The Women's Health Alliance Intervention Study is a community-based intervention study designed to determine if county-based coalitions can increase breast and cervical cancer screening rates among women aged 40 and older in four rural Wisconsin counties. This article describes the intervention process and demonstrates the feasibility of rural volunteer coalitions to promote breast and cervical cancer screening in communities. An accompanying article in this issue describes the effectiveness of these interventions.
{"title":"Women's Health Alliance Intervention Study: description of a breast and cervical cancer screening program.","authors":"L. Jaros, E. Eaker, P. Remington","doi":"10.1097/00124784-200107050-00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00124784-200107050-00005","url":null,"abstract":"The Women's Health Alliance Intervention Study is a community-based intervention study designed to determine if county-based coalitions can increase breast and cervical cancer screening rates among women aged 40 and older in four rural Wisconsin counties. This article describes the intervention process and demonstrates the feasibility of rural volunteer coalitions to promote breast and cervical cancer screening in communities. An accompanying article in this issue describes the effectiveness of these interventions.","PeriodicalId":296123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126210122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
For 84 years, The Control of Communicable Diseases Manual has provided public health practitioners with relevant and timely information on infectious diseases. An examination of the contents of the Manual's 17 editions provides insight into the changes in medical understanding of infectious diseases. This article provides an evolution of the manual and examines the diseases described in each edition.
{"title":"Evolution of the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual: 1917 to 2000.","authors":"C. Malloy, J. Marr","doi":"10.1097/00124784-200107050-00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00124784-200107050-00013","url":null,"abstract":"For 84 years, The Control of Communicable Diseases Manual has provided public health practitioners with relevant and timely information on infectious diseases. An examination of the contents of the Manual's 17 editions provides insight into the changes in medical understanding of infectious diseases. This article provides an evolution of the manual and examines the diseases described in each edition.","PeriodicalId":296123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114332054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Assessment Initiative enables state and local health departments to improve their capacity to use data for developing policy and ensuring that needed health services are provided. Using reports and comments submitted by staff from the participating states, lessons learned are summarized for the first funding period of the initiative. Although many activities were common among the participating states, the lessons learned varied for them. From a commitment to the concepts of assessment, policy development, and assurance, a vision for the national mission of public health is provided and the various roles in fulfilling the mission are defined.
{"title":"Lessons learned from the first funding period of the CDC Assessment Initiative.","authors":"R. German, G. R. Janes, R. Romaguera","doi":"10.1097/00124784-200107050-00008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00124784-200107050-00008","url":null,"abstract":"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Assessment Initiative enables state and local health departments to improve their capacity to use data for developing policy and ensuring that needed health services are provided. Using reports and comments submitted by staff from the participating states, lessons learned are summarized for the first funding period of the initiative. Although many activities were common among the participating states, the lessons learned varied for them. From a commitment to the concepts of assessment, policy development, and assurance, a vision for the national mission of public health is provided and the various roles in fulfilling the mission are defined.","PeriodicalId":296123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125706951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New York's (NY) Health Information Network (HIN) provided timely access to West Nile Virus (WNV) data during the initial outbreak in the late Summer 1999. In December 1999, NY developed a plan to deal with WNV in 2000 that required an integrated surveillance system for humans, birds, mammals, and mosquitoes. The HIN infrastructure allowed NY to deploy this system statewide in three months. Local health departments throughout NY used the system to report, track, and retrieve surveillance data as WNV spread throughout NY in 2000. The HIN infrastructure includes partnerships, training/support, technical capacity and architecture similar to NEDSS as proposed by the US CDC.
{"title":"West Nile virus: a case study in how NY State Health Information infrastructure facilitates preparation and response to disease outbreaks.","authors":"I. Gotham, M. Eidson, Dennis J. White, Barbara J. Wallace, H. H. Chang, Geraldine S. Johnson, John P. Napoli, Debra L. Sottolano, G. Birkhead, Dale L. Morse, Perry F. Smith","doi":"10.1097/00124784-200107050-00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00124784-200107050-00011","url":null,"abstract":"New York's (NY) Health Information Network (HIN) provided timely access to West Nile Virus (WNV) data during the initial outbreak in the late Summer 1999. In December 1999, NY developed a plan to deal with WNV in 2000 that required an integrated surveillance system for humans, birds, mammals, and mosquitoes. The HIN infrastructure allowed NY to deploy this system statewide in three months. Local health departments throughout NY used the system to report, track, and retrieve surveillance data as WNV spread throughout NY in 2000. The HIN infrastructure includes partnerships, training/support, technical capacity and architecture similar to NEDSS as proposed by the US CDC.","PeriodicalId":296123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114153480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Healthy People 2010 Objectives and the Taskforce on Public Health Workforce Development both have recognized the important roles of state and local agencies in the education and training of their employees. This article describes an initial step in the development of a tool to assess agencies' training readiness using five factors derived from learning organization theory. These factors (resources, policies, learning culture, programs, and leadership) offer a useful framework for further development of a tool to assess training program readiness.
