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Healthy Generations

Categories: Foster Public-Private Coverage Solutions

Through a grant from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation, LLC, the Plan is focusing on strategic initiatives that address and provide innovative solutions to help reduce the number of uninsured, as well as organizations and nonprofit charities that promote the Healthy Generations Program, a multi-generational initiative that targets specific disease states and medical conditions.  Specifically, Healthy Generations funds programs aimed at helping to improve several measures included in the State Health Index.  These measures include:

  • Increasing the percentage of mothers who engage in prenatal care during the first trimester of their pregnancies 
  • Decreasing the percentage of newborns who weigh less than 5.5 lbs 
  • Decreasing the coronary heart disease mortality rate 
  • Decreasing the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in adults 
  • Increasing the percentage of the population who meet the CDC’s recommended levels of physical activity 
  • Decreasing the incidence of childhood obesity 
  • Decreasing the percentage of adults who smoke cigarettes 
  • Increasing the percentage of adults over age 65 who receive an influenza vaccine
  • Increasing the percentage of adults over age 65 who receive a pneumococcal vaccine