State Health Plan: Resources
What Works for Health: This is a database of policies and programs to address community priorities. Each item includes an evidence rating and other details related to expected policy and/or program benefits and potential impact on health disparities. The database is curated by County Health Rankings and Roadmaps.
Governor’s Health Equity Council Report: The full report, titled “Building a Better Wisconsin: Investing in the Health and Well-being of Wisconsinites," describes the 20 recommendations to improve health equity adopted by the Governor’s Health Equity Council. The report also contains information about the roots of health inequities and the pressing need to address them.
BARHII Framework: This framework, developed by the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII), visualizes the cross-sectoral connectivity of upstream and downstream health factors and outcomes.
Policy System and Environmental Change Overview: This training course provides an overview of policy, systems, and environmental change strategies, why they are important and how to get started. The State Health Plan Team utilizes a policy, system, and environmental change (PSE change) approach to all efforts and initiatives. Many public health practitioners rely on PSE change as a critical tool to improve equity and health outcomes.
APHA Narrative Change Policy and Practice Brief: This resource walks the reader through policy and practice examples from across the country and provides a basic introduction to existing public narratives, why they are an important step towards achieving equitable health outcomes, and how they can shift.
Public Health 3.0: The Public Health 3.0 is a collaborative model that emphasizes the social determinants of health. It was developed by health practitioners to improve on past strategies that primarily focused on the work of health care and governmental health agencies. These resources from the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) describe Public Health 3.0’s five recommendations in action.
Collective Impact: Collective impact is a model that brings people together in a structured way to achieve social change. It represents a network of community members, organizations, and institutions that advance equity by aligning and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems-level change.
ASTHO Health-in-All Policies (HiAP) Resources: The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials’ (ASTHO) HiAP resources include reports, policy guides, tools, success stories, and briefs. ASTHO provides resources to support states and territories in their efforts to implement HiAP strategies.
HiAP Guide for State and Local Governments: This guide was created by the public health facilitators of the California Health in All Policies Task Force and is geared toward state and local government leaders engaging in intersectoral collaborations.
HiAP Evaluation Guidance for Local Health Departments: This evaluation tool by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) aims to provide local health departments, local government staff, and community-based organizations with example metrics to help build an evidence base for HiAP practice. A new iteration of the guidance is expected to be published in late fall of 2023.
Additional root cause analysis resources: From the Public Health Foundation (Solve the Real problem Using Root Cause Analysis), and from the Minnesota Department of Health (Root Cause Analysis Toolkit).