{"title":"Training readiness of public health agencies: a framework for assessment.","authors":"V. Dato, M. Potter, C. Fertman","doi":"10.1097/00124784-200107040-00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00124784-200107040-00014","url":null,"abstract":"The Healthy People 2010 Objectives and the Taskforce on Public Health Workforce Development both have recognized the important roles of state and local agencies in the education and training of their employees. This article describes an initial step in the development of a tool to assess agencies' training readiness using five factors derived from learning organization theory. These factors (resources, policies, learning culture, programs, and leadership) offer a useful framework for further development of a tool to assess training program readiness.","PeriodicalId":296123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115784361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) was the first state to pilot test both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state agency and local Public Health System Performance Standards. The standards were found to be complementary and supportive of the FDOH quality performance improvement system, which had been in place for a decade, and the new Quality Management initiative. The pilot test found uneven performance across the state's county health departments and identified several areas, especially workforce development, that required additional efforts. The FDOH, in collaboration with the Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice at the College of Public Health in the University of South Florida, have collaborated and will continue to collaborate to design and deliver training in critical workforce development areas.
{"title":"National Public Health Performance Standards: workforce development and agency effectiveness in Florida.","authors":"W. Reid, L. Beitsch, R. Brooks, K. Mason, N. Mescia, S. Webb","doi":"10.1097/00124784-200107040-00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00124784-200107040-00011","url":null,"abstract":"The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) was the first state to pilot test both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) state agency and local Public Health System Performance Standards. The standards were found to be complementary and supportive of the FDOH quality performance improvement system, which had been in place for a decade, and the new Quality Management initiative. The pilot test found uneven performance across the state's county health departments and identified several areas, especially workforce development, that required additional efforts. The FDOH, in collaboration with the Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice at the College of Public Health in the University of South Florida, have collaborated and will continue to collaborate to design and deliver training in critical workforce development areas.","PeriodicalId":296123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129087017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Despite more than a decade of dialogue on the critical needs and challenges in public health workforce development, progress remains slow in implementing recommended actions. A life-long learning system for public health remains elusive. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in collaboration with other partners in federal, state, local agencies, associations and academia is preparing a national action agenda to address front-line preparedness. Four areas of convergence have emerged regarding: (1) the use of basic and crosscutting public health competencies to develop practice-focused curricula; (2) a framework for certification and credentialing; (3) the need to establish a strong science base for workforce issues; and (4) the acceleration of the use of technology-supported learning in public health.
{"title":"Partnership for front-line success: a call for a national action agenda on workforce development.","authors":"M. Lichtveld, J. Cioffi, E. Baker, Stephanie B. C. Bailey, K. Gebbie, Joseph Henderson, Deborah L. Jones, R. Kurz, Stephen Margolis, K. Miner, Lee Thielen, H. Tilson","doi":"10.1097/00124784-200107040-00002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00124784-200107040-00002","url":null,"abstract":"Despite more than a decade of dialogue on the critical needs and challenges in public health workforce development, progress remains slow in implementing recommended actions. A life-long learning system for public health remains elusive. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in collaboration with other partners in federal, state, local agencies, associations and academia is preparing a national action agenda to address front-line preparedness. Four areas of convergence have emerged regarding: (1) the use of basic and crosscutting public health competencies to develop practice-focused curricula; (2) a framework for certification and credentialing; (3) the need to establish a strong science base for workforce issues; and (4) the acceleration of the use of technology-supported learning in public health.","PeriodicalId":296123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126328456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joint Council of State and Local Health Officials: workforce development--principles for action.","authors":"C. Brown, C. Roddy","doi":"10.1097/00124784-200107040-00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00124784-200107040-00009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":296123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP","volume":"7 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129678011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article describes an initiative to develop and implement a competency-based credentialing program for public health managers and administrators that is linked with practice performance standards for local public health systems. The Illinois Public Health Administration Certification Board represents an innovative model for credentialing public health workers, placing equal value on competencies secured through education and training and those demonstrated in practice. Competency-based credentialing of public health administrators may have applicability for other segments of the public health workforce.
{"title":"Competency-based credentialing of public health administrators in Illinois.","authors":"B. Turnock","doi":"10.1097/00124784-200107040-00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00124784-200107040-00012","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes an initiative to develop and implement a competency-based credentialing program for public health managers and administrators that is linked with practice performance standards for local public health systems. The Illinois Public Health Administration Certification Board represents an innovative model for credentialing public health workers, placing equal value on competencies secured through education and training and those demonstrated in practice. Competency-based credentialing of public health administrators may have applicability for other segments of the public health workforce.","PeriodicalId":296123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128216191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Professionalizing the public health workforce: the case for certification.","authors":"M. Akhter","doi":"10.1097/00124784-200107040-00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00124784-200107040-00007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":296123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125748658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}