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Cycles of Health
Role of our Health Council
- Holding the big picture: knowledge of a community’s health: needs, resources, priorities
- Comprehensive health planning and assessment within a given jurisdiction (county or tribe)
- Coordination: Identifying & filling gaps in services, reducing duplication of services, encouraging alignment, working to achieve common aims or goals
- Partnership with the State (DOH) and with the community
How our Health Council functions
- Assessment
- Planning, Prioritization
- Coordination: Alignment
- Policy & Advocacy
- Mobilizing resources
- Outreach & public awareness
- Overseeing direct services
How our Health Council Work Leads to Outcomes of Improved Health
- Increased integration of services
- Joint programs & co-sponsored events
- Policy changes
- Allocation of resources: collaborative grants, leveraging of resources
- Reduced duplication of services
- Filling of gaps in services
- Increased public awareness of health issues
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Vision
Healthy families promoting a healthy community.
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Mission
To provide and promote a leadership role in empowering the community to improve our health status, through a comprehensive, family-centered, community based and culturally-sensitive approach in San Miguel County.
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Purpose
- To enhance the quality of life through the improvement of health, welfare and safety of every resident.
- To discuss ideas, concerns, initiatives, goals and solutions for collectively developing community priorities for the above.
- To maximize community health resources and services.
- To advocate for the needs of women, infants, children, adolescents and their families, including fathers, and children with special health care needs.
- To improve maternal and child health outcomes.
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