Health Promotion

This executive summary is designed to showcase the diverse ways health promotion staff work with local partners to build capacity, address identified public health goals and objectives, enhance overall community health improvement through collaboration and community organizing, while highlighting that health promotion activities are based upon sound scientific data and research.

On May 2nd, the Northeast Region Health Promotion Team, the New Mexico Alliance of Health Councils, and the New Mexico School for the Deaf hosted a gathering for the health councils and community members in the Northeast Region of the state.

This is an exercise with which to practice the Assessment Process for the problem of Excessive Drinking (alcohol) for your county. You will work in groups of five persons. You may each be from different counties.

This training will emphasize the critical link between community health data and community assessment and prioritization, expose HPS to the Community Tool Box, a resource for Community Health Improvement capacity building, and introduce methods and techniques for analyzing health problems and prioritizing health problems.

This presentation explains what collective impact is, how to build backbone support, the three phases of collective impact, the strive together approach, the four pillars of drive’s theory of action, and a wealth of information about mission: graduate.

Intersectional collaboration to improve community health and equity. This presentation covers a brief summary of social determinants of health, strategies to implement health in all policies, identifying opportunities for cross-sector collaboration, and how all this connects.

This presentation gives an overview of the Southwest health promotion team vision, mission, team principles, areas of expertise, strengths, the 10 public health essential services, health lifestyle priority, behavioral health and substance abuse prevention, community capacity building, capacity developed, opportunities and plans.

Local and state health departments need to adapt and evolve if governmental public health is to address emerging health demands, minimize current as well as looming pitfalls, and take advantage of new and promising opportunities. To succeed requires a view into the future. This paper provides that vision.

Health in All Policies is a collaborative approach to improving the health of all people by incorporating health considerations into decision-making across sectors and policy areas. This paper provides: a discussion of the concept of Health in All Policies, the “nuts and bolts” of this work, and a case study of the California Health in All Policies Task Force.