Strengthening the Collaboration between Public Health and Criminal Justice to Prevent Violence

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Youth Violence ◽  
United States Public Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Evaluation Strategies ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Public Health Practitioners ◽  
Public Health Strategies

Over the last two decades in the United States, public health practitioners, policy makers, and researchers have charted new tenitory by increasingly using public health strategies to understand and prevent youth violence, which has been considered a criminal justice problem. The utilization of public health approaches has generated several contributions to the understanding and prevention of violence, including new and expanded knowledge in surveillance, delineation of risk factors, and prop design, including implementation and evaluation strategies.While public health activities generally complement those of criminal justice, confrontations, challenges and turf issues within this cross-disciplinary enterprise remain inevitable. Continued progress is dependent upon expanded efforts and greater collaboration within both disciplines.

Aligning Public Health Training and Practice in Evaluation: Implications and Recommendations for Educators

2021 ◽  
pp. 237337992110336
Author(s):  
Bree L. Hemingway ◽  
Sarah Douville ◽  
Leslie A. Fierro
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Community Practice ◽  
Public Health Training ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Centers For Disease Control ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

Objective. This study aimed to understand the extent to which master of public health (MPH) graduates engage in evaluation on the job, to learn how MPH graduates implement evaluation, and to hear from MPH graduates about how their academic training prepared them for the evaluation work they perform. Methods. Using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Evaluation Framework, this convergent mixed-methods study included an online survey with 89 public health practitioners and follow-up interviews with 17 survey respondents. The study was performed in the United States during summer 2020. Results. In addition to participating in evaluation activities related to all six Centers for Disease Control and Prevention framework steps, MPH graduates engage in evaluation capacity building, evaluating for health equity and social justice, and funding activities. Participants noted a disconnect between academic preparation and community practice, were least confident in focusing the evaluation design, and most often used surveys to collect data. Conclusions. Public health practitioners commonly engage in evaluation activities but do not feel fully prepared to do so given their MPH training. Many opportunities exist to enhance graduate/postgraduate training through connecting public health with the broader professional practice of evaluation.

scholarly journals Students’ Perspectives: How Will COVID-19 Shape the Social Determinants of Health and Our Future as Public Health Practitioners?

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 850-854
Author(s):  
Eliyas K. Asfaw ◽  
Emily S. Guo ◽  
Sarah S. Jang ◽  
Swathi R. Komarivelli ◽  
Katherine A. Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Public Health Professionals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
To Come ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

We are the next generation of public health practitioners. As public health students, we acknowledge that the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic will continue to fundamentally alter the field that we are preparing to enter. We will be the first wave of public health professionals whose education is being shaped by this pandemic. For decades to come, we will be working to address the impacts of this pandemic. In this commentary, we are lending our voice to discuss and highlight the importance of considering the intersections of various determinants of health and COVID-19, including education, food insecurity, housing instability, and economic hardship. We provide a discussion on what is being done across the United States in attempts to reduce the growing health inequities. As the next generation of public health leaders, we believe that only by investing in these issues can we begin to address the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Media, Health & Health Promotion in Nepal

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Edwin Van Teijlingen ◽  
Padam Simkhada ◽  
Ann Luce ◽  
Vanora Hundley
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Public Health Agencies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Media ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

 It has been recognised that the media can affect our perceptions, views and tastes on a wide-range of issues. The mass media in it various forms (newspapers, television & radio, the internet and Twitter) and formats, have a far reaching influence through, for example news programmes, documentaries, advertising and entertainment. At the same time the media can also be seen as a channel for agencies responsible for public health to get their messages across to the population. Public health agencies are always searching for ways to disseminate health information and messages to their intended audiences. These are, of course, global concerns, but as both public health and the media are part of the society in which they operate there will be locally specific issues and considerations. To date most of the research into the media and public health has been conducted in high-income countries, and there has been very little research in Nepal on the interaction of public health and health promotion with the media.This overview paper highlights some of the key issues that public health practitioners, media editors and journalists, health policy-makers and researchers could consider.Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences Vol. 2 2016 p.70-75

scholarly journals Advocating migrant and minority health in Bulgaria through an innovative education subject

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Kamburova
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health System ◽  
Minority Health ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Roma Population ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

Abstract Introduction Migrants and ethnic minorities often face serious inequities concerning their access to good quality health services. The Statement by the European Public Health Association on migration, ethnicity and health addresses the need of supporting public health policy makers by providing education courses. The objectives of the teaching course “Migrant and minority health”, established in Medical University-Pleven in Bulgaria as optional additional subject, is to extend the specific knowledge of students (bachelors and masters of public health) and to develop competencies and skills of future public health practitioners and policy makers. Results The unique for Bulgaria course consists of 15 academic hours of the curriculum and ends with an electronically based test. Teaching methods include lectures, seminars and individual practical assignment and stresses on practice rather than theory. The training advocates migrant and minority health by presenting: the most important migrant’s social and health problems; impact of migrants’ health status on public health; the organization of healthcare in the recipient countries of migrants. The lecture course provides information for the main challenges facing healthcare professionals and the health system regarding the health of the migrants and main minorities groups, in particular the Roma as a predominantly ethnic minority in Bulgaria and Europe. The result of exam until now is good in 42.8% of students, very good in 14.2% and excellent in 42.8%. The curse enable public health professionals to acquire knowledge regarding to the international situation, critical assessment skills and the ability to implement appropriate strategies to address specific health problems. Conclusions The training meets the needs of in-depth knowledge of public health specialists in relation to the medical and social problems of migrants and minorities in Bulgaria. The positive experience gives ground to include it as part of basic curricula. Key messages The subject “Migrant and minority health” enhances student’s competencies as public health practitioners. Knowledge and skills are relevant to the EUPHA Statement on migration, ethnicity and health. By the subject “Migrant and minority health” public health practitioners may work to establish friendly health system with good quality of health services for migrants and Roma population in Bulgaria.

scholarly journals Daring to dream: reactions to tobacco endgame ideas among policy-makers, media and public health practitioners

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Edwards ◽  
Marie Russell ◽  
George Thomson ◽  
Nick Wilson ◽  
Heather Gifford
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Public Health Practitioners ◽  
Tobacco Endgame

Limited Liability and the Public's Health

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lainie Rutkow ◽  
Stephen P. Teret
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Limited Liability ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

Corporations, through their products and behaviors, exert a strong effect on the wellbeing of populations. Public health practitioners and academics have long recognized the harms associated with some corporations’ products. For example, firearms are associated with approximately 30,000 deaths in the United States each year1 and over 200,000 deaths globally. Motor vehicles are associated with about 40,000 deaths in the United States each year and over 1.2 million deaths globally. Tobacco products kill about 438,000 people each year in the United States5 and about 4.9 million people worldwide. In addition to producing unsafe or harmful products, some corporations behave in ways that negatively impact the public’s health, such as marketing alcohol to youth and other vulnerable populations. Given these observations, one can conclude that it is possible to quantify the public health impact of individual industries, such as firearms, motor vehicles, tobacco, and alcohol. Health professionals can then target these individual industries to prevent or lessen the harms they cause.

scholarly journals Transforming Public Health Law: The Turning Point Model State Public Health Act

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
James G. Hodge ◽  
Lawrence O. Gostin ◽  
Kristine Gebbie ◽  
Deborah L. Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Public Health Agencies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Legal Foundations ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Public Health Practitioners ◽  
Health Laws

Protecting the public's health has recently regained prominence in political and public discussions. Threats of bioterrorism following September 11, 2001 and the deliberate dissemination of anthrax later that fall, the reemergence of novel or resurgent infectious diseases, (such as the West Nile Virus, SARS, influenza, avian flu) and rapid increases in diseases associated with sedentary lifestyles, poor diets, and smoking (e.g., heart disease, diabetes, cancer) have all raised the profile of public health. The U.S. government has responded with increased funding, reorganization, and new policies for the population's health, safety, and security. Politicians and the public more clearly understand the importance of law in improving the public's health. Recognizing that many public health laws have not been meaningfully reformed in decades, law- and policy-makers and public health practitioners have focused on the legal foundations for public health. Laws provide the mission, functions, and powers of public health agencies, set standards for their (and their partners’) actions, and safeguard individual rights.

How the Law Affects Gun Policy in the United States: Law as Intervention or Obstacle to Prevention

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 692-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon S. Vernick ◽  
Julie Samia Mair
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Problem ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Policy ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
The Law ◽  
Public Health Practitioners ◽  
Legal Force

In our experience, public health practitioners (rather than scholars) seeking to address a health problem often have just two very basic questions about the law: (1) how can I use the law to create new interventions, or improve existing ones, to protect the public’s health; and (2) will the law prevent me from successfully implementing certain interventions? In this way, the law is seen as either an opportunity for intervention to affect a public health problem, or an obstacle to enacting or implementing a desired intervention.In addition, because some public health practitioners may not fully understand the intricacies of a given legal area, some possible obstacles to intervention may be either real or perceived. A real legal obstacle is not necessarily an insurmountable one, but it does have genuine legal force. A perceived obstacle has little, if any, true legal application to a given kind of intervention.

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