274911 Mobilizing Community Wellness and Transforming Systems of Care through a Mobile Screening Program and Technology

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Nancy Brown-Connolly, RN, MSN, PhD, ABD , Global Health, Project HOPE, Albequerque, NM
     
The Project HOPE, Habits for Life program, is a mobile healthcare screening program with educational and telemedicine components integrated with community organizations with the goal of improving community wellness. Mobile technologies afford a means of increasing access to healthcare screening in underserved areas where they are unavailable. The use of mobile health clinics, in the Habits for Life program, is being integrated into the concept of preventative care at the community level.

Comprehensive health screening is a first step toward improving the health of a community. The concept of widespread community screening to identify risk, and give personal information on which to act, is one strategy that can play an important role in driving individuals to seek preventive or preemptive care before they are in a crisis. Results empower participants to make changes to improve their health status and are an opportunity to motivate people to address their health. Results provide agencies and healthcare provider organizations the tools they need to assess the overall health of the community.

The Habits for Life program is linking supportive services within the healthcare community of hospitals, clinic systems and government organizations through collaborative partnerships and supports the patient-centered medical home model through these relationships.

Our presentation will discuss results for the New Mexico program and strategies used to build health system capacity with our partner organizations.

Learning Areas:
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Program planning

Learning Objectives:
Identify critical components of community development for a mobile screening program. Identify planning components and collaborations necessary to implement a mobile screening program. Identify the challenges and opportunities for mobile health screenings.

Keywords: International Public Health, Telemedicine

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Currently the Director of the Program. Specialist in Telemedicine and health systems in the US and UK.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

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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