Health Administration

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2007 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS APHA's Health Administration Section invites abstracts for the 2007 Annual Meeting in one of two general categories: (1) Papers examining the practice of management and leadership within the health system; and (2) Papers presenting original research on issues of organization, financing, management, and leadership within the health system. This section endorses a broad and inclusive view of the health system and welcomes papers examining administrative issues within or across any components of the system, including governmental public health agencies, private for-profit and nonprofit health care institutions, private and public health insurance, community-based and faith-based organizations, academia, business and industry. CATEGORY 1: PRACTICE OF MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP. This class of papers should emphasize innovations in management and leadership strategies applied within health settings, with a focus on identifying best practices, promising models for the future, and/or instructive failures that offer insight for improvement. Of particular interest are management and leadership strategies focused on expanding access, improving quality, promoting efficiency, and reducing disparities within public health and health care settings. Although these papers should focus on practice rather than research, simple procedural descriptions of one strategy in one setting without explicit consideration of the transportability and applicability of lessons learned are not of interest to this Section. CATEGORY 2: RESEARCH ON ORGANIZATION, FINANCING, MANAGEMENT, AND LEADERSHIP. This class of papers should present original research studies that investigate administrative and “system” issues within the health system. Of particular interest are studies that examine the implementation and/or impact of innovative administrative strategies involving such activities as organizational redesign, multi-institutional partnerships and alliances, financing and payment reforms, workforce development activities, and technology adoption and diffusion. Studies should employ rigorous research designs using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods, and study findings should generalize beyond the specific research setting to larger segments of the health system. Scientific investigations that lack accompanying reflection on the implications for practice are not appropriate for this Section. Abstracts submitted in either Category 1 or Category 2 should address one of the following topics: Advances in organizational design and management Community health practice in a changing political environment Community health workers that use the community based participatory research approach Community-based participatory research for health care administrators Community-based participatory research models Data collection, statistical analysis, a framework to measure performance of a public health system Disparities in Health in America's social justice system Distance learning for the public health workforce Executive management in health care information Financial risk in the health care industry: Emerging models for financial risk management Governance models for health organizations and delivery systems HIV agenda for the new administration Health care and new technology: New technological proficiencies for the health administrator Health care finance: Partnership, collaboration and/or solo? Health care governance: Leadership from the board room to the emergency room Health care in the new millennium: Politics, policy and public health Health care management - Lessons in leadership Health care policy: Age, gender and class Health dispariies: The effects of cultural diversity and cultural competency on access to care Health information: Politics and policy vs. privacy and confidentiality International Health Regulations: What Are They and What’s Required of the US Public Health Community? Marketing social change Medicaid, medicare, managed care: The complexities of healthcare delivery Model programs for community health practice Models for evaluating good public health practice New innovations in the 21st century telehealth and telemedicine for health care administration New strategies addressing employee safety in the workplace Organizational ethics in health care delivery Politics and policy in public health workforce development Public health care costs and decreasing budgets Public health management of disasters Public policies and immigrant health Public policy in aging Risk management in the 21st century The world as a global village: Fighting the new emerging diseases Vision 2020: Emerging models for new managed care orgainzations Abstracts addressing the APHA conference theme of "Politics, Policy and Public Health " are especially encouraged. Please click on the "Submit Abstract" link in the top right corner and select one of the topics above. If you are proposing multiple papers to comprise an entire panel or session (i.e. a session proposal), please consult with the program chair before submission; all such session proposals need to be approved by the program chair in advance.
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Program Planner Contact Information: Polly S. Turner, DrPH, MPH, RPH College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Texas Southern University 3100 Cleburne Ave. Nabrit Science Bldg., Room 202 Houston, TX 77004 Phone: 713-313-7265 pollyrx@aol.com and Gloria Brown McNeil, RN Community Health Consultant PO Box 321186 Houtson, TX 77221 Phone: 713-731-7119 mcneilg49@msn.com