The Nebraska public health system implements high-priority evidence-based health promotion programs or practices.
Why Is This Important?
To increase impact, evidence-based programs should be implemented. These programs should address the needs of high priority target populations particularly those experiences health disparities.
According to the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Evidence-based health strategies are beneficial because they have a higher likelihood of success, increase workforce productivity, and result in a better use of resources.
Story Behind the Curve
Nebraska SHIP Priority 3: The Nebraska public health system has expanded health promotion capacity to deliver public health prevention programs and services across the lifespan.
For this SHIP goal, several activities were planned for implementation:
- Identify and implement evidence-based health promotion programs or practices targeting high priority populations.
- Complete and disseminate return-on-investment studies.
What We Do
While evidence based practices are occurring statewide, this SHIP objective desired to specifically focus on a few select health promotion evidence based strategies to follow their implementation and effectiveness. Through an effort led by the DHHS Division of Public Health, funding to support chronic disease prevention activities was provided to various local health departments across the state. As a result, key partners are implementing and evaluating three high-priority evidence-based health promotion programs or practices.
These programs and practices include the:
- Diabetes Prevention Program
- Diabetes Self-Management and Education efforts
- Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program
This scorecard is created to track performance, therefore the demonstration of data (numerical and narrative) describes what we define as success. In some instances, a trend may be moving in the wrong direction, but still may be within our 'Target for Success' area. The use of Color Arrows (and sometimes also Color Bands) help to define the Target for Success and Current Progress.
Green, Black and Red color arrows are used to reflect our 'Current Progress' status.
- GREEN Arrow = We're getting better!
- BLACK Arrow = We're maintaining our position.
- RED Arrow = We're going in the wrong direction.
Green, Yellow or Red color bands are used to reflect our 'Target for Success' zones.
- GREEN Color Band = We've reached our Target for Success!
- YELLOW Color Band = We're making progress, but not quite there yet.
- RED Color Band = We're below our Target for Success.
Data is described with the Time Period, Actual Value, Target Value, Current Trend and Baseline Change %. These mean:
- Time Period - The most current time period for which the data were available.
- Actual Value - The actual level of achievement, the most current data point for the indicator; also shown in a Color Band to reflect if that value is or is not within our Target for Success zone.
- Target Value - The desired level of achievement for the data indicator.
- Current Trend - The direction of progress is shown by a Color Arrow to reflect our Current Progress status, and also noting for how many data points the direction been occurring.
- Baseline Change % - The percentage of change between the baseline data point and the current data point (actual value); also shown with a Color Arrow to describe Current Progress status.
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