Prevention Agenda 2013-2017:
New York State’s Health Improvement
Plan
Presentation to the Council of Environmental Health Directors
by the New York State Department of Health
May 2013
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Prevention Agenda 2013-2017:
Ad Hoc Leadership Group
• Six members of Public Health Committee and other
leaders from Healthcare, Business, Academia,
Community-based & Local Health Departments.
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Vision
New York is the Healthiest State
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How Health Improvement is Produced
Dahlgren G, Whitehead M. 1991. Policies and Strategies to Promote Social Equity in Health. Stockholm, Sweden: Institute for
Futures Studies.
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The Public Health System
Philanthropy
Healthcare Delivery
System*
Communities
Policy Makers & Elected
Officials
Governmental & NonGovernmental Public
Health
Other Governmental
Agencies
Assuring the
conditions for
public health
Employer’s Businesses &
Unions
The Media
Academia
Community Based Health
& Human Service
Agencies
Adapted from : The Future of the Public’s
Health in the 21st Century. IOM 2003
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Framework for Improving Health
Increasing
Population
Impact
Counseling
& Education
Clinical
Interventions
Increasing
Individual
Effort
Needed
Long-Lasting Protective
Interventions
Changing the Context to Make
Individuals’ Default Decisions
Healthy
Socio-economic Factors
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Frieden T., A Framework for Public Health Action: The Health Impact Pyramid.
American Journal of Public Health. 2010; 100(4): 590-595
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Prevention Agenda 2013-17 Goals
1. Improve the health status of all New Yorkers and close
health disparities.
2. Advance a “Health in All Policies” approach that
addresses the broader determinants of health
3. Strengthen public health infrastructure
4. Create and strengthen sustainable public-private and
multi-sector partnerships
5. Further strengthen and promote the case for
investment in prevention and public health
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Five Prevention Agenda Priorities
1.
2.
3.
4.
Prevent chronic diseases
Promote a healthy and safe environment
Promote healthy women, infants and children
Promote mental health and prevent substance
abuse
5. Prevent HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccinepreventable diseases and healthcare associated
infections
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Cross-Cutting Priorities
1. Access to quality health services and early
identification of health problems
2. Health disparities (including population specific
strategies where applicable)
3. Social Determinants of Health
4. Life course Perspective (including attention to the
aging population)
5. Oral Health
6. Gender perspective (male and female specific
strategies where applicable)
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Prevent Chronic Diseases
Focus Areas
1. Reduce obesity in children and adults
2. Reduce illness, disability and death related to
tobacco use and secondhand smoke
exposure
3. Increase access the high quality chronic
disease preventive care and management in
both clinical and community settings
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Promoting Healthy Women, Infants,
and Children
Focus Areas
1. Maternal and infant health
2. Child health
3. Reproductive, preconception, and interconception health
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Promote Mental Health and Prevent
Substance Abuse
Focus Areas
1. Promote mental, emotional and behavioral
well-being in communities
2. Prevent substance abuse and other mental
emotional behavioral disorders
3. Strengthen infrastructure across systems
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Prevent HIV/STDs, Vaccine-Preventable
Disease and Health Care-Associated Infections
Focus Areas
1. Prevent HIV and STDs
2. Prevent vaccine-preventable diseases
3. Prevent health care-associated infections
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Promote a Healthy and Safe
Environment (PHSE)
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PHSE Scope and Charge
• Focus on factors in the natural and built environments that
influence human health and disease in order to create health
supportive environments in NYS
• Scope: chemical, physical and biological exposures; and injury
and violence prevention
• Membership – representing diverse sectors of the public
health system
• Charge
– Primarily, complete priority-specific action plan
– Action plan should include recommendations on interventions that
can be implemented by other sectors (i.e. beyond DOH and other
governmental PH)
• 3-month timeline
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PHSE Committee Sector Distribution
Government Public Health
• Nancy Clark/Thomas Matte, NYCDOHMH
• Eric Faisst/Geoff Snyder Madison County HD
• Daniel Luttinger (Co-Chair), NYSDOH
• John Wilson, Neil Muscatiello,
Ken Aldous, NYSDOH Staff
Philanthropy
• Aaron Wernham, Pew Charitable Trusts
Government, Other than Public Health
• Ellen Burkhard, NYSERDA
• Pam Hadad-Hurst, NYSDEC
• Maureen O’Neill, US EPA
• Carl Thurnau/Tom Roberts, NYSED
• Tony Perez, DCJS
Business
• Darren Suarez, NYS Business Council
• Steve Rosario, American Chem. Council
Education Sector
• Susan Klitzman (CO-Chair), CUNY SPH
• Blanca Ramos/Bonita Sanchez, SUNY Albany
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Clinical Care Delivery System
• Rosemary Anthony, Arnot Health
• Michael Lax, Occupational Health Clinic Center
Non-profit
• Ana Garcia/Elyse Powell, NY Academy of Medicine
• Rebecca Morley, Natl. Center for Healthy Housing
• Sheila Bushkin, Med. Soc. State of NY
• James Melius, NYS Laborers’ Health & Safety Fund
• Peggy Shepard WE ACT for Env. Justice
• Joyce Hyatt, Chemung Valley Rural Health Network
• Patricia Scalera, NY Rural Water Association
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Four Focus Areas
• Air Quality
• Water Quality
• Built Environment (including indoor and
community-scale environments)
• Injuries (unintentional and intentional)
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Climate Change
• Climate change is cross cutting issue, not
related to just one specific goal.
