scholarly journals Policy game development in a local public health setting - process, lessons and reflections

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
H Spitters ◽  
LAM van de Goor ◽  
C Glümer ◽  
CJ Lau ◽  
P Sandu
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Game Development ◽  
Local Public Health ◽  
Setting Process ◽  
Policy Game ◽  
Public Health Setting

scholarly journals On Linkages; Using GIS for Administrative Decision-Making in a Local Public Health Setting

2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devon M. Taylor ◽  
Valerie A. Yeager ◽  
Claude Ouimet ◽  
Nir Menachemi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Public Health ◽  
Public Health Setting

scholarly journals Communicating with the Workforce during Emergencies: Developing an Employee Text Messaging Program in a Local Public Health Setting

2014 ◽  
Vol 129 (6_suppl4) ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary N. Karasz ◽  
Sharon Bogan ◽  
Lindsay Bosslet
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Text Messaging ◽  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Short Message ◽  
Ice Storm ◽  
Work Time ◽  
Local Public Health ◽  
Message Service ◽  
Public Health Setting

Short message service (SMS) text messaging can be useful for communicating information to public health employees and improving workforce situational awareness during emergencies. We sought to understand how the 1,500 employees at Public Health – Seattle & King County, Washington, perceived barriers to and benefits of participation in a voluntary, employer-based SMS program. Based on employee feedback, we developed the system, marketed it, and invited employees to opt in. The system was tested during an ice storm in January 2012. Employee concerns about opting into an SMS program included possible work encroachment during non-work time and receiving excessive irrelevant messages. Employees who received messages during the weather event reported high levels of satisfaction and perceived utility from the program. We conclude that text messaging is a feasible form of communication with employees during emergencies. Care should be taken to design and deploy a program that maximizes employee satisfaction.

scholarly journals The Evolution of the Healthy Brain Initiative

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 720-720
Author(s):  
Lisa McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Dementia Caregivers ◽  
Local Public Health ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Indian Country ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Map Series

Abstract The Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI) seeks to advance public health awareness of and action on ADRD as a public health issue. The HBI Road Map Series, State and Local Public Health Partnerships to Address Dementia: The 2018–2023 Road Map (S&L RM) and Road Map for Indian Country (RMIC), provide the public health with concrete steps to respond to the growing burden of ADRD in communities, consistent with the aim of the Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act (P.L. 115-406). This series of RMs for state, local, and tribal public health provide flexible menus of actions to address cognitive health, including ADRD, and support for dementia caregivers with population-based approaches. This session will describe how the initiative evolved over the past 15 years including policy and implementation success stories.

scholarly journals Relationship (or its lack) between population and a water and sanitation service: a study of users' perception in Vitória (ES) Brazil

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 764-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Ramos da Silva ◽  
Léo Heller ◽  
Jorge de Campos Valadares ◽  
Sandy Cairncross
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Health Authority ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Public Health Authority ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Local Public Health ◽  
Water Handling ◽  
Inadequate Knowledge

The objective of this paper is to identify and analyse the perception of groups of dwellers of Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil, regarding their relationship with the water and sanitation service and aspects of water handling. Participants living in four distinct urban districts of the capital city were interviewed in their own houses and the Discourse of the Collective Subject approach was employed to order the data so obtained. The testimonies revealed the health risk to which individuals were exposed by virtue of: (i) inadequate knowledge concerning the water supply offered, (ii) lack of stimulus to exert their citizens' rights and obligations in relation to the water provided for their consumption and (iii) poor channels of communication between the community, the water and sanitation service and the local public health authority. The study concluded that there is a need to rethink the forms of information provided to the population that are presently adopted by these institutions.

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