Catalysts for Action Toward Community Health (CATCH)

Research Area: Health policy, Public health systems
Keywords: Public health surveillance, Public health communication, Community health assessment

Principal Investigator: Patrick Remington and Bridget Booske

The goal of this project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and led by Patrick Remington and Bridget Booske, is to promote broad-based community health improvement in underserved communities in Wisconsin, through a low-cost health communication intervention. Specific project objectives are to
• Increase media advocacy knowledge and advocacy skills among the public health community
• Enhance community awareness among the local health community
• Increase earned media coverage of the results of the Rankings among Wisconsin's least healthy counties
• Increase awareness of the broad determinants of population health among local health and health care leaders
• Stimulate policy-makers and other community health leaders to engage in program and policy planning and implementation to improve community health and reduce health disparities.
More information is available at http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/uwphi/pha/catch.htm