State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) Implementation Guide
This email is being sent to local health officers, Tribal health directors, and key DHS staff.
Message from State Health Officer, Paula Tran
Dear Local and Tribal health colleagues,
The 2023–2027 State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) Implementation Guide is now live on the Wisconsin Department of Health Services website. This guide builds on the foundational shifts and priority areas identified through the 2020 State Health Assessment and follow-up 2023–2027 State Health Improvement Plan development conversations held with local health departments, Tribal health partners[NJMD1] , community-based organizations, state agencies, health care organizations, and others across Wisconsin. It describes improvement objectives and strategies, as well as ways current and potential partners can engage and align their work with SHIP priorities. We’ve developed this together, for our collective use, and I encourage you to apply it to your action planning, especially your efforts to advance health equity.
Health-equity focus
The framework centers health equity by focusing on foundational shifts and priority areas for promoting individual, community, and population health. It is essential that we pursue foundational shifts towards institutional and systemic fairness, equitable representation and access to decision-making, and community-centered resources and services. All of these factors impact health upstream.
Collaborative and meaningful implementation
The SHIP Implementation Guide establishes a strong foundation on which partners across the state may work to address the immediate health and well-being issues facing Wisconsinites, prevent future issues, and reduce disparities. Developing workgroups, coalitions, and other collective action will be essential to sustainable improvement, as is the meaningful inclusion of affected communities in the planning and implementation of improvement strategies.
Our plan joins a growing movement
Our path forward echoes similar recommendations of recent publications like local CHIPs, the UW-Madison Population Health Institute’s Population Health and Equity Report Card, Minority Health Report, and the Governor’s Health Equity Council Report. Leading reports and research, such as these, have invariably and consistently shown how measures of the burden of chronic and acute diseases, the rates of death and illness, and health-related behaviors vary by age, income, race, and so many other ways society classifies and characterizes people. They also consistently point to the evidence-based and community-driven solutions and roadmap to making Wisconsin a place where all residents thrive.
We hope you will find the published SHIP Implementation Guide useful to your jurisdiction’s community health and health equity endeavors and look forward to hearing feedback on its use going forward. Thank you again for your continued and tireless efforts to advance equity in the state and ensure that everyone in Wisconsin has the opportunity to live their best life.
Yours in collaboration,
Paula Tran
State Health Officer and Administrator
Division of Public Health
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
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