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Focus Area Action Plan
• Define the Problem and Scope
• Identify Goals and Objectives
• Identify Interventions (evidenced-based where
possible)
• Identify Key Sectors/Organizations by
Intervention
• Objectives/Tracking Indicators
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Selecting Interventions
• Identified evidence based, promising and next
policies, programs, and practices for action
• Assessed potential to address health disparities,
ability to measure success, potential reach, and
potential for broad partner support and collaboration.
• Finalized by committees
• Selection serves as starting point.
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Focus Area: Outdoor Air Quality
• Problem/Scope
– Outdoor air quality leads to increase illness and death
– 11 counties out of compliance with the NAAQS
– People with respiratory or cardiovascular disease are particularly at
risk due to poor air quality
– Approx. 10 % of NYers have asthma
– Rates of hospitalizations due to asthma higher among low-income and
minorities
– Cardiovascular disease leading cause of death
• Goal
1. Reduce exposure to outdoor air pollutants with a particular focus on
burdened communities
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Focus Area: Outdoor Air Quality
Interventions
• Develop a media campaign to provide information on public health
effects of air pollutants and their sources
• Consider implementing EPA’s Air Quality Flag program at schools
and other community organizations
• Assess and reduce emissions from sources that may contribute to
local air pollutant levels (e.g., residential wood boilers, residential
boilers using high sulfur fuels)
• Support transportation options that reduce air pollution from
mobile sources (e.g., support public transportation, community
planning incorporating enhanced walkability or cycling, pricing
strategies, greater diversification of transportation fuels)
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Focus Area: Water Quality
• Problem/Scope
– Fluoridated drinking water considered by CDC as one of 10 great public health
achievements of the 20th century
– Number of water systems that fluoridate in NYS is decreasing
– Many rural areas are not served by public water supplies, approximately 20%
of population on private wells
– Aging drinking water infrastructure
– Abandonment of small privately owned community water systems
– Climate change places additional stressors on NY water and water supplies
(e.g., nutrient loading, decreased quantity of water, algal blooms, beach water
quality)
• Goals
1. Increase the percentage of State residents that receive fluoridated drinking
water
2. Reduce potential health risks associated with drinking and recreational water
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Focus Area: Water Quality
Interventions
• Provide communities interested in implementing fluoridation with outreach
materials and resources to promote fluoridation as a significant health
intervention (Goal 1)
• Develop and promote existing strategies that provide the benefits of
fluoridation to people with private drinking water wells, e.g., fluoride tablets;
obstetricians, pediatricians, WIC programs and others are likely partners (Goal 1)
• Promote or require long-range local level planning, including asset management
planning for the long-term sustainability of water utilities infrastructure (Goal 2)
• Develop enforceable codes for water conservation during extended periods of
drought. Consider model codes adoptable at local levels, or a Statewide
approach that local governments can use for enforcement (Goal 2)
• Work with the real estate industry to promote well testing when a house is
bought or sold (Goal 2)
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Focus Area: Built Environment Quality
• Problem/Scope
– Includes homes, schools, workplaces, transit systems, roadways, parks, etc.
– Can affect health through products/materials used and/or land use, zoning,
infrastructure decisions
– Land use that encourages physical activity and access to nutritious food is one
component to reducing obesity and concomitant health problems
– Many low-income communities and communities of color have
disproportionately less access to public transportation, green space, safe
streets and healthy foods
– Many housing-related issues can pose a threat to human health (e.g., carbon
monoxide, peeling lead paint, fire and electrical hazards, mold, radon, pests
and pesticides, poor indoor air quality)
– Climate change (e.g., extreme weather episodes, increased coastal flooding
and storms) contribute to adverse health impacts of the built environment
• Goals
1. Improve the design and maintenance of the built environment to promote
healthy lifestyles, sustainability and adaptation to climate change
2. Improve the design and maintenance of home environments to promote
health and reduce related illness
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Focus Area: Built Environment Quality
Interventions
• Implement Smart Growth Public Infrastructure Policy Act, which requires
consideration of smart growth principles when planning and funding
investments, as well as the Complete Streets Law, which requires focused
consideration of bicycle and pedestrian elements in street design (Goal 1)
• Provide accessible, neighborhood cooling centers (Goal 1)
• Provide incentives for sustainable and climate smart planning, zoning and
development, including transportation, e.g., increase the amount and mix
of development within 1/2 mile of commuter rail and bus stations (Goal 1)
• Enhance mechanisms for referrals to support services, such as the Healthy
Neighborhood Program (Goal 2)
• Encourage home and building modifications, such as weatherization, CO
alarms, smoke detectors, fire alarms, and other safety mechanisms (Goal 2)
• Enforce compliance with existing property maintenance, building, fire and
related codes, e.g., boilers, lead paint (Goal 2)
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Focus Area: Injuries, Violence & Occupational Health
• Problem/Scope
– Injuries are a leading cause of death and disability (in NY 20/day die, 453/day
are hospitalized and another 4,295/day are treated and released from ERs)
– Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury death and disability in
people 65 or older, and a leading cause of injury in children up to age 4
– Violence accounts for approximately 847 deaths, 9,392 hospitalizations and
91,740 emergency visits in NY/year
– In the US, more than 4,000 occupational fatalities, 3 million occupational
injuries and 160,000 cases of occupational illness occur each year
– About 53,000 youth go to the ER each year for job-related injuries
– Climate change has potential to impact workers health (e.g., extreme
temperatures, solar ultra-violet radiation, vector-borne diseases)
• Goals
1. Reduce fall risks among the most vulnerable populations
2. Reduce violence
3. Reduce occupational injury and illness
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Focus Area: Injuries, Violence & Occupational Health
Interventions
• Train community workers in evidence-based programs for older adults (Goal 1)
• Conduct in-home assessments and interventions to identify and reduce slip and
fall hazards (Goal 1)
• Improve walkability and safety in community and public spaces (Goal 1)
• Expand access to and availability of exercise and information programs in
community venues (Goal 1)
• Develop multi-sector violence prevention programs (e.g., LHDs, criminal justice,
social services, job training, CBOs) such as SNUG, Cure Violence or CEASEFIRE in
high-risk communities (Goal 2)
• Reduce neighborhood environmental risks, e.g., abandoned buildings, no
lighting, deserted street (Goal 2)
• Outreach effort targeting vocational school programs and industries hiring large
numbers of young workers (Goal 3)
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Indicator Development
• Support “Promote a Healthy and Safe Environment” goals and
objectives
• Basis for measuring intervention progress
• Primary tracking indicators and supplemental indicators
• Where possible, consistent with HP2020
• Worked with program staff to develop measures and, assess data
availability (spatially and temporally)
• Tracking indicators available at:
http://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/prevention_agenda/20132017/indicators/2013/nys.htm
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Tracking Indicators
• Outdoor Air Quality
– Reduce the annual number of days with unhealthy air as
measured by the Air Quality Index (AQI)>100 to 0 (Goal 1)
(Baseline: New York City annual average days 5 for ozone and
6 for PM; Rest of State annual average days 5 for ozone and 3
for PM)
• Water Quality
– Increase the percentage of NYS residents served by community
water systems that receive optimally fluoridated water by 10%
from 71.4% (2012) to 78.5% (Goal 1)
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Tracking Indicators
• Built Environment
– Increase the percentage of the population that lives in a jurisdiction that adopted
the Climate Smart Communities pledge by 20% from 26.7% to 32.0% (Goal 1)
– Increase the proportion of people who commute using alternate modes of
transportation, i.e., public transportation, carpool, bike/walk, telecommute, by
10% from 44.7% to 49.2% (Goal 1)
