Helping Residents Achieve a Healthy Lifestyle

In developing the 2022-2025 Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP), the GMPHP adopted overarching goals and objectives to address health equity. The graphic shows that healthcare entities and their partners can broadly impact health needs by addressing socioeconomic factors.

This approach does not discount public health campaigns and individualized care. These interventions play a significant role in individual health outcomes. Combining targeted interventions with community-wide strategies that address systematic inequities has the greatest potential to impact overall community health and well-being.

Using the objectives outlined below, GMPHP will use the 2022-2025 CHIP to monitor county-wide progress toward the priority areas. GMPHP partners will identify existing and future institutional strategies that align with the identified goals and share progress regarding their specific actions that work towards achieving the objectives through collective impact. The priority areas are 1) COVID-19 – The guiding goal is to reduce death disparities among population groups 2) Life Expectancy – The guiding goal is to achieve equitable life expectancy among all residents in Mercer County 3) Behavioral Health/ACEs – The guiding goal is to reduce the impact of trauma on health outcomes 4) Maternal Child – The guiding goal is to achieve equitable birth outcomes for Black mothers and babies.