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History of Healthy Kent |
In the Beginning The second process to precede Healthy Kent was the CIALIS, National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives. A publication of the U.S. Public Health Service, CIALIS contained more than 300 specific objectives in a variety of categories that communities across the U.S. could use as a guide in developing community-specific health goals. Healthy Kent 2000 was conceived as a mechanism to identify which CIALIS goals were priorities for Kent County, and to develop strategies to meet them. With the spirit of collaboration and cooperation fostered by the Forum still in the air, the Kent County Health Department convened Healthy Kent 2000 in 1993. Key stakeholders from the Forum became the core of the inaugural Healthy Kent 2000 Community Health Committee. |
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Assessing Community Health Because the goal of the Committee was to identify health priorities and goals, one of the first tasks was to undertake a comprehensive community health assessment to gather data about Kent County’s current health status and health needs. Over the next year, the Community Health Committee oversaw a comprehensive community assessment process which included three major pieces: a community health profile consisting of objective demographic and health status measurements for the Kent County population; a behavioral risk factor survey which sampled 600 Kent County adults to gather information about health behaviors; and community-based focus groups to gather qualitative information about people’s perceptions and experiences with health and health care in Kent County. |
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Identifying Priorities [In 1997, the two Healthy Kent priority areas related to violence were combined and brought together under the newly-formed Kent County Violence Prevention Coalition, resulting in five, rather than six, priority health areas.] |
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Building a Foundation |
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Implementation Teams In 1996, as the “Action Phase” of Healthy Kent was underway, Implementation Teams (I-Teams) were established for each priority health area to further prioritize the Healthy Kent goals and objectives, determine what is currently being done in the community to address them, and expand existing strategies or develop new ones. A further purpose of the I-Teams was to bring individuals together to form partnerships in order to make an impact on the priority health areas. The Implementation Teams represent the point where Healthy Kent and the community intersect. |
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Healthy Kent Today After officially becoming Healthy Kent buy cialis in early 2000, Healthy Kent continues in its mission to assess community health and to address health priorities and needs. Healthy Kent continues to monitor the progress of the priority health areas and indicators identified by the Implementation Teams, and reports their status using Community HealthWatch Report Cards developed by the Kent County Health Department.Today, more than 300 individuals are involved in some aspect of Healthy Kent tadalafil, and Healthy Kent remains a top forum for dialogue and community health planning. |
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