– Improve access to affordable fruits and vegetables among low-income NYS
residents by decreasing the percentage who live greater than 1 mile from a
supermarket or grocery store in urban areas, or greater than 10 miles from a
supermarket or grocery store in rural areas, by 10% from 2.49% to 2.24% (Goal 1)
– Increase the percentage of homes in vulnerable neighborhoods that have fewer
asthma triggers during Healthy Neighborhood Program home revisits by 55% from
12.9% to 20% (Goal 2)
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Tracking Indicators
• Injuries, Violence, and Occupational Health
– Stop the annual increase of the rate of hospitalizations due to
falls among residents ages 65 and over by maintaining the rate
at 204.6 per 10,000 residents (Goal 1)
– Reduce ED visits due to falls among children ages 1 to 4 from
476.8 to 429.1 per 10,000 residents (Goal 1)
– Reduce the rate of assault-related hospitalizations from 4.8 to
4.3 per 10,000 (Goal 2)
– Reduce the rate of emergency room visits for occupational
injuries among adolescents 15-19 years of age from 36.7 to 33.0
per 10,000 (Goal 3)
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Supplemental Indicators
• Outdoor Air Quality
– Implement policies that target vulnerable groups to reduce
exposure to short-term increases in pollutant levels (e.g.,
policies for schools, day cares, children’s camps) (Goal 1)
– Reduce releases of pollutants from stationary sources (e.g.,
outdoor wood boilers, residential boilers using high sulfur fuel,
fast food char-broilers) (Goal 1)
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Supplemental Indicators
• Water Quality
– Upgrade physical infrastructure (source, treatment, and
delivery systems) in 15% of community water systems (Goal 2)
– Develop strategies to address the abandonment of small
community drinking water systems (Goal 2)
– Improve capacity and develop strategies to identify and assess
sources of pollution that potentially affect regulated beaches
(Goal 2)
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Supplemental Indicators
• Built Environment
– Improve pedestrian and bicycling infrastructure by addressing
financial and other barriers to investing in pedestrian and bicycling
networks, especially in low-income communities (Goal 1)
– Reduce health impacts associated with extreme weather
incidents, especially among vulnerable populations (Goal 1)
– Integrate active transportation network to increase accessibility to
destinations, such as grocery stores, schools, shops, and
restaurants (Goal 1)
– Reduce the incidence of elevated blood lead levels among
children in high-risk neighborhoods (Goal 2)
– Increase the number of housing units that contain at least one
functional smoke and one functional CO detector (Goal 2)
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Supplemental Indicators
• Injuries, Violence, and Occupational Health
– Stop the annual increase in the rate of ED visits due to falls
among residents ages 65 and over (Goal 1)
– Reduce ED visits due to falls among children under 1 year of
age (Goal 1)
– Reduce the rate of ED visits due to assault (Goal 2)
– Reduce the impact of climate change on outdoor workers
(Goal 3)
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CHAs & CSPs
• Local (County) Health Department Community
Health Assessment (CHA) & Community Health
Improvement Plan
– Due November 15, 2013; covers years 2014-2017
• Hospital Community Service Plans (CSPs)
– Due November 15, 2013, covers years 2013-15
• Plans need to choose two Prevention Agenda
priorities and at least one needs to address a
disparity
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Local Community Health Planning
Guidance 2013
• Informed by:
– NYS PHL Article 6 and Article 28 Requirements
– Experience with Prevention Agenda 2008-12
– Public Health Accreditation Standards
– Affordable Care Act
• Guidance intended to facilitate responses to
these requirements and promote
collaboration.
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Local Health Department CHA-CHIP
Blue = new
Community Health Assessment
1. Description of Community (i.e. Demographics, Health issues)
2. Identification of major health challenges
3. Succinct summary of assets and resources
4. Documentation of collaborative process and methods
Community Health Improvement Plan
1. Identification of at least two community priorities. At least one must
address a disparity.
2,4,5 For each priority – goals, objectives, strategies and practices,
performance measures (process, outcome)
3. Community stakeholder roles and responsibilities
6. Process used to sustain engagement
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Hospital CSP
1. Mission Statement
2. Definition of community served
3. Public Participation (i.e. participants, dates,
process)
4. Assessment and selection of at least two
community priorities. At least one must address
a disparity.
5. 3-year plan of action
6. Dissemination of plan to the public
7. Process to sustain engagement
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Community Health Assessment and Improvement Process
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For More Information on the NYS
Prevention Agenda 2013-17
and
Local Community Health Planning Guidance
http://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/prevention_agenda/
2013-2017/index.htm
prevention@health.state.ny.us
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