to address upstream factors traditionally outside the scope of health initiatives, such as housing affordability and educational attainment.2 Public Health 3.0 calls upon local health departments (LHDs) to be the core of this effort by creating impactful change through intentional cross-sectoral collaborations.2 The Resilience Catalyst (RC) program, designed by the Center for Community Resilience at the George Washington University, is being used to guide Public Health 3.0 implementation in Mesa County, Colorado, one of nine sites. The RC program uses a participatory approach to identify an adversity focus area, the systems associated with it, and determine an implementation plan for working with community partners. Since health is an outcome of complex combination of systems, a key component to the RC program is the creation of a local system dynamics model (SDM) to highlight interaction between factors affecting human health.3 The SDM is used to inform strategies for community action and policy change.
