Factors that influence the improvement of health include many different things, including the social determinants of health which make up 80% of a persons health. Social Determinants include things such as housing, food access, economic stability, neighborhood and physical environmennt, education, and community and social context. The health care system only impacts 20% of a persons health, which is why Becker County Energize focuses on Community.
What are the factors that would cause Becker County to rank highly in poor health outcomes?
What are the factors that would cause Becker County to rank highly in health outcomes?
Building Healthy Communities through Policy, System and Environmental Change:
1. Policy Changes: Written statements of organizational position, decision, or course of action including ordinances, resolutions, mandates, guidelines or rules. Can include states, counties, districts, cities, orgs/bussinesses, groups etc.
2. System change: Changes in organizational procedures including the creation of services, increasing access to services, improving stewardship and quality of service.
3. Environmental Change: Improving observable changes in built, economic, and social environments.
1. Improve resiliency of youth in Becker County through: improving access to MH/SUD services, improving built environment, improving MH/SUD policy changes in schools, engaging youth in meaningful activities, and public education campaigns
2. Decrease the negative impact of Substance Use Disorder on individuals, families, groups and communities through collaboration by: improving the resiliency of youth, increasing access to treatment and harm reduction services for SUD/OUD, improving access to resource navigation and recovery programing, and implementing policies that protect youth from harm
3. Improving access to child care to enhance child and economic outcomes: improving access tby engaging churches to build out child care facilities, supporting child care providers in access to education needs, supporting child care provider skill development and work force development.