b'GREATER MONADNOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PLAN 2015-2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PLAN PRIORITY AREAS1.Behavioral Health5.Emergency Preparedness Behavioral health covers the full range of mental and emotional well-beingfrom daily stress and satisfaction to the treatment of mental illnesses.Natural, accidental, or even intentional public health threats are all around \x01Reduce risk factors that affect behavioral healthus. \x01Reducetheproportionofadultsexperiencingfrequentmentalhealth\x01IncreaseresilienceintheGreaterMonadnockRegionthrough distresspartnerships and volunteerism \x01Improve the management and distribution of medical countermeasures 2.Tobacco Use Tobacco use is the most preventable cause of death in the United States. 6.Cancer Prevention About 17.9% of the Regions adult population currently smokes. \x01Reduce the number of new cancer cases, as well as the illness, disability, \x01Reduce tobacco use by adults and death caused by cancer. \x01Prevent initiation of tobacco use by youth \x01Reduce cigarette smoking among pregnant women7.Healthy Mothers, Babies & Children \x01Reduce exposure to secondhand smoke\x01Improvethehealthandwell-beingofwomen,infants,children,and families 3.Substance & Alcohol Misuse Alcohol and other drug misuse pose one of the greatest risks to individual8.Heart Disease & Stroke and community health and safety.\x01Improvecardiovascularhealthandqualityoflifethroughprevention, Regional Network \x01Increase capacity to prevent substance misusedetection, and treatment of risk factors for heart attack and stroke\x01Increase connections between sectors9.Infectious Disease \x01Obtain new data sources \x01Increase public awareness\x01Increase immunization rates and reduce preventable infectious diseases Resiliency and Recovery Oriented System of Care \x01Enhance the effectiveness of system of care infrastructure10.Injury Prevention \x01Decrease alcohol and substance misuse\x01Preventunintentionalinjuriesandviolence,andreducetheir Substance Abuse Prevention consequences \x01Decrease prescription drug misuse \x01Decrease prescription11.Asthma \x01Increase the percent of children and adults with asthma who have well-4.Obesity Obesity increases the risk for many chronic diseases and impacts 26.7% ofcontrolled asthmathe Regions adult population. \x01Reduce adult obesity \x01Reduce childhood obesity \x01Increase the proportion of adults and children at a healthy weight 5'