2. All Residents in Brazoria County Have the Resources to Obtain and Maintain Health and Wellness
2.2. Brazoria County Health Ranking Compared to Other Texas Counties
Current Value
14
Definition
Produced by the Robert Wood Johnnson Foundation, the County Health Rankings is an annual snapshot of comparative healthiness across Texas counties. This depicts the relative health of Brazoria County residents in relation to residents from the other 253 counties in Texas.
Health Outcomes represent how healthy a county is right now. They reflect the physical and mental well-being of residents within a community through measures representing not only the length of life but quality of life as well.
Story Behind the Curve
Factors Pushing Up (good):
- Diversity of community partners!!
- Growth of economy
- Access to care
- Education/preventative measures
- Access to higher education/schools
- Access to basic needs
- Long term recovery team
- Industry
- Violent crime is less
Factors Pushing Down (bad):
- Natural disasters
- Some lack of resilience
- PTSD
- Lack of access to transportation
- Lack of resources flowing down to BC
- Lack of local media exposure
- Price of convenience
- Local economic decline
- Inability to articulate need/results to potential donors
Partners
- UWBC
- Brazoria County Counseling Center
- BCAC
- BCCIL
- BACH
- NAMI GC
- CHN
- The Gathering Place
- The Rose
- YFCS
- SIDS
- Gulf Coast Center
- State funding
- Federal funding
- CDBG funding (via Commissioners Court)
- Medical community
- Industry
- First responders
- Faith based organizations
- Educational institutions
- VOLUNTEERS!!
Solutions
Evidence Based Practices:
- Transportation outreach for those in need.
- Mobile units for people
- Substance abuse rehab services
- Geriatric services
- Info and Referral
- Psychotherapy - Public MH education, suicide prevention
- Physical rehab - mammography, vaccines, preventative care, etc.
- Developmental delays/milestones
Promising Practices:
- Benchmark in comparison to other counties
- UWBC fundraising practice
- All UWBC and nonprofit partners current programs!!
- Caregiver/individual/family support groups
- Collaboration between all organizations
No cost/low cost:
- Social media push
- Health fair/outreach
- Family life classes
- Collective approach to communication by UWBC to donors
- Advocacy from local to national level
Off the Wall:
- Brazoria County Wellness Day!!
- Fund a position in UWBC to lead and market collective partner effort
- Food truck (mobile units)
- Fund a position to leverage funding at federal level to support partners
- Fund a position to gather data (specific) to Brazoria County that is relevant and recent
Strategies
- Address mental health and/or physical wellness needs of children, adults, and/or seniors that promotes individual and family well-beiong
- Improve how residents are able to connect to one another or to needed services, including public transportation or mobilization improvements
- Support a collaboration of health stakeholdersthat are aligning, compliementing, and leveraging services and that build capacity in Brazoria County to better asssess and understand health data
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