Access to affordable, culturally responsive, and timely health care can help prevent diseases and detect issues sooner, enabling people to live longer, healthier lives. Looking at individuals' access to clinical care helps us understand why some communities may be healthier than others. In fact, access to healthcare is called out as one of the social determinants of health by Healthy People 2030.  The healthcare partners of the Beyond Health steering committee are working collaboratively on two health priorities which are closely related to access to healthcare: diabetes and mental health.

Mental health has been a past CHIP priority in Brown County and this work will continue under the equitable access priority.  Similarly, talking about diabetes early detection, management, and prevention is not new for Brown County.  Calling out diabetes rates in our community and developing plans to ensure access for historically marginalized community members is at the center of efforts to increase connections with medical providers and needed care in Brown County.

For more information, or to join in these efforts, please contact Jody.Anderson@bellin.org.