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Global Health Functions - Rationale and Implementation

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

Ehud Miron, MD , Ministry of Health, Israel, Nazareth, Israel
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
The Global Public Health Functions is a model consisting of seven functions/services which should be provided by any given public health system.  The use of a global model that allows some variation while maintaining the core elements allows performance measurement and comparison and provides a systematic model for examining the public health system at a national level.

Learning Areas:

Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe the GPHF framework and the rationale behind it. Explain the purpose of developing the GPHFs and the aims of global adoption for the GPHFs

Keyword(s): Public Health Curricula & Competencies, Health Systems Transformation

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the current chairman of the Global Public Health Framework Taskforce and I have been working on the GPHFs and other models of Public Health Functions used previously for the past 8 years.
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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