Webinar on Planning & Public Health

Posted on April 20, 2011 by IPHi

On Behalf of a collaborative effort among Virginia Public Health Association, Maryland Association of County Health Officers, The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the University of Virginia, the Virginia Commonwealth Public Health Training Center, and the Institute for Public Health Innovation (IPHi), we cordially invite your participation in the upcoming webinar, Planning and Public Health: An Inflection Point for Integrated Practice. Take notice that this is a live webinar, you can participate in person at the Virginia Public Health Association in Richmond; watch live from your home or office; or watch a recorded version at your convenience.

Leveraging the recently released County Health Rankings, the panel of National speakers will demonstrate the need to be intentional in the way we design our communities if we are to improve the health and well-being of all Americans. The County Health Rankings show us that where we live matters to our health. The health of a community depends on many different factors – ranging from individual health behaviors, education and jobs, to quality of health care, to the environment.

Moderator:

Dr. Madeleine A. Shea, Director, Office of Population Health Improvement, Maryland Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene

Panelists:

Dr. Susan Polan, Associate Executive Director, American Public Health Association

Paul Alsenas, Director, Cuyahoga County Planning Commission

Dr. Ed Schneider, President National Association Local Boards of Health

CEUs will be available

The University of Virginia School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.The University of Virginia School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The University of VirginiaSchool of Medicine awards .01 CEUs per contact hour to each non-physician participant who successfully completes this educationalactivity. The CEU ( Continuing Education Unit) is a nationally recognized unit of measure for continuing education and trainingactivities that meet specific educational planning requirements. The University of Virginia School of Medicine maintains a permanentrecord of participants who have been awarded CEUs.

About IPHi

IPHi is a partner and bridge builder working towards the improvement of community health throughout the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.  IPHi provides leadership at the intersections of health by working across disciplines and sectors to develop, support, implement and evaluate creative strategies to advance the public’s health. IPHi is a Public Health Institute and a member of the National Network of Public Health Institutes.

 

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Innovative Happenings Around the Region

Posted on March 22, 2011 by IPHi

Leveraging the County Health Rankings to Improve the Public’s Health
On March 30, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Public Health Institute will release the 2011 County Health Rankings. The rankings take into account both health outcomes, e.g., mortality and morbidity, and health factors, e.g., health behaviors, clinical care, social and economic, and physical environment. In 2011, with funds provided by RWJF, IPHi is working with public health partners in the DC/MD/VA region to host a Webinar entitled, Planning and Public Health: Creating Intersections for Sustainable and Healthy Communities. Providing leadership at the intersections of health, IPHi will bring together leadership from the planning and public health fields to increase the porosity of our respective discipline silos to move toward a health in all policies approach to prevention.  Key partners include Maryland and Virginia State Departments of Health, Maryland Association of County Health Officials, the Virginia Public Health Association, state and county departments of planning; American Planning Association, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Registration and Webinar information coming soon! Continue reading →

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Health is the Best Investment for the Future

Posted on March 22, 2011 by IPHi

A number of national organizations are working to develop effective materials that we can use to educate policymakers about the value of prevention and the importance of the Prevention Trust Fund. IPHi staff collects and reviews these resources to distill key messages that may be helpful in our collective efforts in the DC-MD-VA region. Like many organizations, we are collaborating with TFAH to share information and resources that will benefit population health needs. We are especially grateful for TFAH’s leadership, timely information updates, and diligence in helping to educate policy makers about the importance of protecting population health. Many of you already receive TFAH’s Wellness and Prevention Health Reform Digest. This is a powerful resource replete with timely information about advocacy and funding opportunities. If you do not already receive TFAH notices, you may register at www.tfah.org, or, as a courtesy to you as a partner in health, send us a note and we’ll work with TFAH staff to ensure you’re registered (email: iphi@commonhealthaction.org). Continue reading →

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Reducing Chronic Disease is in Reach

Posted on March 22, 2011 by IPHi

Throughout the U.S., chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes, and stroke currently affect tens of millions Americans. At the current rate, the current generation will be the first to have shorter life expectancies than their parents. Treatment of these diseases is exorbitantly costly. America currently spends 75% of all health care money on the treatment of chronic diseases, while we only spend 4% on preventing them. Obesity alone is estimated to cost us $147 billion each year. The increasing rates of chronic diseases also affect the economic competitiveness of our country. Workers with one or more chronic conditions have 2 to 4 times as many lost work days compared with workers with no conditions.

There is of course good news. Continue reading →

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An Unhealthy Public Policy Battleground

Posted on March 22, 2011 by IPHi

As everyone is aware, we are facing a very real fiscal crisis.  Congress is still unable to reach an agreement on the FY11 budget that the President proposed over one year ago.  HR1 is the bill passed by the House that cuts $100 billion from the proposed budget.  It was voted down in the Senate, but in a surprising turn of events it received two more votes than the democratic alternative that cut $51 billion from the proposed budget.  This means that any compromise could mean cuts somewhere between $51-100 billion; out of the $476 billion non-defense discretionary budget, these are potentially devastating cuts.  As of Thursday March 17, the Senate passed the most recent continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open until April 8th.  Continue reading →

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Perspectives

Posted on March 22, 2011 by IPHi

Vincent Lafronza, EdD, President & CEO

Greetings from CommonHealth ACTION’s Institute for Public Health Innovation (IPHi)! We are pleased to share with you this first edition of IPHi’s Bridge-Builder to serve as a vehicle for regional communication and a catalyst for increasing the porosity of our individual sector silos. Towards this end, we encourage its broad dissemination and we invite your participation, news, and feedback as we strengthen our regional capacity to collaborate on improving the health and well-being of all communities. Continue reading →

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