We  wanted to reach out to you about some work the Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division is doing in order to set the statewide health priorities for 2020-2024.  We’d love to work with you to make sure we have diverse community voices at the table as a part of the state health assessment (SHA).  Please consider participating or sharing with your relevant networks.

What’s the state health assessment?

Much like community health assessments, the Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division is in the process of completing its SHA. The SHA describes the health of Oregon; and identifies areas for improvement, factors that impact health outcomes, and assets that can be mobilized to improve population health. The SHA forms the basis for the next State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP), which is similar to community health improvement plans and will include statewide health priorities for 2020-2024. The Public Health Division is using the Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) framework, widely used by CCOs and local health departments.

Since July 2017, the SHA Steering Committee has been leading a process to collect information about the health of people in Oregon and Oregon’s public health system overall.  In October 2017, we will be working with community-based organizations, health care, education and other partners to ask community members a few critical questions about their experiences related to health to be included in the SHA. The intention of these community meetings is to hear from individuals and groups experiencing health disparities, whose experiences with health may not be collected and reported in traditional population health data sets.

Community meeting objectives