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Action Plan ~
Prioritization
The Council is charged with creating an action
plan to eliminate health disparities. The plan will address priority health
conditions and indicators of health on an incremental basis, with the first
version of the plan focusing on five priorities.
RCW 43.20.280 lists 16 health conditions and
indicators of health that, at a minimum, the Council must address in its
plan to eliminate health disparities.
Below are one-page briefing documents for each
of the 16 health conditions and indicators of health. These are not
comprehensive briefs, but rather are focused on the prevalence and/or
incidence of the indicator, its severity, and the magnitude of the
disparity in prevalence and severity by race, ethnicity, and sex. These
briefs were developed using previously published data and reports.
Wherever possible, population-level data specific to Washington State
were used.
At its September 20, 2007 meeting, the Council
voted to add additional social determinants of health and health conditions
to the list of health topics under consideration. Below are one-page
briefing documents for the health topics added by the Council.
The Council’s prioritization process occurred
in two phases. The first phase of prioritization was based on the
prevalence and severity of the health disparity as directed by statute.
Following the first prioritization phase, the Council narrowed its list
of potential priorities to the 12 health conditions and social
determinants of health listed below.
Council members
agreed that they wanted more information before identifying the top five
priorities for the first version of the plan. Specifically, the Council
wanted to learn about initiatives, either by government agencies or
community organizations, to address the 12 health topics. The Council
directed staff to conduct targeted environmental scans to identify
activities ongoing in the state that aim to address the twelve priority
health conditions and social determinants of health.
The Council then underwent a second phase of
prioritization. The second phase was based on three criteria: (1)
Opportunities for Council Support, i.e., Readiness, (2) Identified
Community Need, i.e., Public Input and (3) Prioritization of Need, as
Identified by Data. The Council decided to assign the public input
criterion twice the weight of the others.
At its September 25, 2008 meeting, the Council
selected its top five priorities to be addressed in its work plan.
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Health Condition |
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Diabetes |
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Overweight & Obesity |
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Social Determinant of Health
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Education |
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Health Insurance Coverage |
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Health Workforce Diversity |
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