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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 support 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 supports this initiative by convening, coordinating and evaluating a State Coalition that will provide state-level leadership and strategic direction for the initiative. -
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.
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Focus on South Carolina
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The South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health (IMPH) and the Piedmont Health Foundation convened stakeholders from Greenville area organizations on March 26, 2012 to provide training on the purpose and use of the health impact assessment (HIA) as a tool for incorporating health decisions into community decision making.
