Chester County has this month published its RoadMAPP to Health, a five-year action plan for improving the health and quality of life of county residents.

If you haven’t read the RoadMAPP, it has set five health priorities for the county and its community partners.  These are improving cultural competence and correcting health disparities; coordinating behavioral and physical health; boosting awareness of community resources; improving individual health management and disease prevention; and fostering safe and healthy environments.

Within those goals are many specific objectives to improve the health of county citizens.  By 2017, for example, the county wants a 3 percent decrease in homeless and for 77 percent of job seekers who have received workforce training to be and stay employed for at least six months.

The county also wants to enhance emergency call dispatching by ensuring that by 2017 90 percent of all 911 calls are dispatched within 2 minutes.  It also calls for 500 trainings for emergency management personnel by 2019.

There are also goals to develop more partnerships among organizations providing prenatal services, and to increase open park land – as well as the hours parks are open and patrolled.

The full Community Health Improvement Plan may be read online here.