Contents of Each Section

This document includes a section for each of the four priority health areas: 1) Infant and Child Health; 2) Older Adult Health; 3) Obesity and Diabetes; and 4) Behavioral Health and the Orange County public health system. Each section provides an overview of findings from the community health assessment and a plan for addressing the area. The plans for each section were created by work groups composed of members of the Orange County Community Health Advisory Group and other community stakeholders with expertise in the area. The work groups closely considered assessment findings and determined objectives and strategies for each goal based on available data, best use of resources, and alignment with local, state, and national initiatives. Sections for each priority area include the following:  Assessment describing key findings from the various assessments of each priority area.  Current activities and assets describing activities and agencies that are currently working on the priority health area.  Key planning partners indicating organizations who participated in the work groups for each priority health area.  Goals defining the overall mission or purpose of each priority area as it relates to the Orange County’s Healthier Togetherinitiative.  Objectives defining the planned specific improvements to key focus areas of the goal. Some objectives define targets by the year 2020 to be consistent with Healthy People 2020timeline.  “Why is this important?” section describing findings from the assessment that led to the objective being identified as an important contributor to the goal. This section also includes how the objective aligns with state and national initiatives such as Healthy People 2020 , CDC’s Winnable Battles, Let’s Get Healthy California , and the National Prevention Strategy .  Short-term strategies indicating the strategies to be undertaken during the course of this plan (2014-2016). As this is Orange County’s first community health improvement plan, some of the strategies are investigative in nature and will help to inform actions in future plans.  Longer-term strategies to consider indicating the strategies to be undertaken in future plans. These strategies are provided to show the intended future actions, but may change based on findings from assessments conducted for this initial plan or future assessments. To illustrate the cross-cutting themes among the various priority areas, the following icons for each priority area are shown at the end of objectives and/or strategies throughout the plans: