Resources

Partnering With Accountable Care Organizations for Population Health Improvement – Issue Brief [PDF-912KB] This issue brief describes accountable care organizations (ACOs) and how public health agencies and communities can work with ACOs to improve community health outcomes, specifically for older adults.

Patient Centered Medical Homes – How Public Health Practitioners Can Support PCMHs [PDF-1.56MB] This guide describes patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) and suggests how public health practitioners can support them in prevention work.

Understanding Value-Based Insurance Design – Issue Brief [PDF-903KB] This brief provides public health practitioners with an overview of the value-based insurance design (V-BID) approach, which structures health insurance in a way that incentivizes and drives patients and providers toward services that are most beneficial relative to costs.

Utilizing Lay and Clinical Community Health Workers to Address Untreated Hypertension –Case Study [PDF-889KB] This case study describes the role of lay and clinical community health workers in identifying patients with hypertension and helping them access individualized care services. It provides background information and briefly summarizes the rationale for addressing the issue of hypertension.

Working with Primary Care Practices to Improve Care for Cardiovascular Disease – Case Study [PDF-3.38MB] This case study describes how the North Carolina Division of Public Health and its partners used Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding to work with primary care practices to improve clinical and preventive care for patients at risk for cardiovascular disease.

Communication Planning Tool [Word-53.1KB] The Communication Planning Tool will help you plan paid, earned, partner, and digital/social media efforts over a 12 month period. Using this tool will help support and sustain program initiatives.

State and Community Health Media Center (Media Center) Online repository of tested advertisements and marketing materials about preventing obesity and chronic conditions produced by CDC and state and local health departments.

Success Stories Application Use this free online tool to share the health impact of your work in creating sustainable environmental changes that address tobacco-free living, healthy eating, active living, and preventive services.

Testing Core Community Health Messages with the Public [PDF-319KB] This executive summary of research findings details the Division of Community Health’s efforts to better understand how to effectively communicate with the public about community health and relevant issues.

Built Environment Assessment Tool Manual This manual helps individuals measure the core features of the built environment that affect health in their community—especially walking, biking, and other types of physical activity—and the quality of those features.

Collaborating with Community Health Workers to Enhance the Coordination of Care and Advance Health Equity – Issue Brief [PDF-2.3MB] This brief examines how community health workers (CHW) can help address rising health care costs and poor health among underserved communities. It describes CHWs, their work settings, and the services that they provide and offers guidance on how public health practitioners can collaborate with CHWs to better coordinate health care and advance health equity.

Practitioner’s Guide for Advancing Health Equity This resource helps communities address disparities by making improvements where people live, learn, work, and play. It discusses skills and strategies for tobacco-free living, healthy food and beverages, and active living.

An Introduction to Impact Investing in Public Health [PDF-1.18MB] This document introduces health departments and health-promoting community organizations, nonprofits, and businesses to impact investing terms, concepts, examples, and resources. It is a starting point for exploring impact investments as a tool for diversifying funding sources and improving sustainability.

Planning for and Selecting High-Impact Interventions to Improve Community Health – A Guide to Applying Logic Models to Community Health Interventions [PDF-1.59MB] This guide will help community health planning coalitions and other planning groups to use logic models to identify high-impact, evidence-based interventions to improve community health.

Sustainability Guide [PDF–44M] This Guide provides science- and practice-based evidence to help public and community health professionals develop a sustainability plan and learn key sustainability approaches.

Community Health Online Resource Center (CHORC) This database of resources provides practice-based tools that support environmental improvements in communities. Resources include webinars, toolkits, guides, fact sheets, and other practical materials.