scholarly journals Empowering Public Health Pharmacy Practice—Moving from Collaborative Practice Agreements to Provider Status in the U.S.

Pharmacy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Alina Cernasev ◽  
Meghana Aruru ◽  
Suzanne Clark ◽  
Komal Patel ◽  
Natalie DiPietro Mager ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Pharmacy Practice ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Collaborative Practice ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Interdisciplinary Healthcare

This article describes the history and evolution of pharmacist-physician collaborative practice agreements (CPAs) in the United States with future directions to support pharmacists’ provider status as the profession continues to evolve from product-oriented to patient-centered care and population health. The pharmacy profession has a long history of dispensing and compounding, with the addition of clinical roles in the late 20th century. These clinical roles have continued to expand into diverse arenas such as communicable and non-communicable diseases, antimicrobial stewardship, emergency preparedness and response, public health education and health promotion, and critical and emergency care. Pharmacists continue to serve as integral members of interprofessional and interdisciplinary healthcare teams. In this context, CPAs allow pharmacists to expand their roles in patient care and may be considered as a step towards securing provider status. Moving beyond CPAs to a provider status would enable pharmacists to be reimbursed for cognitive services and promote integrated public health delivery models.

Public Health Nutrition

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauri Wright ◽  
Melody Chavez
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Pharmacy Education ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Nutritional Needs ◽  
Care Health

The importance of nutrition and the prevention of illness and disease in public health has long been recognized and encouraged in the United States. These issues are now being recognized as key opportunities for pharmacists to engage in improving individual and population health as the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education Standards 2016 report emphasizes the importance of patient-centered care, health and wellness, and population-based care. This chapter starts with an overview of nutritional needs throughout the lifespan. It then discusses specific strategies and programs pharmacists can refer to in order to support healthy lifestyles and public health prevention strategies focused on nutrition.

scholarly journals Toward a Culture of Health in the United States: Introducing the HPP Arts in Public Health Supplement

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 5S-7S
Author(s):  
Jill Sonke ◽  
Lourdes Rodríguez ◽  
Melissa A. Valerio-Shewmaker
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
The University ◽  
Critical Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion Practice

The arts—and the arts and culture sector—offer fertile ground for achieving a culture of health in the United States. The arts and artists are agents of change and can help enable this vision and also address the most critical public health issues we are contending with, including COVID-19 and racism. The arts provide means for engaging dialogue, influencing behaviors, disrupting paradigms and fueling social movements. The arts uncover and illuminate issues. They engage us emotionally and intellectually. They challenge assumptions. They call out injustice. They drive collective action. They heal—making arts + public health collaboration very relevant in this historic moment. In this special Health Promotion Practice supplement on arts in public health, you’ll find powerful examples and evidence of how cross-sector collaboration between public health and the arts can advance health promotion goals and impacts, and make health promotion programs not only more accessible to diverse populations but also more equitable and effective in addressing the upstream systems, policies, and structures that create health disparities. You will see how the arts can empower health communication, support health literacy, provide direct and measurable health benefits to individuals and communities, and support coping and resilience in response to COVID-19. This issue itself exemplifies cross-sector collaboration, as it was created through partnership between Health Promotion Practice, the Society for Public Health Education, ArtPlace America, and the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine, and presents voices from across the public health, arts, and community development sectors.

Expanding CERC Beyond Public Health: Sharing Best Practices With Healthcare Managers via Virtual Learning

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 83S-87S ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne M. Hewitt ◽  
Susan S. Spencer ◽  
Rameshsharma Ramloll ◽  
Heidi Trotta
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
The Impact

Developed by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2002, the Crisis Emergency and Risk Communication (CERC) training module is a nationally and internationally recognized communication model. With the looming threat of a pandemic and the potential for a protracted ongoing siege, a valuable opportunity exists to introduce crisis and emergency preparedness communication best practices to a new population—health care managers and administrators. The CERC toolkit and resources, provide an easy, turn-key solution and a validated template for educators who are not directly involved in public health education but desire to share this content. In this example, graduate students enrolled in an Master of Health Administration program, used a Play2Train scenario, located in the virtual learning environment of SecondLife (2007), to incorporate concepts from the CERC model. By applying the CERC best practices in a real-time virtual learning scenario, students learned collaboration and the leadership competencies necessary to help implement Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Organizations emergency communication protocols and community collaboration requirements. By expanding the impact of the CERC model and developing unified risk communication responses and information sharing, all health professionals can enhance the effectiveness of their emergency preparedness plans so that the public can be better served.

