Item B: Lane County Community Health Assessment Plan

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*Risk factors or the actual reasons people die. For example, tobacco smoking is the most common actual cause of death from lung cancer. These data are crucial for monitoring the reasons why people die and for targeting where, when, and how health resources should be expended to reduce morbidity and early mortality. This Lane County wide community health improvement plan is the product of a collaborative effort by Lane County community members, Lane County Public Health, PeaceHealth, Trillium Community Health Plans (Lane County's Coordinated Care Organization coordinating health care for local Medicaid beneficiaries), and the United Way of Lane County. In order to collaboratively develop this community health improvement plan, the team led an extensive community health assessment and community health improvement planning process over the last year (May 2012 -April 2013). Please see the companion document, Lane County's Community Health Assessment Version 1.0, for further details on the process and data collected. Based on the review of local public health data, it was found that there are more similarities than differences in the health of Lane County residents and that of the rest of the state. For this reason, and in order to align efforts at the state and local level to increase impact, the local team has worked to closely match our community health improvement plan priorities and strategies with those included in the State of Oregon's health improvement plan. We would like to thank the state's community health improvement planning team for their leadership in this work. In addition to aligning priority areas and strategies, much of the background language for each of the five health priority areas in this plan was pulled directly from the State of Oregon's Health Improvement Plan (The 2012 Oregon's Healthy Future, Version 1.0; A Plan for Empowering Communities).. We would also like to credit the state team for the work they have done in drafting that and other language we have borrowed from their plan. Based upon the review of local community health data from a variety of sources, these five priority areas are offered to focus the attention and work of policy- makers and public, private and nonprofits organizations over the course of the implementation of this three year plan (July 2013 — June 2016): 1. Advance and Improve Health Equity 2. Prevent and Reduce Tobacco Use 3. Slow the Increase of Obesity 4. Prevent and Reduce Substance Abuse and Mental Illness 5. Improve Access to Health Care These priorities were chosen based on which accomplishments would offer the greatest improvements in lifelong health, advance health equity, and promote equal access to conditions 5