California Wellness Plan, 2014

​The goal of the California Wellness Plan is to improve equity in the health and well being of Californians. The plan's emphasis is on the elimination of preventable chronic disease, such as cancer, stroke, diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular and other diseases. To attain this, the following four goals were determined by partners through a collaborative statewide process:

1. Create healthy communities that promote healthy behaviors.
2. Build on strategic opportunities, current investments and innovations in the Affordable Care Act and expanded managed care to create a systems approach to improve patient and community health.
3. Expand access to comprehensive statewide data with flexible reporting capacity to meet state and local needs.
4. Collaborate with health care systems, providers and payers to show the value of greater investment in community-based prevention approaches that address underlying reasons for poor health and chronic disease.

California Health Interview Survey data are one of the sources the Plan will use to measure baselines and targets for various health objectives.

• California Department of Public Health