Workstream 1: Individual and Community Health Goals
The orienting reference points for every decision and action taken within the health system.
Problem Statement
The aim of health organizations is to foster the attainment of the health and well-being goals most important to each person served, catalyzed by community actions and initiatives that maximize equitable attainment of those goals. Too often, actions are driven by the convenience or perspectives of decisionmakers, without the due diligence needed to understand and engage those goals directly.
Workstream Charge
The Individual and Community Health Goals workstream will uplift alignment challenges, opportunities, and impacts related to meaningfully engaging individuals and communities in all health-related decisions that affect them. Workstream members will produce a background paper that will inform Commission deliberations on the associated opportunities, priorities, and implications dependent on correcting the alignment of values, incentives, policies, and actions.
The paper will:
- review the status of and trends for the meaningful engagement of individuals and communities in the full spectrum of decisions that impact their health;
- describe how lack of engagement contributes to health shortfalls at the local, state, and national levels;
- identify salient contributors to the problem;
- identify accountability disconnects;
- estimate the health and economic costs of maintaining the status quo;
- estimate the potential health and economic gains to be attained by better alignment between organizational and governmental decisions and the goals and needs of the people affected;
- identify legal, regulatory, or cultural levers to drive the change from where we are now to a better future state; and
- describe promising strategies for marshaling the will to deploy the necessary levers at the right place, at the right time.
Workstream Members
Chairs
Ex officio (Culture Inclusion and Equity Action Collaborative co-chairs)
Members
Contact Information
Questions?
For additional information on workstream activities, contact Julie Tarrant ([email protected]) and Asia Williams ([email protected]).
