Rural Active Living: A Call to Action

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• Alternative Title:
  J Public Health Manag Pract
• Personal Author:
  Meyer, M. Renée Umstattd ; Moore, Justin B. ; Abildso, Christiaan ; Edwards, Michael B. ; Gamble, Abigail ; Baskin, Monica L.
• Description:
  Public health climate change adaptation planning is an urgent priority requiring stakeholder feedback. The 10 Essential Public Health Services can be applied to adaptation activities.|To develop a state health department climate and health adaptation plan as informed by stakeholder feedback.|With Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) implemented a 2010-2013 climate and health planning process, including 7 surveys on perceptions and adaptation priorities.|New York State Department of Health program managers participated in initial (n = 41, denominator unknown) and follow-up (72.2%) needs assessments. Surveillance system information was collected from 98.1% of surveillance system managers. For adaptation prioritization surveys, participants included 75.4% of NYSDOH leaders; 60.3% of local health departments (LHDs); and 53.7% of other stakeholders representing environmental, governmental, health, community, policy, academic, and business organizations. Interviews were also completed with 38.9% of other stakeholders.|In 2011 surveys, 34.1% of state health program directors believed that climate change would impact their program priorities. However, 84.6% of state health surveillance system managers provided ideas for using databases for climate and health monitoring/surveillance. In 2012 surveys, 46.5% of state health leaders agreed they had sufficient information about climate and health compared to 17.1% of LHDs (P = .0046) and 40.9% of other stakeholders (nonsignificant difference). Significantly fewer (P < .0001) LHDs (22.9%) were incorporating or considering incorporating climate and health into planning compared to state health leaders (55.8%) and other stakeholders (68.2%). Stakeholder groups agreed on the 4 highest priority adaptation categories including core public health activities such as surveillance, coordination/collaboration, education, and policy development.|Feedback from diverse stakeholders was utilized by NYSDOH to develop its Climate and Health Strategic Map in 2013. The CDC Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) framework and funding provides a collaborative model for state climate and health adaptation planning.
• Subjects:
  Administrative Personnel Climate Change Environmental Health Feedback Health Planning Humans Public Health Surveys And Questionnaires
• Source:
  J Public Health Manag Pract. 22(5):E11-E20.
• Pubmed ID:
  25837328
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4775461
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  5U38HM000414/HM/NCHM CDC HHS/United States ; 5UE1EH000737/EH/NCEH CDC HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; United States
• Volume:
  22
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:702b0fdae360824d46c1e7c87e783edd8e3fb53be984735d788fc696be3dc915
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/40589/cdc_40589_DS1.pdf
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