273166 Community-centered health homes: Bridging the gap between health services and community prevention

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 : 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Larry Cohen, MSW , Prevention Institute, Oakland, CA
     
The passage of Affordable Care Act has brought about an important time of innovation in the health system. One key opportunity is to integrate clinical service delivery with community prevention in order to reduce demand for resources and services; improve health, safety, and equity outcomes; and provide medical providers with skills and strategies to change the social circumstances that shape the health of their patients.

Learning Areas:
Clinical medicine applied in public health
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
1. Promote community health even as they deliver high quality medical services to individuals. 2. Identify the key elements and potential implications of the Community Centered Health Homes model.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: as founder and Executive Director of Prevention Institute, I help to develop links between clinical care and community prevention, advance a deeper understanding of how community factors shape health outcomes and provide resources, conceptual frameworks, and tools to help communities address health inequities and prevent injuries, violence, and chronic disease.
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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