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CCPH Partnership
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Volume VII, Issue I, January 7,
2005
Message from Our Executive Director
Membership
Matters
Upcoming Events
NATIONAL COLLABORATIVE SEEKS TO
CHANGE ACADEMIC CULTURE TO EMBRACE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is pleased to announce the Community-Engaged
Scholarship for Health Collaborative.
Funded by a three-year $563,842 grant from the U.S. Department of
Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, the
Collaborative is comprised of a diverse group of ten health professional schools
that seek to recognize and reward community engagement as central to the role
of faculty members at
their own institutions and nationally.
The Collaborative responds to recommendations of many prominent national
groups that are calling upon health professional schools to be more engaged in
their communities, including the Institute of Medicine, the Pew Health
Professions Commission and the Commission on Community-Engaged Scholarship in
the Health Professions. All of these groups advance
partnerships with communities as an essential strategy for improving health
professional education, increasing health workforce diversity and eliminating
health disparities. Unfortunately,
community engagement often conflicts with how faculty are recognized and
rewarded. “There are many faculty
members in health professional schools across the country who are passionate
about their work in communities and who are pursuing it despite the prevailing
academic culture and reward system,” notes CCPH executive director Sarena D.
Seifer. “We applaud and support their
efforts. However, until community-based
teaching, research and service is accepted as genuine scholarship and
adequately recognized and rewarded in the faculty promotion and tenure system,
they will continue to be marginalized and isolated from the academic
mainstream. The Collaborative is at its
core about changing institutional culture and incentives to realize the promise
of the engaged campus.”
The
Collaborative aims to increase support for community-engaged scholarship in the
participating schools and in health professional schools nationally. Campus teams reflecting such key
stakeholders as community partners, provosts, deans, department chairs,
promotion & tenure committees and faculty members will convene for the
first annual meeting of the Collaborative from February 16-18, 2005 in
Nashville, TN. The teams will be
supported in their campus change efforts through ongoing opportunities for
training, technical assistance and information-sharing. Strategic partnerships with national
organizations will facilitate the dissemination of lessons learned to the
broader health professions education community. By the conclusion of the three-year project, the schools participating
in the Collaborative will have significantly changed their promotion &
tenure systems to recognize and reward community-engaged scholarship and
stimulated similar actions in schools across the country.
The schools participating in the collaborative, in alphabetical order,
are: Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy, Case Western University
School of Nursing, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Loma Linda
University School of Public Health, University of Cincinnati College of Allied
Health Sciences, University of Colorado School of Pharmacy, University of
Massachusetts Worcester School of Nursing, University of Minnesota Academic
Health Center, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Dentistry and
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
CCPH welcomes suggestions of key articles, reports, people and programs
that can inform the Collaborative’s work.
Questions and suggestions may be sent to program director Jen
Kauper-Brown by e-mail: jenbr@u.washington.edu, by
phone: 206/543-7954, by fax: 206-685-6747
or by mail: UW Box 354809, Seattle, WA 98195-4809.
Stay connected with the project and related work through the
Community-Engaged Scholarship electronic discussion group at https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/comm-engagedscholarship Project updates and reports will also be
posted on the CCPH website as they become available at www.ccph.info
To
learn more about the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, visit
the FIPSE website at www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/fipse/index.html
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY
SERVICE-LEARNING ANNOUNCED
The
Canadian Association of Community Service-Learning has just been launched with
funding from the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. The Association will be housed at the University of Guelph for
its first year. First steps include legal incorporation as a non-profit
association, development of a website and online clearinghouse, creation of
logo and identifiers, and establishment of the date and location for an annual
conference. A Canadian service-learning listserv has been set up. To subscribe, please send an email to
listserv@listserv.uoguelph.ca that reads: SUBSCRIBE canadian-service-learning
your name
For
more information, please contact:
Cheryl Rose Interim Executive
Director, Canadian Association for Community Service-Learning at crose@uoguelph.ca.
PREVENTING CHILDHOOD OBESITY
No
single sector of society is to blame for the current epidemic of childhood
obesity, and all of us will have to work together to correct the problem, the
Institute of Medicine (IOM) said in a report released September 30. But the
report goes on to outline some specific steps that the various sectors of society
including schools must take to overcome what the IOM calls "this terrible
threat to our children's health."
Here
are some of the report's recommendations:
For
parents: Make progress toward a more active lifestyle. "Parents should
encourage children to engage in regular physical activity, provide them with
healthful foods, and serve as good role models. The report recommends that
parents limit television viewing to no more than two hours a day. However,
parents and families acting alone cannot reverse the climbing rates of
obesity," said Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan, who chaired the IOM study committee.
