Developing Approaches for Evaluating Smoke-Free Policies

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (6_suppl_2) ◽  
pp. 166S-172S ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Schillo ◽  
Stephen Babb ◽  
Harlan R. Juster
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Evaluation Approaches

This article describes how several tobacco control organizations identified and responded to an emerging need for technical assistance on how to evaluate smoke-free policies. The authors outline the purposes of evaluating smoke-free policies and present examples of evaluation approaches and tools. Examples are provided of how evaluation has been used to advance the adoption, implementation, and defense of smoke-free policies. Opportunities for further research are identified. Finally, the authors review lessons learned and discuss their implications for evaluating policy initiatives addressing other public health issues.

Learning Through Practice: The Design and Implementation of an Advanced Integrative Practicum for DrPH Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 237337992093189
Author(s):  
Bree L. Hemingway ◽  
Jamie Q. Felicitas-Perkins ◽  
C. Anderson Johnson ◽  
Michael Osur ◽  
Darleen V. Peterson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Health System ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Professional Programs ◽  
Practice Experience ◽  
High Level ◽  
External Entity

Students enrolled in Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) programs accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health complete an applied practice experience resulting in an advanced project. This requirement can vary by program, but it commonly occurs as a singular experience after students have begun coursework. In 2016, we assessed the practicum component for the Doctor of Public Health degree at Claremont Graduate University. We sought feedback from employers and reviewed other professional programs with required practice experiences. Data indicated that successful experiences integrated didactic coursework with practice, suggesting the design of an embedded format versus a stand-alone requirement. The Advanced Integrative Practicum (AIP) was launched in Fall 2017 through a partnership between Claremont Graduate University School of Community and Global Health and Riverside University Health System. The practicum series began with an introduction to the health system through rotations led by Riverside University Health System (AIP-A), continued with students engaging with experts to propose solutions to public health issues (AIP-B), and concluded with a high-level practice-based project (AIP-C) where students, under supervision of a mentor at an external entity, implement projects. Qualitative data obtained through final written syntheses indicated that a majority of students feel the experience was integral to their DrPH training. Steps were taken to address threats to sustainability and a program component that seemed not sufficiently engaging. Although the practicum was not continued in its piloted form, best practices were realized as were lessons learned, ultimately leading to broader modifications in the DrPH program curriculum.

scholarly journals (A169) Strategic National Stockpile: American Preparedness to a Domestic Biological Attack

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s59-s59
Author(s):  
A.E. Piombino
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
The Us ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Public Health Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Strategic National Stockpile

This session offers an overview of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and the Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI), including CHEM PACK. Managed by the US Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “push-packs” of this critical federal cache of pharmaceuticals and medical materiel are at sites located throughout the country. The CDC's CRI is a federally funded program designed to compliment the SNS and enhance preparedness in the nation's largest cities and Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) where more than 50% of the US population resides. Through CRI, state and large metropolitan public health departments continue refining plans to respond to a large-scale bioterrorism attack by dispensing antibiotics to the entire population of an identified MSA with 48 hours. The SNS Technical Assistance Review (TAR) will be reviewed, as well as best practices and lessons learned from successful public health emergency preparedness and response programs throughout the US.

Stories From the Field

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (6_suppl_2) ◽  
pp. 199S-206S ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Caine ◽  
Kabi Pokhrel
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
Coalition Building

“Stories From the Field” is a series of short profiles of tobacco control programs and their leaders, showcasing promising technical assistance and training models in Louisiana, Puerto Rico, the Cherokee Nation, West Virginia, the Pacific Islands, and the Virgin Islands. The series illuminates key themes of collaboration with diverse stakeholders, elimination of health disparities, building tobacco control coalitions, engaging youth to reduce commercial tobacco use, sustaining tobacco control efforts, and the use of the media to raise public awareness that are highlighted in the Health Promotion Practice Supplement Theme Issue, Training and Technical Assistance: Lessons Learned to Sustain Social Norm Changes in Tobacco Control. Common tobacco control strategies bind the stories together. Local knowledge, coalition building, community involvement, innovative partnerships, and educational outreach are at the core of all of these tobacco control projects.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities as a Public Health Ethics Issue

2019 ◽  
pp. 276-289
Author(s):  
Stephen B. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Ethnic Disparities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Made In

It is well established that racial and ethnic minorities in the United States have lower life expectancies and suffer more from numerous health conditions than their white counterparts. This chapter draws on a US perspective to provide an overview of racial and ethnic health disparities and their causes. It describes public health policy initiatives that address racial and ethnic health disparities, situates racial disparities in the current social and political context, examines what progress has been made in reducing racial and ethnic disparities, offers an account of the moral foundations for further efforts to reduce disparities, and suggests a way forward for eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities. Public health issues of social justice, racism, and violence are discussed.

Interdependence between health and peace: a call for a new paradigm

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1590-1600
Author(s):  
Izzeldin Abuelaish ◽  
Michael S Goodstadt ◽  
Rim Mouhaffel
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Public Health Program ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Public Health Professionals ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Health and peace, and their relationships to disease/conflict/violence, are complex and multifaceted interrelated terms. Scholars have proposed a variety of definitions for health and peace. The conceptualizations of health and peace share many fundamental elements, including in their social, psychological (emotional and mental) and spiritual dimensions. We argue that health and peace are inter-dependent in a fundamental causal fashion. Health is always positively or negatively affected by conflict; peace can be directly or indirectly fostered through public health program and policy initiatives. Evidence shows that public health professionals and academics have frequently failed to recognize the inter-dependence of health and peace when conceptualizing, and addressing, issues related to health and peace. In contrast, the present article argues in support of a new paradigm for addressing public health issues related to health and peace; such a paradigm is based on the premise that health and peace are inextricably linked, requiring that they be addressed in an integrated, inter-dependent, fashion. Finally, we emphasize that fostering health and peace requires identifying and promoting positive socio-ecological influences on health, rather than limiting our focus to health deficits and obstacles at the individual or community levels.

scholarly journals Personal choice is a nuanced concept – Lessons learned from the gambling field. •

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Hodgins
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Precautionary Principle ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Personal Choice ◽  
The Core ◽  
Power Differentials

AbstractThis thoughtful framework to minimize the harm associated with emerging technologies by encouraging collaborations among stakeholders would benefit from adopting the WHO precautionary principle in order to keep public health issues at the core of discussions. It would also be helpful to acknowledge and make transparent the differences in stakeholder priorities, the power differentials among stakeholders, and the importance of institutional duty of care.

Engaging People in Tobacco Prevention and Cessation: Reflecting Back Over 20 Years Since the Master Settlement Agreement

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (12) ◽  
pp. 932-941
Author(s):  
Amanda L Graham
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Tobacco Product ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Tobacco Prevention ◽  
The Past ◽  
Widespread Adoption ◽  
Settlement Agreement ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Abstract Over the past 20 years, tobacco prevention and cessation efforts have evolved to keep pace with the changing tobacco product landscape and the widespread adoption of digital technologies. In 2019, Truth Initiative was awarded the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Jessie Gruman Award for Health Engagement in recognition of the major role it has played on both fronts since its inception in 1999. This manuscript reviews the challenges and opportunities that have emerged over the past two decades, the evolving tactics deployed by Truth Initiative to engage people in tobacco prevention and cessation efforts, the approaches used to evaluate those efforts, and key achievements. It concludes with a summary of lessons learned and considerations for tobacco control researchers and practitioners to accelerate their impact on public health.

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