About Together! Healthy Knox.

A Community Approach to Better Health

Together! Healthy Knox* is about achieving a community in which every person who lives, works, attends school, worships or plays is a health person. With your help, this is an achievable goal.

Together! Healthy Knox aims to use a strategic process to make our current resources work smarter. Other communities have been very successful using this community approach to better health. For more information please click the NACCHO link below.

Knox County’s Community Approach to Better Health
Participation, Engagement and Empowerment are the central themes for success.

1) Identify –Knox County Health Department has gathered local data and health information in order to create a comprehensive snapshot of our health and quality of life.  In 2009, community members were asked to participate in a survey and several focus groups around the county to give input about health concerns
and strengths.

2) Prioritize – Organizations, businesses, residents and community leaders came together in May 2010 to form a partnership with the goal of making a lasting positive impact on health priorities affecting our entire community.  In spring 2011, after gathering more local health data this partnership identified three strategic issues for health improvement in Knox County:

    1. How can we create a sustainable network of partnerships that effectively contributes to improved community health?
    2. How can we achieve equitable health outcomes(link to equity team page) for all community members?
    3. How can we position health as a consideration in all community policy and planning decisions?

The partnership convened a public meeting on May 19, 2011 to present these issues and ask community leaders to engage and form Action Teams to address them. 

3) Act – The three Action Teams will spend fall 2011 and spring 2012 developing action plans to empower partners from throughout the community to play a role in addressing Knox County’s health priorities.  Improving the health of our community will take us all working together!

Please participate. All our voices matter.

*Together! Healthy Knox uses Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP), a model developed by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), for a planned approach to improve health and quality of life.

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