Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Looking to the Future

March 12, 2013

Agenda

■ Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion overview

■ Staying up to date with the Affordable Care Act

■ Tools and resources for success

■ Your charge for 2013

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP)

■ Prevention Science Division

■ Health Communication and eHealth Division

■ Healthcare Quality Division

■ Community Strategies Division

Prevention Science Division: Physical Activity Guidelines Midcourse Report

School

Preschool and

Childcare Centers

CommunityFamily and Home

Primary Care

Dietary Guidelines for Americans

■ Serves as the lead agency for 2015, 

in collaboration with USDA

■ Appoints 2015 Dietary Guidelines

Advisory Committee

■ Holds public meetings for 

Committee deliberations; Transparent process

■ Creates Advisory Report in 2014 to inform the development of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Health Communication and eHealth Division

■ Supports ODPHP’s web presence

– HealthyPeople.gov, healthfinder.gov, health.gov

■ Supports ODPHP’s social media outreach

– Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

■ Provides consumers 

easy access to ACA 

covered preventive 

services decision 

support at 

myhealthfinder

Health Communication and eHealth Division

■ Provides consumers easy to use wellness and prevention information at 

healthfinder.gov

■ Initiating elearning training 

courses on key public 

health issues

■ Co‐leads HHS health 

literacy activities

Healthcare Quality Division

■ Adverse Drug Events

– Developing action plan

■ Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)

– Consistent with Affordable Care Act

– Releasing revised plan

HAI Action Plan: 2013 Goals

Metric Source National 5-year Prevention Target

Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) NHSN 50% reduction

Central Line Insertion Practices (CLIP) Adherence NHSN 100% adherence

Clostridium difficile (hospitalizations) HCUP 30% reductionClostridium difficile infections NHSN 30% reduction

Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs) NHSN 25% reduction

MRSA invasive infections (population) EIP 50% reductionMRSA bacteremia (hospital) NHSN 25% reduction Surgical site infections (SSIs) NHSN 25% reduction

Surgical Care Improvement Process Measures Adherence (SCIP) SCIP 95% adherence

Community Strategies Division

■ Leads Healthy People

■ Engages communities in Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

■ Co‐leads Social Determinants of Health Work Group

Healthy People: Aligns Strategic Public Health Goals and Efforts Across the Nation

Non‐Aligned EffortRandom Acts of Innovation

Healthy People

Aligned Effort

Increases access to affordable care

Makes health care more affordable

Strengthens Medicare

Improves patient rights and protections

Lays the foundation for 2014

Creates National Prevention Strategy

Affordable Care Act

Affordable Care Act: Preventive Services

16 preventive services for adults

Blood pressure; colorectal cancer; depression

22 preventive services for women, including pregnant women

Breastfeeding; contraception; well‐woman visits

27 preventive services for children

Autism; lead; obesity

Affordable Care Act: What’s Next?

■ Coming in 2013: The Health Insurance MarketplaceIndividuals and small businesses can buy affordable and qualified health benefit plans in this new transparent and competitive insurance marketplace. Open enrollment begins October 1, 2013.

■ Coming in 2014: Tax Credits for FamiliesTax credits to help the middle class afford insurance will become available for those with income between 100% and 400% of the poverty line who are not eligible for other affordable coverage.

Tools and Resources for Success

■ Healthy People Curriculum Toolkit

■ Leading Health Indicators

■ Data 2020

■ Evidence‐based Resources

■ Sharing Library

■ Eat Healthy Be Active Community Workshops

■ Health.gov

■ Healthfinder.gov

Tools and Resources for Success

Healthy People Curriculum Toolkit

■ 14 modules to assist public health schools and programs to teach Healthy People

■ Partnership with APTR and Temple University

■ Available fall 2013

Leading Health Indicators

■ Small set of health issues that are recognized as major influences on the public’s health

■ Represent major determinants of health across the life stages

Tools and Resources for Success

Data 2020

■ Updated and accessible data for Healthy People objectives

■ Identifies disparities

Evidence‐based Resources

■ Resources for each Healthy People topic area shown to be effective

■ Directory of implementation programs and strategies

Tools and Resources for Success

Sharing Library

■ Implementation stories

■ Ideas to get communities started

Eat Healthy Be Active Community Workshops

■ Six, one‐hour community workshops

■ Based on Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 and 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines

Tools and Resources for Success

Health.gov

■ Includes key resources‐ the Physical Activity Guidelines and the Dietary Guidelines

Healthfinder.gov

■ Consumer friendly website

■ Updated health information for key population groups

Charge for the Year

■ Stay up‐to‐date

■ Educate yourself and others

■ Identify the tools that work for you

Ways To Connect With ODPHP

■ Visit our websites:

– http://www.odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov

– http://www.health.gov

– http://healthfinder.gov

– http://www.healthypeople.gov

■ Follow ODPHP on Twitter 

– @gohealthypeople

– @healthfinder

■ ODPHP on YouTube

■ Join the Healthy People Consortium at www.healthypeople.gov

■ APTR‐ODPHP Prevention Health Policy Residency Rotation Program

■ Luther L. Terry Senior Fellowship in Preventive Medicine