A Computational Perspective of Knowledge Empowerment for Healthcare Decision Making

2017 ◽  
pp. 134-155
Author(s):  
Timothy Jay Carney
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Healthcare Decision ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Healthcare Decision Making ◽  
Computational Perspective ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
The Relationship

People in a variety of settings can be heard uttering the phrase that “knowledge is power” or the relatively equivalent concept that “information is power.” However, the research literature in particular lacks a simple and standardized way to examine the relationship between knowledge and power. There is a lack operational quantitative definitions of this relationship to adequately support the building of complex computational models used in addressing some longstanding public health and healthcare delivery issues like differential access to care, inequitable care and treatment, institutional bias, disparities in health outcomes, and eliminating barriers to patient-centered care. The objective of this discussion is to present a relational algorithm that can be used in both conceptual discussions on knowledge empowerment modeling, as well as in the building of computational models that want to explore the variable of knowledge empowerment within computer simulation experiments.

Monetary and Nonmonetary Costs and Benefits of a Public Health Master’s Degree in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (7) ◽  
pp. 978-985
Author(s):  
Angela J. Beck ◽  
Jonathon P. Leider ◽  
Heather Krasna ◽  
Beth A. Resnick
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Master's Degree ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Net Benefit ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
Master’S Degree

As postsecondary tuition and debt levels continue to rise, the value proposition of higher education has been increasingly called into question by the popular media and the general public. Recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics now show early career earnings and debt, by program, for thousands of institutions across the United States. This comes at an inflection point for public health education—master’s degrees have seen 20 years of growth, but forecasts now call for, at best, stagnation. Forces inside and outside the field of public health are shifting supply and demand for public health master’s degrees. We discuss these forces and identify potential monetary and nonmonetary costs and benefits of these degrees. Overall, we found a net benefit in career outcomes associated with a public health master’s degree, although it is clear that some other master’s degrees likely offer greater lifetime earning potentials or lower lifetime debt associated with degree attainment. We outline the issues academic public health must engage in to successfully attract and train the next generation of public health graduates.

Faculty Perspectives on Teaching Public Health at Community Colleges: An Exploratory Snapshot

2020 ◽  
pp. 237337992095656
Author(s):  
Katherine J. Johnson ◽  
Becky Corran ◽  
Andrea Salis ◽  
Anuradha Srivastava ◽  
Lillian U. Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Teaching Faculty

The role of community colleges in training public health professionals is of growing importance to the continuum of public health education. Some 5 years have passed since the Framing the Future initiative outlined curricular models at community colleges, and colleges deploying these models are serving as learning sites for public health education at community colleges. While past research has focused on capturing insights from community college executives and program administrators, this study captures perspectives from teaching faculty. Drawing on a national sample of teaching faculty at community colleges and universities accepting transfer students throughout the United States, an online survey of teaching faculty affiliated with public health programs was coupled with follow-up interviews. This study characterizes the nature and scope of public health programming in community colleges and transfer settings, and highlights associated challenges and opportunities as public health becomes further integrated into health professions pathways in 2-year settings and beyond.

scholarly journals Developing a Community-Based Research Project Proposal to Build Public Health Educator Capacity: A Graduate Student Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 801-804
Author(s):  
Alexander Joseph Baukus
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Student Perspective ◽  
Project Proposal ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Person Perspective

This article is the author’s first-person perspective of completing an Applied Practice Experience (APE) at an accredited public health program. Graduate-level public health students in the United States are mandated by the Council on Education for Public Health to complete this supervised field experience to apply knowledge and concepts to real-world public health practice. For his APE, the author worked with a faculty advisor and two community groups to facilitate and submit a community-based participatory research grant proposal. This article discusses the author’s experiences before, during, and after the APE. The author outlines challenges and success of working on this applied project. The article concludes with implications for public health education specialists regarding experiential learning and applied practice experiences for graduate students.

Building a National Model of Public Mental Health Preparedness and Community Resilience: Validation of a Dual-Intervention, Systems-Based Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 511-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Lee McCabe ◽  
Natalie L. Semon ◽  
Carol B. Thompson ◽  
Jeffrey M. Lating ◽  
George S. Everly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Health Departments ◽  
Preparedness Planning

AbstractObjectiveWorking within a series of partnerships among an academic health center, local health departments (LHDs), and faith-based organizations (FBOs), we validated companion interventions to address community mental health planning and response challenges in public health emergency preparedness.MethodsWe implemented the project within the framework of an enhanced logic model and employed a multi-cohort, pre-test/post-test design to assess the outcomes of 1-day workshops in psychological first aid (PFA) and guided preparedness planning (GPP). The workshops were delivered to urban and rural communities in eastern and midwestern regions of the United States. Intervention effectiveness was based on changes in relevant knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) and on several behavioral indexes.ResultsSignificant improvements were observed in self-reported and objectively measured KSAs across all cohorts. Additionally, GPP teams proved capable of producing quality drafts of basic community disaster plans in 1 day, and PFA trainees confirmed upon follow-up that their training proved useful in real-world trauma contexts. We documented examples of policy and practice changes at the levels of local and state health departments.ConclusionsGiven appropriate guidance, LHDs and FBOs can implement an effective and potentially scalable model for promoting disaster mental health preparedness and community resilience, with implications for positive translational impact.(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2014;8:511-526)

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