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Resources - Health Improvement

MI Healthier Tomorrow
MI Healthier Tomorrow encourages Michiganders to pledge to lose 10 percent of their body weight because losing just 10 percent can have significant improvements to both physical and mental health. After taking the online pledge, residents can receive a free Getting Started Kit in the mail along with the option to sign up for healthy texts and/or emails with motivational messages, reminders, tips, or recipes to help keep them focused on reaching their goal of losing weight and becoming healthier.

If your health department would like information about helping to promote the pledge and the materials on the partner page, please contact Geralyn Lasher lasherg@michigan.gov or Angela Minicuci at minicucia@michigan.gov

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Prevention Status Report - Policy Indicators
Highlights the status of seven public health concerns in Michigan including tobacco; nutrition, physical activity, and obesity; food safety; teen pregnancy; HIV; healthcare-associated infections; and motor vehicle injuries.

 

The Network for Public Health Law

Consent for Care and Confidential Health Information
Summary of the rights of minors to consent to various types of health care without the consent of knowledge of their parents. It also covers whether the law permits information concerning the minor's health care to be shared with the parent.

Legal Interventions for Environmental Hazards and Other Public Health Threats - Issue Brief
Intended to assist local health officers and their attorneys draft orders to protect the public from environmental hazards by identifying the elements for these orders. 

 

Community Commons

The Commons is an initiative of Advancing the Movement, reflects the significant power and distribution of the broad-based healthy/ livable/ sustainable communities' movement in our nation. It also brings a robust suite of free tools and resources dedicated to a healthier, more equitably prosperous, United States of America.

  • CONNECT - to people and places, view the Map of the Movement, and search initiative and member profiles.
  • VISUALIZE - new possibilities, access vast and powerful datasets, and create your own GIS maps.
  • ENGAGE - with peers and leaders, explore news and features, join groups.
  • SHARE - webinars, conferences, and learning events.