198059 Managing community health determinants: New partnerships and new strategies in national health reform

Monday, November 9, 2009: 9:10 AM

Ronald William Manderscheid, PhD , Global Health Sector, SRA International, Mental Health and Substance Use Programs, Rockville, MD
     
The HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Healthy People 2020 has presented a new framework to the public health field that focuses on social and physical health determinants and interventions necessary to change them. This presentation will review this work and examine specific implications for health administrators. Clearly, a focus on health determinants will dictate the development of new partnerships and new public health practices in local communities throughout the United States. These partnerships and practices will be explored, and the role of health administrators in fostering local healthy people communities of interest will be highlighted. Implications for costs of national health care will also be discussed.

Learning Objectives:
Identify major health promotion and disease prevention components of national health reform. Demonstrate the role of interventions for health determinants in improving community health. Describe new roles for health administrators in building new partnerships and introducing new community interventions that address health determinants and promote the goals of national health reform.

Keywords: Health Reform, Primary Prevention

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: NA

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am on the HHS Secretary's Advisory Committee on Healthy People 2020, and I have worked in both the Clinton Health Care Reform and the Obama National Health Reform efforts.
Any relevant financial relationships? Yes

Name of Organization Clinical/Research Area Type of relationship
SRA International Mental Health and Substance Use Employment (includes retainer)

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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