Healthy Connecticut

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• SHIP Annual Reports

• Healthy Connecticut 2020 Performance Dashboard

• Where to Find Evidence-based Interventions and Methods

• Healthy People - Healthy Connecticut

• Healthy CT 2025 State Health Assessment

  This is the page for the Healthy Connecticut 2025 initiative's State Health Assessment. From the publication: The 2019 Connecticut State Health Assessment is an update on the health status of Connecticut residents with a focus on the social determinants of health that are having the greatest impact on health outcomes. The assessment provides the basis for the Connecticut State Health Improvement Plan, which together make up the state health planning framework Healthy Connecticut 2025.

• SHIP Coalition Summit

• Injury and Violence Prevention

  This is the page for the Healthy CT 2025 State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) legacy Action Team for Injury and Violence Prevention.

• Maternal Infant and Child Health

  This is the page for the Health CT 2025 State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) legacy Action Team for Maternal, Infant, and Child Health (MICH).

• Healthy CT 2025 Advisory Council

  The page for the Healthy CT 2025 State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) Advisory Council. This group guides Plan implementation, and establishes Action Teams to work towards advancing the goals, objectives, and strategies of the focus areas of the Plan. The SHIP has been a guiding roadmap for promoting and advancing population health and ensuring all people in Connecticut have the opportunity to attain their highest potential for health.

• Economic Stability Action Team

  This is the page for the Healthy CT 2025 State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) Action Team Economic stability. This group seeks to improve social and economic factors, such as income, education, employment, community safety, and social supports, which can significantly affect how well and how long we live. These factors affect our ability to make healthy choices, afford medical care and housing, manage stress, and more.

• Access to Health Care Action Team

  This is the page for the Healthy Connecticut 2025 State Health Improvement Plan Action Team Access to Health Care. Access to comprehensive, quality health care services is important for promoting and maintaining health, preventing, and managing disease, reducing unnecessary disability and premature death, and achieving health equity for all Americans. This topic area focuses on three components of access to care: insurance coverage, health services, and timeliness of care.

• Community Strength and Resilience

  This is the page for the Healthy Connecticut 2025 State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) Action Team Community Strength and Resilience. This group maintains the focus of building a community’s resilience. This requires a community to use its assets to strengthen public health and healthcare systems and to improve the community’s physical, behavioral, and social health to withstand, adapt to, and recover from adversity.

• Healthy Food and Housing

  This is the page for the Healthy CT 2025 State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) Action Team Healthy Food and Housing. This group seeks to improve access to healthy food options. For some CT residents, healthy and affordable foods are not as readily available in their communities as are places that prepare or sell processed pre-packaged foods that are more likely to be high in salt, sugars, and fats. Also, this Action Team works to improve safe living spaces in CT. Poor quality housing is associated with various negative health outcomes, including chronic disease and injury.

• SHIP Data Committee

  The Healthy CT 2025 State Health Improvement Plan planning coalition instated the data committee for the purpose of: developing reliable data indicators and data sources to monitor and track progress on the State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP).