The Community and Clinical Preventive Services
(CCPS) program aims to reduce the impact of obesity and related
chronic diseases on the state of Texas by focusing on clinical and community
systems-level enhancements.
Activities help clinical staff and community-based
providers:
- prevent obesity and related chronic diseases.
- reduce or eliminate risk factors.
- detect chronic diseases early.
- mitigate or manage complications.
- empower individuals and families to reduce or eliminate
risk factors and self-manage their obesity or related chronic disease.
Use of coordinated, evidence-based preventive services
in community and clinical settings can lead to: effective disease management,
improved communication and treatment along the continuum of care, reduction of
healthcare costs and out-of-pocket expenses and improved population health
outcomes.
Key CCPS Initiatives
Community and Clinical Health Bridge (CCHB)
The CCHB project works in partnership with fourteen local
health departments in high priority Texas counties to provide funding and
expertise to expand the capacity of local public health systems. The goal is to
reduce obesity and related chronic disease and increase healthy eating and
physical activity.
Statewide priorities are to:
- Develop community-clinical referral mechanisms for
improved obesity and related chronic disease systems of care.
- Facilitate evidence-based education and training for
providers, patients, and communities to ensure consistent messaging of reliable
health information and collaboration.
- Reduce barriers to accessing healthcare for prevention
of disease, increased early detection and reduction of complications.
- Coordinate comprehensive data collection, analysis, and
management to evaluate activities and determine overall impact on health outcomes
at the population level.
- Engage community and clinical partners to strengthen
partnerships and increase sustainability.
- Encourage healthy lifestyles for individuals, families,
and communities through health promotion, outreach, and marketing.
The fourteen CCHB implementing agencies include:
- Angelina County & Cities Health District
- Hidalgo County Health and Human Resources
- City of Laredo Health Department
- Paris-Lamar County Health District and Red River County
- Wichita Falls-Wichita County Public Health District
- City of Amarillo Department
of Public Health
- Dallas County Health and Human Services
- City of El Paso Department of Public Health
- Milam County Health Department
- Waco-McLennan County Public
Health District
- Rusk County Health
Department
- Abilene-Taylor County Public
Health District
- Northeast Texas Public
Health District
- San Patricio County
Department of Public Health
The Electronic Tobacco Referral Protocol (eTP)
Through a partnership with the University of Texas at Austin,
the eTP project works to reduce the impact of tobacco and associated chronic
diseases on individuals, families, and communities. The eTP project aims to
enhance healthcare systems to improve tobacco use screening, counseling, and
Quitline referrals by training healthcare professionals, community health
workers (CHW) and health education staff on tobacco cessation and use of the Quitline
referral applications.
The eTP project strategies include:
- Identify and engage
healthcare systems to implement practice changes for tobacco screening,
counseling, and referral, targeting areas with the highest tobacco burden.
- Identify and engage
Electronic Health Record vendors to incorporate the eTP as an available process
for their subscribers to enable sustainable practice changes.
- Train CHWs to use the Help
to Quit mobile app to increase referrals, targeting areas and populations with
the highest tobacco burden to address disparities.
- Work with healthcare systems
to increase their use of eTP and Ask Advise Refer options, targeting geographic
areas with the highest tobacco burden to address disparities.
- Provide technical assistance to healthcare
systems, Promotora/CHWs, health education staff and others, as needed, to
support their tobacco cessation efforts.
For more
information on CCPS initiatives, please contact the Obesity Prevention Program.