Cleveland's Ward 2 Councilman shares his story in efforts to reduce stigma
The Behavioral Health Committee has released its second video in their series entitled ‘#ThereIsNoNormal’. In this short video, Councilman Zack Reed candidly responds to a series of head-on questions related to behavioral health, specifically alcoholism. In this clip you will hear Councilman Reed describe his experience, ending with a strong message of support. We are honored to share his story with you and thank him for standing up to stigma. Click here to learn more about the #ThereIsNoNormal project and to hear this inspiring interview.
What if you could save one life by sharing a documentary?
Chances are, you'd share it.
One Life, a feature-length documentary, explores root causes for Ohio's alarmingly high rates of infant mortality. And, with Ohio's black babies dying at more than twice the rate of its white babies, One Life uncovers some underlying issues that lead to worse birth outcomes for Ohio's black population.
To look at the health of our babies is to look at the health of our community. Be sure to read on and watch One Life here so that you can understand our community's problem with infant death and, in turn, become a part of the solution.
Healthy Neighborhoods Committee's animated video short seeks to engage residents around social determinants of health.
Health is about more than just healthcare. Not only is our health affected by the treatment we receive in a health clinic or doctor's office; it's also affected by our social, economic, and environmental conditions. We call these conditions social determinants of health.
But discussing social determinants of health can be complex. So our very own Healthy Neighborhoods Committee saw an opportunity to make the concepts surrounding social determinants of health easily digestible through an animated video short. View the short here!
Join in the discussion on how to make Cleveland a global leader in sustainability
Please join Sustainable Cleveland and Mayor Frank G. Jackson for the 8th Annual Sustainable Cleveland Summit. Summit attendees will include nearly 600 community and business leaders, government officials, students, representatives of our local labor forces, and residents working together to help transform Cleveland into a global sustainability leader by the year 2019. Read more here!
The Healthiest Cities and Counties Challenge
The Breathe Free committee has been in action over the last few months with exciting updates to share! It all started in March when Cleveland was invited and accepted to be an innovator city in the Healthiest Cities and Counties Challenge. Almost simultaneously the Department of Public Health received a small award to build capacity around tobacco point of sales strategies from NACCHO. Finally, in celebration of World No Tobacco Day, May 31s 2016, the Breathe Free Committee co-hosted an tobacco exposure and infant mortality awareness raising event at the Galleria at Erieview. Learn more here!
What can we do to #CloseHealthGaps in Cleveland?
The Cleveland Department of Public Health was one of several community partners who worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Center on Society and Health on a life expectancy project. A new Greater Cleveland area life expectancy map shows that opportunities to lead a long and healthy life vary dramatically by neighborhood. If you travel less than 10 miles from Cleveland’s northeastern neighborhoods to more affluent eastern outer-ring suburbs, life expectancy can differ by as much as 12 years. The map is part of a series from the VCU Center on Society and Health and RWJF, which includes maps from several large cities in the U.S. What can we do to #CloseHealthGaps across ZIP codes? Learn more here
January to June's reports on violence surveillance data has been released
Thanks to the Cleveland Department of Public Health Epidemiology Team, we have ability to regularly track incidences of health and other reasons for admission to our local Emergency Rooms. The medium for collecting this data occurs throught a program called EpiCenter. The EpiCenter Violence Surveillance Report was just released for January through June of 2016. Read more here
How can we help alleviate violence in our communities?
Healthy Cleveland Violence Committee member, Vino Sundaram, recently presented youth violence data by neighborhood and political ward to a national audience at the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists annual national conference in Anchorage, Alaska. The poster presentation highlighted youth violence data, with additional information about childhood lead poisoning and child poverty. The poster was nominated for a Best Poster award at the conference. Information from the poster will be used to provide guidance and direction to the public health model approach as noted in the Cleveland Plan for the National Forum on Youth Violence. Findings of the poster showed that Goodrich-Kirtland Park and St. Clair- Superior neighborhoods had among the highest rates of youth violence indicators, according to 2013 data from the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court. Political wards 1 and 7 have among the highest youth violence indicators. Read more here
*Vino is an epidemiologist with the Cleveland Department of Public Health. For more information, or a PDF version of the poster, please contact Vino Sundaram at vsundaram@city.cleveland.oh.us
Cleveland Department of Public Health welcomes Merle Gordon as new Director
In case you missed it-the Cleveland Department of Public Health welcomed Director Merle Gordon as the new Director of Public Health on June 13th, 2016. Read more here
Stay Active with Open Streets this Fall!
We know that exercising and spending time outside can keep us healthy, both mentally and physically. But it can sometimes feel like an unpleasant chore, especially if there are not convenient, safe, welcoming, and accessible places to be active. What if there were an opportunity right outside your door to meet new people, try new activities, and have fun while being healthy? Read more here
