“Consortium sets goals to make La Crosse healthiest county in Wisconsin” |
| Consortium sets goals to make La Crosse healthiest county in Wisconsin Posted: 04 Mar 2011 03:26 PM PST Healthy food choices, physical activity, education and mental health issues are part of action plans in 2011 to help La Crosse County become one of the healthiest in Wisconsin. The La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium is coordinating a countywide initiative aimed at improving the health of county residents in four areas - chronic disease, mental health, injury and violence, and infectious disease. At the annual health summit Friday, partners and coalitions laid out goals to be accomplished this year. Among the goals: -- Increase the number of uninsured or underinsured adults who receive cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure screenings. -- Increase the number of people who eat five servings of fruits or vegetables a day. -- Encourage groups which hold food drives for the Hunger Task Force of La Crosse to request healthier donations. The task force hopes to see an increase in the 25,000 donated pounds of food from the Share the Bounty Farmer's Market program. -- Reduce Chapter 51 emergency detentions to less than 500 by 2015. -- Increase public awareness of suicide as a public health problem and reduce the stigma associated with mental heath. -- Increase number of children walking and biking to school, and educate parents and child-care providers on the importance of physical activity. -- Reduce number of sexually transmitted infections. -- Increase seasonal flu vaccination rates. Cindy Kartman, chairwoman of the consortium population health committee, said the goal is to make La Crosse County the healthiest county in the state by 2015. "We continue to build relationships and work toward this goal," Kartman said. "We want the healthiest county we can be." La Crosse County was No. 22 in the 2010 healthiest county rankings. The 2011 rankings will be released later this month. Friday's meeting focused on communication of the committees' action plans, which include telling stories of those people impacted by injury and violence and reaching people ages 12 to 15 about chronic disease prevention. Social media including Facebook and YouTube were suggested as good ways to send out prevention messages. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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