Kane County CHIP 2011-2016PHHE 469 Shqiponja Zeneli Chanelle Jones Irene CruzOmotola OkunugaKevin McKenzie

ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY - Irene

➢ pages number,

➢ subtitles listed

➢ table of contents

➢ “the rededication to achieving results”

ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY - Irene

Kane County DeKalb County

COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT

Follows IDPH requirements

Conducted a needs assessment every 5 years

Stated their goal to “identify areas where we can have the largest impact on improving the quality of life for all Kane residents- particularly the most vulnerable residents of your community- by reducing preventable sickness and death” (CHIP 2011)

Also described the process and outcomes of their listed health priorities

They did this by using the National Prevention Strategy

With this they planned and assessed their Community Themes and Strengths and Public Health Systems Priorities

COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT

Timmreck’s 10-Step Planning Model

Relates to the 3 core functions: assessment, policy development, assurance.

Step Two: Assessment, organization, resources and review of regulations

CHIP looked at internal and external assessments by affiliating local hospitals, United Way and the INC Board.

Step Four: Identifying, completing, and Evaluating the Needs Assessment

Help focus groups

Incorporated NIU Public Opinion Laboratory

Evaluated all data to come up with the major health priorities

Community Health Needs Assessment(cont.)

Comparison to DeKalb County’s IPLAN

CHIP had more data

DeKalb focused only on their 3 priorities, CHIP looked into other factors such as socioeconomic status, access to healthcare, and their surrounding environments.

DeKalb had a simpler layout due to not enough data within

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANCHIP includes four priorites which address six top health threats and complement the goals of the Kane county 2040 Plan.

6 health threats 4 priorities

● Obesity● Chronic Disease● Infant Mortality● Childhood Lead Poisoning● Communicable Disease● Poor Social & Emotional

Wellness

● Priorty#1: Support Health Behaviors that Promote Well-Being and Prevent Disease

● Priority #2: Increase access to High Quality, Holistic Preventive and Treatment Services Across the Health Care System

● Priority #3: Support & Create Health Promoting Neighborhoods, Towns & Cities

● Priority #4: Promote Social, Economic, and Educational Environments that Optimize Health

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLAN

Priority #1: Support Health Behaviors that Promote Well-Being and Prevent Disease

- Reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke

- increase access to, and consumption, of fresh fruits and veggies

- Coordinate the effective communication of tailored, accurate and actionable health information to Kane County residence across the lifespan.

- Create environments that prevents excessive consumption of alcohol

Community Health PlanPriority #2: Increase Access to High Quality, Holistic and Preventive and Treatment

Services Across the Healthcare System

- Increase the proportion of residents of all ages that have regular, ongoing sources of medical and dental care and residence who receive appropriate evidence-based clinical preventive services

- Focus culturally appropriate outreach and engagement efforts to eliminate racial disparities in health outcomes, especially in infant mortality.

- Enhance systems to support the prevention, early identification and treatment of communicable diseases in the community

- Enhance systems to support the prevention, early identification and evidence- based treatment of mental health

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLAN

Priority #3: Support & Create Health Promoting Neighborhoods, Towns & Cities

- Increase the availability and variety of high quality, safe and affordable housing compact, mixed use development.

- Institute “complete streets” types of policies to ensure that roadways are designed and operated with all users in mind including bicyclists, public transportation vehicle and riders, and pedestrians of all ages and abilities.

- Assure access to safe playgrounds, parks, trails and open space.

- Assure access to safe food and clean and safe water and air.

Community Health Plan

● Priority #4: Promote Social, Economic and Educational Environments that Optimize Health

- Increase the proportion of children who have high- quality early developmental support, especially in care and education

- Increase the proportion of Kane County young people that complete high school education.

- Increase the job skills and readiness of Kane County residents that are unemployed.

ACCESSIBILITY, ACCEPTABILITY, AVAILABILITY

Accessibility:

Finding the Iplan was rather difficult at first as they refer to there Iplan as the Chip plan.

The Kane County Community health information plan is found as a pdf file on the health department's main website page(www kanehealth.com)

Accessibility to other health assessments and information was easy to find and navigate on the county’s website.

Data tables and charts and graphs throughout the document and in the appendix’s made accessing information relevant to certain health topics easier and were easy to follow as well.

ACCESSIBILITY, ACCEPTABILITY, AVAILABILITY

Availability:

If any individual in today’s society wants to know or search about health issues within Kane county they can easily find readily available information online or by even calling or stopping into the county’s health department.

Once on the County’s web page the information you are seeking can be easily found by navigating the website and clicking there live links to current relevant items within the county.

On the county’s Chip document the table of contents helped make finding information quick and easy. Tables and graphs helped finding data that was readily available and easy to analyze quick and were easy to follow, clear and concise with information presented.

ACCESSIBILITY, ACCEPTABILITY, AVAILABILITY

Acceptability:

The County’s IPlan Does meet and follow the IDPH’s requirements.

The county’s Iplan has an executive summary followed by the table of contents found on the document.

Throughout the Iplan document all items seem to be in logical order. Easy to read and follow and doesn't confuse the reader.

RELIABILITY, VALIDITY OF DATA SET

Reliability: refers to been dependability or consistency of a data set

Their data set is reliable in the sense that it’s in order, resourceful, updated, and fully detailed.

Access to Health Care (Access to specialty care), Maternal and Child Health (Infant mortality), Chronic Disease (Cardiovascular diseases), Access to Mental Health Services, and Public Health Maintenance of Effort

RELIABILITY, VALIDITY OF DATA SET

Validity: Which means another word for “availability”. And it can be pointed out that information may and may not exist and it if does, it’s not easily accessible.

Data set were basically followed and and in full details.

Implementing, making plans and working towards the outcome of the plan made to fulfill priorities of improving community health.

According to Kane county IPLAN, they are required to conduct a mandated data set every four years.

Bibliography2000 GEN-GEO Conference.  (Grantmakers Evaluation Network and Grantmakers for Effective

Organizations, 2000)

Community Health Improvement Plan. (n.d.). Retrieved November 10, 2015, from

http://kanehealth.com/chip.htm

IPLAN. (n.d.). Retrieved November 9, 2015, from http://dekalbcounty.org/health/admin

istration/iplan.html

Illinois Project for Local Assessment of Needs (IPLAN). (n.d.). Retrieved November 5, 2015,

from http://app.idph.state.il.us/

Bibliography Cont.AFMC Primer on Population Health: The Association of Facilities of Medicine of Canada

http://phprimer.afmc.ca/Part2MethodsStudyingHealth/Chapter6MethodsMeasuringHealth/Reliabilityandvalidityofhealthmeasures

Kane County 2012-2016 Community Health Improvement IPLAN.

http://kanehealth.com/PDFs/CHIP/CHIP-short.pdf

Kane County Population Estimates, Feb. 2007 by IPLAN Databook 2006/Charts

http://kanehealth.com/PDFs/Planning/IPLAN/IPLANDatabook2006.pdf

DeKalb County Health Department: Illinois Project for Local Assessments of Needs (IPLAN), March 26 2013

http://dekalbcounty.org/health/administration/pdf/iplanassess.pdf