Initiatives

  • Oral Health 2014 Initiative

    IMPH is supporting 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 is convening stakeholders and performing 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 partnered with IMPH to provide support for the development of a sodium intake reduction strategy in South Carolina.

  • The Community Guide

    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 support 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.

  • County Health Rankings: Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH)

    IMPH is a proud partner of the County Health Rankings: Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) project. 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.

  • Health Impact Assessments (HIA)

    A Health Impact Assessment is a combination of procedures, methods, and tools that systematically judges the potential, and sometimes unintended, effects of a policy, plan, or project on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population. HIA identifies appropriate actions to manage those effects.

  • 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.

  • Long-Term Care Forum

    The Forum examines the priority issues affecting long-term care in South Carolina. The resulting strategic planning group is now merged with the Long-Term Care working group of the Affordable Care Act Implementation Initiative.

News

Events

  • February 27, 2012
    Quality and Outcomes Workgroup Meeting
  • March 5, 2012
    Sodium Intake Reduction Initiative Meeting
  • March 26, 2012
    Health Impact Assessment Training
  • April 3, 2012
    NNPHI Inaugural National Health Impact Assessment Meeting
  • SCPHA Public Health Month Kick-Off Celebration

    • Focus on South Carolina

    • The South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health (formerly the South Carolina Public Health Institute) conducted a focus group study among key constituencies to explore their perspectives on health insurance coverage, marketplace considerations and the type of exchange that South Carolina could have.

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