[ORDiabCoalition] Draft Health Improvement Plan and Public Input Survey - Posted now!

[Jacqueline M VILLNAVE]

Dear Public Health Stakeholders:
The Oregon Health Improvement Plan is a series of recommendations to improve the lifelong health of Oregonians, prevent chronic disease, and stimulate innovation and collaboration within our communities.  Its focus is on finding ways to ensure people's health long before health care is needed. Its goal is to create environments and systems that provide every Oregonian, regardless of their income, education, or racial/ethnic background, with the opportunity to make healthy choices for themselves and their families.  To help address these issues, the Oregon Health Policy Board created the Oregon Health Improvement Plan (HIP) Committee in January 2010 with the charge of recommending innovative solutions.  The Oregon Health Policy Board expects recommendations that are actionable within the scope of the Oregon Health Authority and the current economic environment.
Given this charge and context, we are seeking your input as to whether or not you feel the components of the draft plan will move Oregon in the direction for improved health.  We invite you to review the draft plan and complete the Public Input on the committee website available at http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/hpcdp/hip/index.shtml.  (Note- It's a 76 page file, with appendices starting on page 23).
The results of this survey will be summarized as part of the HIP Committee's presentation to the Oregon Health Policy Board on November 9, 2010.  At that time, the Oregon Health Policy Board will consider the plan and the summarized feedback.  The Board will forward recommendations it approves to the Oregon Health Authority and Legislature.  
We appreciate you taking time to complete the survey which will close at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 29, 2010.
Sincerely,
Tammy Bray, HIP Committee Chair
Lila Wickham, HIP Committee Vice-chair
 
 
Jacqueline Villnave, MPH 
Community Programs Liaison
Diabetes Program Coordinator
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Program
Oregon Public Health Services, DHS
800 NE Oregon St., Suite 730
Portland OR  97232-2162
phone  971-673-1039

mobile 503-753-5421
fax   971-673-0994
jacqueline.m.villnave at state.or.us 
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