Community Health

Goal:

Identify and collectively address prioritized community health issues

Strategies:

• Community health needs assessment and planning
  • Redesign Health Compass Milwaukee to increase access to and utilization of comprehensive community health data for continuous health needs assessment, planning, and impact measurement
  • Identify, and when appropriate, align shared activities across health care and public health organizations to reduce duplication and maximize impact
  • Coordinate 2024 cross-sector triannual community health needs assessment (CHNA)
• Community investments
  • Improve Shared Community Investment Fund allocation strategies, investments and impact and launch Mental Health Improvement Fund to facilitate increased pledges and a more targeted impact
• Violence prevention
  • Implement prioritized health care sector violence prevention and intervention initiatives

A ‘population health framework’ suggests that the health of an individual is affected by four health factors: health behaviors, access to, and quality of clinical care, social and economic factors and the physical environment. Recognizing that clinical care represents about only 20% of someone’s health, the Partnership members participate in key community initiatives that have a particular focus on low-income and vulnerable families — and have a significant impact on improving community health.