4092.0: Tuesday, November 18, 2003: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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| It takes a public health infrastructure and strong partnerships to achieve the broadest definition of community health and wealth. This session will examine the impact of additional burdens such as bioterrorism preparedness and rising Medicaid costs on our public health infrastructure capacity over the past several years, and describe current initiatives to measure public health system capacity at the state, tribal, local, and governance levels. The session will also focus on successful strategies to build systems and partnerships that can more effectively and measurably create health and lead to improved sustainable public health infrastructure capacity. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to describe the impact of health care costs and security concerns on an already strained system, and to articulate the need for a different approach to creating community health. 2. Participants will be able to outline the current community structures leading to less optimal health, and to name three strategic partners in creating more successful health systems. 3. Participants will be able to describe successful community health partnerships that have led to reduced health disparities and improved community health indicators. 4. Participants will be able to list at least five different indicators for measuring the health of communities, and identify at least 3 websites for more resources on creating successful community health systems. | |||
| Patricia I. Elliott, JD MPH Tyler Norris Jonathan Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA Kelly Taylor, MS, REHS | |||
| Sarah Kotchian, EdM, MPH, PHD | |||
| Organized by: | APHA-Special Sessions | ||
| CE Credits: | Pharmacy | ||