Wisconsin State Health Plan 2010
Tracking Health Conditions
Identifying Health Conditions; Relationship to Health Priorities
The Wisconsin State Health Plan is a statewide policy and planning
process to transform Wisconsin's public health system for the 21st
century. This transformation includes addressing the underlying causes
of illness, injury, premature death, and disability. As part of
developing the State Health Plan, hundreds of conditions affecting the
health of the people of Wisconsin were compiled and analyzed using an
innovative, data-guided epidemiologic model. This process resulted in
the identification of priority health conditions based on the highest
scores for magnitude and severity.
Each of these health conditions was analyzed by over 700 experts in
the fields of public health, medicine, social sciences, and
environmental health for the purpose of determining the underlying
causes, using the following four determinants: (1) individual risk
factors, (2) non-modifiable risk factors, (3) societal risk factors, and
(4) environmental risk factors.
Based on this expert review, the conditions were organized and
rank-ordered by risk factors. Finally, through collaborative processes
with the public health system partners, the risk factors were translated
into the 11 health priorities of the State Health Plan. These priorities
influence both health and illness in Wisconsin's population; each has
behavioral, environmental, and societal dimensions. The 11 health
priorities reflect the root causes of illness, injury, premature death,
and disability in Wisconsin.
The relationship between specific health conditions and the State Health Plan
health priorities is depicted in a
grid, available as either a
read-only document (PDF, 49 KB) or a
data file
(Excel, 40 KB). The grid shows which health conditions
can be expected to decrease in prevalence or severity when a given health priority is
addressed.
For more information, please refer to the State Health Plan,
Healthiest Wisconsin 2010
(PDF, 815 KB)
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Last Revised: June 25, 2008
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