"Changes are needed in our schools and communities, as well as at the
national level. Just as it was imperative to make changes across society to
protect youth from the hazards of tobacco smoking, it is now critical to alter
social norms and attitudes so that healthful eating behaviors and regular
physical activity become a daily part of life for our children and youth."
For
schools: At all levels, from preschool through high school, implement
nutritional standards set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other
federal agencies for all foods and beverages served on school grounds,
including those dispensed by vending machines. Expand opportunities for all
students to engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity
every day. Coordinate changes in the curriculum, the advertising that is done
in schools, school health services, and after-school activities to assure that
all offer the potential to help prevent obesity.
For
health care professionals: Use their access and influence to discuss a child's
weight status with his or her parents and make recommendations on dietary
intake and physical activity. Training in using body mass index (BMI) charts
and counseling patients and families on weight issues should be a part of the
curriculum in health professional schools.
For
the food, beverage, and entertainment industries: Voluntarily develop and
implement guidelines for advertising and marketing directed at children and
youth. Congress should give the Federal Trade Commission authority to monitor
compliance with those guidelines and establish external review boards to
prohibit ads that fail to comply. Restaurants should continue to expand their
offerings of nutritious foods and beverages and should provide calorie content
and other nutrition information.
For
community organizations and state and local governments: Expand programs that
promote physical activity and healthful eating. Improve the built
environment--roads, bike paths, sidewalks, and playgrounds by prioritizing
these components for capital investment and examining zoning ordinances.
For
the federal government: Provide the leadership that is needed to make obesity
prevention a national public health priority. Develop pilot programs to explore
changes in federal food assistance programs that could promote healthful
eating. Increase support for obesity prevention programs, surveillance, and
research.
Citing
the "alarming rate" at which childhood obesity is growing in America,
the report notes that the rate of obesity in preschool children and adolescents
has more than doubled in the past three decades, and the rate for children 6 to
11 years old has tripled. Approximately 9 million children over 6 years of age
are now considered obese, and the amount of weight carried by the heaviest
children is greater than it was 30 years ago.
The
Institute of Medicine report was requested by members of Congress who asked for
guidance in developing a science-based approach to childhood obesity. The
report, "Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance," is
available online at http://www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=22596.
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND
PREVENTION (CDC) INVESTS $73 MILLION TO IMPROVE HEALTH INFORMATION SERVICES FOR
THE PUBLIC
The
CDC has announced the award of a seven-year, $73 million contract to provide a
single point of contact for consumers and health professionals to access
comprehensive, timely, and credible health information.
"Communicating
directly with the American public has become a vital part of CDC's role in
protecting the nation's health and safety," said CDC Director Dr. Julie
Gerberding. "With this unified approach, we will get the right health
information to the right people at the right time."
The
new service will integrate more than 40 hotlines, clearinghouses, automated
voice and facsimile response systems into one comprehensive contact service
center available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The contact center will cover
telephone, facsimile, e-mail, postal mail, and web-based contacts and responses
and include multilingual and hearing-impaired services.
"Pearson
Government Solutions has been contracted by CDC to use the industry's leading
approaches and technologies to provide the best consumer experience
possible," said CDC Chief Operating Officer Bill Gimson. "Through
this action, we increase the level of service and breadth of health information
available to the consumer at one phone number."
Pearson
provides consumer information services for more than 32 federal programs,
including the Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department
of Education.
CDC
currently responds to more than 3 million public inquiries a year on such
topics as international travel, childhood immunizations, obesity, heart disease
and stroke, adolescent health, terrorism preparedness, disease outbreaks,
injuries, birth defects, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and
environmental threats.
"We
are very excited about this new opportunity to improve CDC's service to the
public and health professionals," said Jim Seligman, CDC Chief Information
Officer. "Accurate health information is vitally important for people to
make good health choices. While CDC's website has grown dramatically to over 10
million visitors a month, many consumers need other means to get health
information or want an integrated approach between direct person-to-person and
electronic interactions."
The
new toll-free consolidated consumer response service will be phased in during
the next few months. Callers can continue to use existing CDC hotline numbers.
As the new contract is implemented, calls from existing hotlines will
automatically be transferred to the new number.
