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Integrating and Focusing Local Resources to Impact Community Health: Using a Driver Diagram to Facilitate Effective Collaboration between Health Care and Public Health Focusing on Antibiotic Stewardship
The framework for successful collaboration to be discussed focused on engaging the health care and public health communities to address appropriate use of antibiotics in three jurisdictions. Overuse and misuse of antibiotics, and prescribing broad-spectrum drugs when they are not needed, are causing a wide range of problems globally. A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that overuse of antibiotics is attributing to antibiotic resistant bacteria, making antibiotics far less effective worldwide. A Public Health Antibiotic Stewardship Driver Diagram was developed and tested to help promote alignment of health care and public health efforts to increase appropriate antibiotic use. Successes and success factors of this initiative will be discussed during this session.
Participants of this session also will have the opportunity to work in small groups using three quality improvement (QI) tools to explore: 1) some of the driving and restraining forces to health care and public health collaboration on an important community health issue; 2) how to prevent failure once health care and public health collaboration is established using a Process Decision Program Chart; and 3) how to use a Driver Diagram to map out an intervention with a public health or health care partner.
The framework presented during this session can be utilized on any health issue where collaboration between health care and public health can result in improved community health.
Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadershipProgram planning
Protection of the public in relation to communicable diseases including prevention or control
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related public policy
Learning Objectives:
Describe how a driver diagram can be used to promote and sustain public health and health care collaboration
Name three quality improvement tools that can be used to develop and sustain partnerships
Identify driving and restraining forces that impact public health and health care collaboration
Keyword(s): Community-Based Health, Quality Improvement
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: 30 plus years of running major health care organizations using the principles described in the paper plus authoring 30 books and over 100 journal articles on the subject
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.