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Since 1999, the Michigan Association of Health Plans Foundation and the Michigan Department of Community Health have collaborated in a series of Taking On projects in chronic disease, addressing asthma, cancer, diabetes, stroke, tobacco use and weight.  These outreach and education award-winning initiatives have sought to develop consistent recommendations, known as Core Measures, related to each of these chronic diseases and risk factors.  The projects have developed tools and resources for both providers and the public to facilitate implementation of the recommendations. These resources can be ordered using the Taking on Chronic Disease Order Form.

In 2003, the MAHP Foundation adopted a proposal to restructure its board and administrative structure to facilitate efforts toward several objectives:

  • Stimulating health plans to achieve their prevention and health education goals in conjunction with their communities; and documenting and publicizing the outcomes from those partnerships;
  • Linking health plan initiatives in disease management protocols and programs, with particular emphasis on assessing their outcomes and disseminating the findings;
  • Creating better alignment between medical and allied medical training programs and the managed care approaches of the "real world."

By the year's end, the Foundation plans to complete the process necessary to expand the Foundation Board to include representation from academic, employer, media and advocacy sectors, helping it to identify opportunities for Foundation projects and partnerships.

In 2004, Foundation efforts have addressed the need to streamline and improve operations of these six separate projects related to asthma, cancer, diabetes, tobacco, stroke and weight, creating a single oversight committee and administrative structure for the projects, creating a single Taking on Chronic Disease project. 

The Taking on Chronic Disease project is now working in concert with the Surgeon General’s Primary Care Initiative for a Healthy Michigan in a pilot project focused on improving systems in primary care practice settings.  The project goal, as stated in the project work plan, is:

  • To improve the integration of evidence based medicine into office practice systems by implementing targeted, provider based interventions that:
    • lead to prevention, early diagnosis, treatment, and management of chronic disease;
    • reduce complications of chronic disease over time; and
    • improve office efficiency and cost-effectiveness of care.
These targeted provider based interventions will concentrate on the Surgeon General's prescription for health (nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco use) and on asthma.

Webmistress: Gail Campana, Director of Education/Communications: gcampana@mahp.org