scholarly journals Contact Tracing: A Clarion Call for National Training Standards

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-440
Author(s):  
Bettina M. Beech ◽  
LeChauncy Woodard
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Public Health Strategy ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Training Standards ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
National Training

As of late May 2020, more than 1.5 million people had tested positive for coronavirus infection in the United States; however, only 3% of Americans had been tested. However, testing is only one of the key elements in the effort to control communicable diseases. There is a need to investigate others who may have been exposed to the virus; this can be accomplished through a foundational public health strategy – contact tracing. Most public health students and professionals have been introduced to the concept of contact tracing; however, competency in this area is undetermined. The purpose of this perspective is to call for national standards for contact tracing training programs that lead to a widely recognized certification process. Ethn Dis. 2020;30(3):437-440; doi:10.18865/ed.30.3.437

scholarly journals Contact Tracing for COVID-19: An Opportunity to Reduce Health Disparities and End the Human Immunodeficiency Virus/AIDS Epidemic in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (16) ◽  
pp. 2259-2261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bohdan Nosyk ◽  
Wendy S Armstrong ◽  
Carlos del Rio
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Human Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
The United States ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Public Health Strategy ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Critical Components

Abstract Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) testing and contact tracing have been proposed as critical components of a safe and effective coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health strategy. We argue that COVID-19 contact tracing may provide a unique opportunity to also conduct widespread HIV testing, among other health-promotion activities.

scholarly journals Addressing Suicide in the Veteran Population: Engaging a Public Health Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Carroll ◽  
Lisa K. Kearney ◽  
Matthew A. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Department Of Veterans Affairs ◽  
Public Health Strategy ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Public Health ◽  
The Military

Suicide is a national public health issue in America, and it disproportionately affects those who are serving or who have served in the United States military. The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has made suicide prevention its number one clinical priority. VA is committed to prevent suicide among the entire population of those who have served our country in the military, regardless of whether they make use of any VA services or benefits. Suicide can be prevented through the application of a public health strategy embracing partners at all levels. Following a national strategy, VA has embarked on an effort involving the application of a public health strategy combining both clinically-based and community-focused interventions. This paper describes several examples of these efforts and steps forward.

scholarly journals Adoption of local public health plan for better health and quality of life in Belgrade

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
G Tamburkovski ◽  
G Belamarić ◽  
D Matijević ◽  
S Mladenović Janković
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Health Plan ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
City Council ◽  
Public Health Strategy ◽  
Public Health Planning ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Public Health Plan ◽  
The City

Abstract Issue Development of public health plan for the City of Belgrade, facilitate multisectoral participation and encourage local government to incorporate public health planning into integrated planning framework, including funding. Description of the Problem According to Public Health Low, adopted in Serbia in 2016 and Public health strategy (2018), Council for Health, as a professional body of the City government, was obliged to prepare draft of the Plan. Members of the City Council are representatives from different sectors: health care, public health, private sector, child care, education and civil society. Based on data and information from relevant institutions and organizations, situation analysis and health profile of the City have been prepared during 2018. Results Public health plan for the City of Belgrade has been drafted for a time period from 2020 to 2026, aligned and within time frame of the National public health strategy. Plan included: mission, vision, objectives, activities, responsible institutions, funding sources and indicators for monitoring. Focus was on health promotion and empowerment of citizens to adopt healthy lifestyle as well on investment in environmental sustainability, poverty and inequalities reduction and minimizing risks to human health and well-being. On December 2019, Belgrade City Assembly adopted this document, with full responsibility for implementation and budgeting specific programs and projects from 2020. Lessons Multisectoral working group, with clear defined scope of work, supported by regulations, encouraged and managed by experts in the field, highly motivated to be creator of changes is prerequisite for successful and productive public health planning process. Key messages Public health planning enabled communication and cooperation among experts and decision makers and represented a whole-of-local government approach to public health. Document is used as a resource and model for the other cities and municipalities.

scholarly journals Staple crops biofortified with increased vitamins and minerals: considerations for a public health strategy

2016 ◽  
Vol 1390 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Nieves Garcia-Casal ◽  
Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas ◽  
Boitshepo Giyose ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Strategy ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Staple Crops

Psychoanalytic Training Today

1992 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1185-1210 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Morris
Keyword(s):  
Training Programs ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Psychoanalytic Training ◽  
Training Standards ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
Psychoanalytic Thought ◽  
American Psychoanalytic Association

Psychoanalytic education in the United States faces multiple challenges as we enter the last decade of this century. (1) Changing interest and career path patterns for psychiatrists have resulted in fewer medical applications for psychoanalytic training. (2) Increased opportunities for full psychoanalytic training of nonphysicians have resulted in increased applications from highly skilled clinicians who often have more clinical experience than their medical colleagues. (3) Increased enrollment of women candidates has required rethinking of progression requirements, in light of their combined careers as professionals and mothers. (4) Independent institutes not accredited by the American Psychoanalytic Association compete for applicants while maintaining training standards that require less time and immersion in psychoanalytic theory and practice. (5) Economic factors increasingly influence the desirability of prolonged psychoanalytic training and the availability of suitable analysands for control analyses. (6) Evolution of theory and practice and the emergence of “new schools” of psychoanalytic thought have rendered the previous psychoanalytic landscape dominated by drive theory and ego psychology more multifaceted and less uniform. The American Psychoanalytic Association and its institutes attempt to understand these changing patterns and take them into consideration in the design and implementation of psychoanalytic training programs. Only one aspect of this complex situation will be described in this work, the current state of psychoanalytic training in the 28 institutes accredited by the American Psychoanalytic Association. Although the data available at this time leave unanswered many important questions about the philosophies that organize the content and emphases of the curriculum in different institutes, much has been learned about the overall structure of psychoanalytic training programs.

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