
Patchwork approach to community-based prevention.Only three other states spend less on public health than Ohio, limiting public health workforce and ability to proactively implement comprehensive approaches to our state’s greatest health challenges. Sparse public health workforce leads to missed opportunities for prevention These include trauma and adversity, toxic stress, violence and stigma, and inequitable access to resources.ģ. Ohioans experiencing the worst health outcomes are also more likely to be exposed to risk factors for poor health.This includes racist and discriminatory beliefs and interactions among Ohioans and structural racism and discrimination embedded within systems and across sectors, rooted in ageism, ableism, xenophobia, homophobia and other “isms” or “phobias.” Racism and other forms of discrimination drive troubling differences in outcomes across Ohio.Ohioans with the worst outcomes face systemic disadvantages



Facts & Figures (PowerPoint data graphics from the report for public use).Fact sheet: A closer look at public health and prevention.
Ohio dashboard series#
In addition, through a series of equity profiles, the Dashboard highlights gaps in outcomes between groups for some of Ohio’s most systematically disadvantaged populations. In ranked profiles, the Dashboard examines Ohio’s rank and trend performance relative to other states across seven domains. The Health Policy Institute of Ohio Health Value Dashboard is a tool to track Ohio’s progress toward health value - a composite measure of Ohio’s performance on population health outcomes and healthcare spending.
