DES MOINES – The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has begun development of the most comprehensive health needs assessment ever undertaken by the department. A statewide effort designed to help Iowans live longer, healthier, more productive lives will be outlined in the Healthy Iowans: Iowa’s Health Improvement Plan 2017-2021.
A needs assessment, scheduled for January through May of 2016, will compile input from local health agencies, IDPH advisory committees, and about 170 stakeholder groups. In addition, individual Iowans are invited to recommend health issues needing priority attention.
Recommendations may be made through a form available on the IDPH website at http://idph.iowa.gov/healthy-iowans. Submissions are due by February 29, 2016.
To help in identifying priority health issues, IDPH partnered with the University of Iowa, College of Public Health’s Center for Public Health Statistics on the 2015 State Health Profile for Iowa. The profile has data for 10 health-related topics including access to quality health services, acute and chronic diseases, injury, and mental health among others. The profile is available at http://bit.ly/1TSjqky.
The most recent Healthy Iowans statewide plan, first published in May 2012, was the culmination of nearly two years of work by more than 500 members in advisory committees and task forces, state departments, local public health agencies, non-profit associations, universities, and professional associations. You can access Iowa’s most recent plan and the progress made thus far at http://idph.iowa.gov/healthy-iowans/plan.
The updated Healthy Iowans plan will be released in 2017.
To sign up for more information about Healthy Iowans and related issues, send a blank e-mail to join-HealthyIowans@lists.ia.gov.
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