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Rural Healthy People: Value and Use of Leading Health Indicators

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 : 12:30 PM - 12:45 PM

Gail Bellamy, PhD , Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
Rural America is a heterogeneous amalgam of communities, environments, economies, and people.  How does public health assure that improvements in health accrue to the smallest and most far-flung of communities across the huge terrain that is the United States?  Healthy People’s Leading Health Indicators (LHIs) are an attempt to monitor specific changes nationally but the data sources associated with these objectives does not capture rural in a way to make subgroups studies feasible.  A 2013 Delphi survey conducted by the RHP2020 Project attempted to identify rural priorities from among the 26 LHI objectives with one goal of advocating for expanded data collection to represent rural.  Survey participants included representatives from every Census Region and from four stakeholder groups (providers, academics, community advocates, and policy people).

Learning Areas:

Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Diversity and culture

Learning Objectives:
Define the parameters of a Delphi survey. Describe the aims of the Delphi survey. Discuss the implications of the RHP2020 effort and Delphi results as these relate to public health practice in their states/communities.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I direct the Florida Blue Center for Rural Health Research and Policy at the FSU College of Medicine. I am co-director of the Rural Healthy People 2020 Project and lead investigator on the RHP2020 Delphi Survey being presented. I have a doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. I am a past President of the National Rural Health Association and am currently a member of APHA’s Executive Board.
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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