How SHIP Creates Health in Our Communities
Statewide Health Improvement Partnership (SHIP) supports community-driven solutions to expand opportunities for active living, healthy eating, mental wellbeing, and commercial tobacco-free living, helping all people in Minnesota prevent chronic diseases including cancer, heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. SHIP seeks to create policy, systems, and environmental changes to promote, support, and reinforce healthy behaviors.
SHIP Communities are Thriving Communities
SHIP helps build thriving communities, creating opportunities for all people in Minnesota to live longer, healthier lives. Ninety percent of the nation’s health care costs are for people with chronic conditions, and the majority of those costs are preventable.
SHIP is Statewide
SHIP is a comprehensive health strategy coordinated across all of Minnesota's 87 counties and 10 tribal nations. SHIP is statewide, with the Minnesota legislature providing $17.5 million in funding per year to support critical primary prevention activities led by local public and tribal health partners. The context areas for this round of funding include MN Eats, MN Moves, MN Breathes, and MN Well-being.