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Speaking Truth to Power: How the Affordable Care Act's Prevention Platform Can Be Leveraged to Transform Behavioral Health Practice

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Monday, November 17, 2014 : 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Ron Manderscheid, PhD , National Association of County Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Directors, Washington, DC
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
 Ron Manderscheid, PhD will discuss efforts to transform behavioral healthcare practice by adding public health practices and strategies to the clinical orientation of this discipline. He will describe how the Affordable Care Act’s behavioral health promotion and mental Illness prevention strategies contribute to the transformation.

Learning Areas:

Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Biostatistics, economics
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Provision of health care to the public
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Describe how behavioral healthcare practice will be transformed by adding public health practices and strategies to the clinical orientation of this discipline. Describe how the Affordable Care Act’s behavioral health promotion and mental Illness prevention strategies contribute to the transformation of behavioral health practice.

Keyword(s): Chronic Disease Prevention, Community Health Planning

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Executive Director of the National Association of County Behaviora Health & Devopmental Disability Directors.
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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