Healthy Baltimore 2015

Vision

A city where all residents realize their full health potential.

Priority Areas

Healthy Baltimore 2015 sets ambitious yet reachable improvement goals for the following priority areas:

  1. Promote Access to Quality Health Care for All
  2. Be Tobacco Free
  3. Redesign Communities to Prevent Obesity
  4. Promote Heart Health
  5. Stop the Spread of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections
  6. Recognize and Treat Mental Health Needs
  7. Reduce Drug Use and Alcohol Abuse
  8. Encourage Early Detection of Cancer
  9. Promote Healthy Children and Adolescents
  10. Create Health Promoting Neighborhoods

Reporting

Each of these priority areas has measurable objectives for improvement with leading indicators that will be tracked and reported on annually. The priority areas are all equally important and are not listed in any particular rank order. Click here to download a copy of the Healthy Baltimore 2015 report.  In 2013 an Interim Status Report detailing the City's progress toward achieving the Healthy Baltimore 2015 goals was published.

The Importance of Partners

Healthy Baltimore 2015 recognizes that individuals and communities must have the opportunity to make choices that impact their health regardless of race, income, or education. This agenda for change also acknowledges that a local public health department cannot successfully implement the plan working alone. The success of Healthy Baltimore relies on the diverse partnerships of our neighborhoods, businesses, academic institutions, community-based organizations, non-profit agencies, medical institutions, foundations, and schools.

Partners can contribute to the success of Healthy Baltimore 2015 in many ways. These varying levels of engagement include, but are not limited to:

  1. Communication – displaying or distributing health information materials within each of the ten priority areas
  2. Facilitation – actively participating in interventions such as incorporating wellness at work programs into the business day. (Get started today - download and post our free fitness signage posters at your workplace! Available under "Resources".)
  3. Integration – actively considering the potential health impacts of pending business or policy decisions

Contact Information:

Shannon Mace Heller
Director, Office of Policy and Planning, Baltimore City Health Department
1001 E. Fayette St., Baltimore, MD 21202
(443) 401-8126