Public Health Improvement Process (PHIP)
Working Together for a Healthy Boulder County
Boulder County Public Health (BCPH) is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of all people and the environment in Boulder County. We do this work daily with our partners through our programs and interventions.
In addition to this work, as part of our Public Health Improvement Process, we have partnered with other community organizations and stakeholders to identify three specific areas of strategic focus to improve the health of our county over the next five years. The three focus areas were prioritized from over 40 key health issues using local health data and by assessing the magnitude, severity, and actionability of each issue.
Focus Areas
- Increasing healthy eating and active living
- Improving the health and reducing obesity of children aged 0–17
- Improving mental health (including depression and suicide)
- Reduce suicide
- Reduce post-partum depression
- Improve early childhood social and emotional development
- Reducing substance abuse
- Reduce marijuana use
- Reduce prescription drugs abuse
- Reduce alcohol use
Guiding Principles
The impetus for selecting only three priority areas for the Public Health Improvement Process was to allow the community and BCPH to dive deep into key issues to make impactful change. The process is guided by Collective Impact principles. The term Collective Impact Principles refers to a set of principles that have been used by exemplary community projects - examples of processes that were able to significantly improve important community outcomes such as increasing high school graduation rates, reduce youth substance abuse, and increase physical activity among youth. The term was coined by Mark Kramer and John Kania and was also studied by the White House Council for Community Solutions.
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