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Integration of Primary Care and Public Health in Rural Kansas


Tuesday, November 3, 2015 : 1:25 p.m. - 1:40 p.m.

Robert Moser, MD, Strategic Business Development, The University of Kansas Hospital, Westwood, KS

Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
The fields of primary care and public health in the United States largely have functioned independently of each other for the last century. The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) presents new opportunities to integrate these two sectors and change the way the nation improves health. In a recent report, the Institute of Medicine identified current efforts to integrate primary care and public health including a shared objective of improving population health by involving the community in defining and addressing its needs. To explore what it takes to link primary care and public health, this session will discuss current evidence-based strategies and promising practices underway to integrate community and clinical preventive services and their impact on improving community health to become the healthiest nation in a generation.

Learning Areas:

Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines

Learning Objectives:
Discuss the methodologies of convening stakeholders to explore examples of effective integration of primary care and public health through preventive activities that were identified in Kansas. Discuss challenges in integrating primary care and public health and how these challenges can be addressed through public health and primary care through community health assessments and community health improvement planning. Identify three strategies/interventions that you will promote in integrating primary care and public health across all sectors.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have 22 years as a county health officer, 4 years as the Kansas Health Officer and Secretary of the Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment. I have an academic appointment as clinical associate professor of public health practice in the University of Kansas School of Medicine, Dept. of Preventive Medicine and Public Health.
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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