IMPH | South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health

Special Sections

• SC Coordinated Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Plan

  In close collaboration with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, IMPH provides technical assistance and analysis to assist development of the South Carolina Coordinated Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Plan.

• Healthy South Carolina Initiative

  In September of 2011, a Community Transformation Grant was awarded to the state of South Carolina by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to implement the Healthy South Carolina Initiative. This five-year grant will fund community-level interventions and transformative strategies that reduce death and disability from chronic diseases and their associated risk factors. SC IMPH assists this initiative by convening, coordinating and evaluating an External Leadership Team that will provide state-level leadership and strategic direction for the initiative.

• Health Impact Assessments (HIA)

  An HIA is a combination of procedures, methods, and tools that judges the potential and effects of a policy, plan, or project on the health of a population and the effects within the population.

• Affordable Care Act Implementation Initiative

  With the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the realities of implementing health care legislation present both opportunities and challenges.

Initiatives

• Evidence-Based Public Health

  SCPHI (now known as the SC Institute of Medicine and Public Health) was awarded a mini-grant by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO) and the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) to assist the South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control (SC DHEC) in a planning process to promote use of the Community Guide to Preventative Services in their operations.

• Oral Health 2014 Initiative

  IMPH assisted the work of the SC Rural Health Research Center to develop a statewide plan of action to implement a sustainable public health response that is integrated into primary care and dental safely net systems, and achieves significant, measurable oral health outcomes.

• Exploring Opportunities for Obesity Prevention in Early Care and Education

  IMPH convened stakeholders and performed qualitative research to identify opportunities and barriers to improving access to healthy food and opportunities for physical activity in child care centers in South Carolina.

• Sodium Intake Reduction Strategy Development

  The Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Division of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) has worked with IMPH to review and analyze the development and implementation of a sodium intake reduction strategy in South Carolina.

• County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

  IMPH collaborates with the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program. The County Health Rankings, first released in 2010, show us that where we live matters to our health. The health of a community depends on many different factors – ranging from individual health behaviors, education and jobs, to quality of health care, to the environment. IMPH works with the ​County Health Rankings & Roadmaps to disseminate findings and share tools and resources with professionals and communities.