[EQ] Health Protectionomics: A New Science of People, Policy, and Politics

 Health Protectionomics: A New Science of People, Policy, and Politics

George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
September 19, 2007

Ruth Katz, Dean George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
Julie Gerberding, Director Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 Website - Video and Transcript available at:: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/gwu/19sep07
 

George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services Public Health Grand Rounds series examined global health. Pfizer is sponsoring the nine-part series as part of its Milestones in Public Health initiative.

Transcript: PDF [44p.] at:
 http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/uploaded_files/091907_gw_%20protectionomics_transcript.pdf 

".......We really are talking now about our role in health protection as one of two main frames of our work and we still mean prevention. We are still very much committed to the prevention of disease, injury an disability but we are also increasingly focusing on health promotion in a broader context of the things that promote and engender good health as well as preparedness, given the times and the requirement that we have for preparing against merging threats so these three P’s, promotion, prevention and preparedness, are really a broader frame of our work at CDC.

.. The investments that congress and policy makers are making in us but they don’t tell the whole story because whether we have ever made it explicit or it is just implicitly part of our hearts and our genes if you will, there is another lane that we care as much about and that really is the whole concept of health equity.

You didn’t see it in our mission statement in the past but we are working our way to making this a very visible and prominent part of what we intend to accomplish at CDC and we haven’t even quite settled on our organizational definition of health equity. Obviously it is the absence of disparity, however you define it, but equity brings into play a much broader dimension, the social context and the sense of justice and fairness that we all want to achieve for people who are trying to develop their optimal health status. So health protection, health equity really are the framework for CDC’s work ...."

Public Health Grand Rounds : 2007-2008

Website:http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/events/phGrandRounds.cfm

The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services launched a new lecture series
Public Health Grand Rounds will be held monthly during the 2007 – 2008 academic year, and is open to the Medical Center, the University, and all those within the public health and healthcare community. Pfizer, Inc. is sponsoring the nine-part series.

2007-2008 Public Health Grand Rounds Schedule
(Please click the link for each event for more information on the speaker.)

Date, Time, Location	Speaker and Topic Information	Presentation Material	Webcast / Podcast
Wednesday, September 19th Ross Hall Room 101/105 Noon - 1:30 pm	Dr. Julie Gerberding, CDC Director "Health Protectionomics: A New Science of People, Policy and Politics"		Webcast Podcast Transcript
Tuesday, October 16th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	Dr. Arthur Kellermann, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Director of the Center for Injury Control at Emory University School of Medicine TBA
Tuesday, November 20th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	TBA TBA
Tuesday, December 11th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	Dr. John Ruffin, Director, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Health Disparities
Tuesday, January 22nd GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	Russell Pate, MD, University of South Carolina "Physical Activity and Public Policy"
Tuesday, February 19th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	TBA TBA
Tuesday, March 4th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	Dr. Kevin DeCook HIV/AIDS
Tuesday, March 25th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm	TBA TBA
Tuesday, April 8th GW Hospital Auditorium Noon - 1:30 pm

 

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[EQ] Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada

 

Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada: Release 1.0

Public Health Agency of Canada. Ottawa, September 2007
 

Available online  as PDF file [28p.]  at:  http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ccph-cesp/pdfs/cc-manual-eng090407.pdf 
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/core_competencies
www.aspc-phac.gc.ca/competences_essentielles

Core competencies are the essential knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the practice of public health.  They transcend the boundaries of specific disciplines and are independent of program and topic.  They provide the building blocks for effective public health practice, and the use of an overall public health approach.  

The core competencies primarily relate to the practice of individuals, including frontline providers, consultants/specialists and managers/supervisors. They can also serve as a tool for assessing and creating the best mix of competencies for a public health team or organization.

The core competency statements are not designed to stand alone, but rather to form a set of knowledge, skills and attitudes practiced within the larger context of the values of public health.

Important values in public health include a commitment to equity, social justice and sustainable development, recognition of the importance of the health of the community as well as the individual, and respect for diversity, self-determination, empowerment and community participation. These values are rooted in an understanding of the broad determinants of health and the historical principles, values and strategies of public health and health promotion.

The 36 core competencies are organized under seven categories:

 1.0 Public Health Sciences

 2.0 Assessment and Analysis

 3.0 Policy & Program Planning, Implementation & Evaluation

 4.0 Partnerships, Collaboration and Advocacy

 5.0 Diversity and Inclusiveness

 6.0 Communication

 7.0 Leadership

Each competency statement is illustrated with at least one practice example for a front line provider, a consultant/specialist or a manager/supervisor. Practitioners are encouraged to develop additional examples, based on their own experience and understanding of the competency statements.

A companion Glossary of Terms Relevant to the Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada provides clarity and standardization to the key terms used in the statements. These terms provide the basis for the development of common language and understanding.

The Core Competencies for Public Health in Canada: Release 1.0 contains the full set of competency statements, the practice examples and the glossary.

A reference card has been developed that contains all 36 core competencies in one handy tool to help apply the Core Competencies for Public Health in your practice and organization

 

 

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[EQ] Unequal Lives: Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities

Unequal Lives: Health and Socioeconomic Inequalities

Hilary Graham, professor of Health Sciences at the University of York, UK. 

Open University Press,  September 2007

Publisher website: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335213693.html 

"....Unequal Lives provides an evidence-based introduction to social and health inequalities. It brings together research from social epidemiology, sociology and social policy to guide the reader to an understanding of why people's lives and people's health remain so unequal, even in rich societies where there is more than enough for all...." Margaret Whitehead, WH Duncan Professor of Public Health, University of Liverpool, UK

• What is meant by health inequalities and socioeconomic inequalities?
• What evidence is there to support the link between socioeconomic status and health?
• Why do these links persist over time, between and within societies, and across people's lives?
• What part do policies play in the persistence of social and health inequalities?

Chapter 1 Health inequalities and inequities  available online PDF [18p.] at:
http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/openup/chapters/9780335213696.pdf

".....Health inequalities can be cast as individual differences in health, differences in health between population groups and differences between groups linked to broader social inequalities. These definitions are distinguished by their focus on individuals (individual differences in health), the social groups to which individuals belong (health differences between population groups) and the unequal structures of which groups are part (health differences between unequal groups). The three concepts are used to describe within country inequalities: to capture health inequalities between individuals and groups living in the same country. They can also be applied to inequalities in health at the global level...."

 
 Content:
 Introduction
 
 Part 1: Key Terms
 Health inequalities and inequities
 Measures of health and health inequalities
 Socioeconomic inequalities
 Measures of socioeconomic position
 
 Part 2: Patterns of Unequal Health
 Health inequalities: global, national and historical
 Health inequalities across changes in disease
 
 Part 3: Understandings
 Social determinants of health and health inequalities
 Socioeconomic inequalities across generations: occupation and education
 Socioeconomic inequalities across generations: partnership and parenthood
 Health across unequal lives
 Unequal lives: policy matters

 

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Prof Hilary Graham, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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ISBN13: 9780335213696,
ISBN10: 0335213693

 

 

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