Ideas at work

Steps to a Healthier Minneapolis
Aims to help people improve their health and reduce the burden of obesity, diabetes, and tobacco.
Minnesota e-Health Initiative
Works to improve public health by empowering consumers, connecting healthcare providers and enhancing the infrastructure.
Citizen’s League Medical Facilities Study Committee
Seeks to determine the needs for hospitals and medical facilities in Minnesota and come up with a process that links health care demand with facility need.
Buyer’s Health Care Action Group
Coalition of public and private businesses promoting lower health care costs for employers while improving the quality of health care.
First Lady’s Heart Health Awareness Campaign
Resources for women about heart disease and heart disease prevention.
Minnesota Healthy Minnesotans Initiative
Public Health improvement goals set in 2004.
Twin Cities Healthy Start
Aims to reduce infant mortality in African-American and American Indian communities.

Listed below are proven, effective strategies linked to reports that provide data and information about how the strategies were implemented.

Access to care (1)
- Health care access for uninsured adults: a strong safety net is not the same as insurance
  The Urban Institute, January 2002, 8 pp.
  Examines the extent to which differences in the safety-net environment account for differences in the uninsureds’ access to and use of health care.
Early diagnosis and treatment (2)
- Guide to community prevention service
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, June 2005, 2 pp.
  Evidence based recommendations for improving the use of breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening.
- Eliminate disparities in diabetes
  Center for Disease Control, November 1999
  Hispanics, African Americans and American Indians are several more times likely to have diabetes than Whites. This web page provides promising strategies fro decreasing the overall rate of complications from diabetes.