Survey on OHA Public Health State Health Improvement Plan Priorities

Are You 60+? We Value Your Voice!

The Oregon State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) is a roadmap for improving health across our state. The goal is simple: to ensure every Oregonian—at every stage of life—has the opportunity to achieve their best possible health.

To make this plan truly effective, we need to hear from you. We want to raise the voices of older adults across the state. Your input will help shape the 2025-2029 State Health Improvement Plan so that it reflects real community needs and priorities.

Your input matters! All responses will remain anonymous. Please submit your response by April 16, 2025.

For a printable version of this survey, click here. Para una encuesta en español, haga clic aquí.

Please review these 7 priorities for the Oregon State Health Improvement Plan before completing the survey below.

1. Healthy Environments

Keeping Oregon’s air, water, and communities clean and safe. This includes reducing health risks from pollution, extreme weather, and environmental hazards where people live, work, and spend time.

2. Emergency preparedness and response

Ensuring Oregon is ready to respond to public health emergencies, like wildfires, extreme weather, or disease outbreaks—so help is available quickly, no matter where you live.

3. Health across the lifespan

Health and prevention needs change with factors like age, life circumstances, and environment. These needs are met with policies and programs that keep people healthy and prevent illness.

4. Disease prevention and health promotion

Prevention of chronic diseases (like heart disease and diabetes), acute medical events, and communicable diseases (like the flu) is the foundation of public health work.

5. Physical, mental, and community safety

Everyone deserves safety and to be treated with dignity. This priority focuses on preventing and addressing violence, abuse, and unsafe conditions in our homes and communities.

6. Mental well-being and behavioral health

Ensuring mental and behavioral health care is accessible to all and delivered in culturally and linguistically appropriate ways. Public health creates policies and practices that focus on preventing problems and finding solutions that help individuals and the whole community.

7. Equitable social conditions

Conditions in the places where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and grow old can have a big impact on our health, well-being, and quality of life. While public health can’t control all of these factors, it’s important to recognize them and try to include them in our work whenever we can.

Please complete the survey below and be sure to click “Submit Survey” to ensure your responses are recorded. A confirmation message will appear once your submission is received.