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MESSAGE FROM OUR
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The
New Year marks new beginnings, including for us here at Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health. With this
issue of Partnership Matters newsletter we unveil a number of new developments:
First,
we have made what we hope are significant improvements to the format and
content of the newsletter. Thanks to
the many responses we received to last year’s reader survey and to the efforts
of editor Annika Robbins and webmaster Kat Ascharya, you’ll
notice these and other changes:
§ The
newsletter is now in HTML format, allowing you to easily scan each issue and link
directly to resources that interest
you.
§ The
newsletter is no longer password protected.
CCPH members will continue to be notified of new issues as they are
posted on the website every other Friday, ensuring members receive the
information in a timely manner.
§
Listings for upcoming conferences, funding
opportunities, calls for papers and other time-sensitive items will remain up
on the website until the deadline has passed.
In the past, readers would have had to open up and scan back issues for
previously announced items or miss them altogether.
Second,
as CCPH staff members have excelled in their work, taken on new responsibilities
and embraced new opportunities, their positions have changed to recognize their
new roles. Annika Robbins has been
promoted from administrative coordinator to administrative director as she
enters her third year on the CCPH staff.
Jen Kauper-Brown, in her second year on the CCPH staff, has been
promoted from program coordinator to program director. Congratulations to both!
CCPH is a dynamic organization. We are continuously
working to expand our capacity and improve our programs and services. We are driven by our desire to equip you with
the knowledge, skills and strategies you need to create and sustain successful
health-promoting community-campus partnerships. We encourage and welcome your questions, comments and
suggestions at any point throughout the year!
THEME JOURNAL ISSUE ON
COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AROUND THE WORLD
The
November 2004 issue of the international Journal of Interprofessional Care is
focused on the theme of community-based participatory research. Visit http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=WP6TA2TN1HAJ
for the table of contents and abstracts.
CCPH
executive director Sarena D. Seifer and program director Jen Kauper-Brown
served as issue co-editors. Seifer and CCPH senior consultant Diane Calleson
co-authored a paper in the issue on "Health professional faculty
perspectives on
community-based
research: implications for policy and practice." The article can be downloaded at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/commbas.html#JournalArticles
For
more resources on CBPR, visit http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/commbas.html
HEALTHIER WISCONSIN PARTNERSHIP
PROGRAM ANNOUNCES FIRST ROUND OF GRANTS
CCPH Manages Proposal Merit Review
Process
The
Medical College of Wisconsin Board of Trustees has approved the 2004 slate of
projects for the Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program. To read about the
program and the new funding awards, visit http://www.mcw.edu/healthierwisconsin
or
http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=7668
Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health facilitated the level I merit review process of the
proposals submitted for funding. All
proposals were expected to embrace community health improvement, principles of
community-academic partnerships and the principles of stewardship. To read more about the review process, visit
http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=5570
“MEMBER-GET-A-MEMBER”
CAMPAIGN ENDS SOON!
More CCPH members means a diversity of viewpoints, ideas and
perspectives and a stronger voice to influence policies that affect community-campus
partnerships. When you recruit new members you’ll also reward yourself. When
you recruit a new CCPH member, both you and the new member will be entered into
a drawing for $100 CCPH dollars. These dollars can be used to purchase CCPH
products, such as publications, registrations for CCPH events and additional
memberships. In addition, the CCPH
member who recruits the most new members will receive $150 CCPH dollars! Start recruiting now - this special ends on
January 30, 2005!
Just refer your colleagues to join online by credit card: http://www.regonline.com/eventinfo.asp?EventId=8776 or by check: http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/pdf_files/Jan2004.membbrocpdf.pdf
Make
sure the new member enters your name in the application section, “How did you hear about CCPH?”
If you have any questions, or would like us to send you
some CCPH membership brochures, please contact us at (206) 543-8178 or ccphuw@u.washington.edu.
JOIN
CCPH AT THESE UPCOMING EVENTS
For more event
listings, visit CCPH’s website at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conferences.html.
March
1-3, 2005: Visit the CCPH exhibit at the 19th
National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: Health
Disparities: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in
Atlanta, Georgia. This conference will focus on efforts to eliminate
disparities and will explore more rigorous approaches for accomplishing the
Healthy People 2010 objectives. The major goal of the conference is to
accelerate the rate of progress in improving the lives for those at highest
risk for poor health, including racial and ethnic minorities, and low-income
and less educated populations. To learn more about the CDC conference, visit http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/conference.
March
3-5, 2005: Community Health Solutions-
Keeping the Drive Alive, the second joint conference
of the Association for
Community
Health Improvement (ACHI) and Communities Joined in Action (CJA) in Tampa,
Florida. CCPH will be facilitating
an interactive workshop entitled “Health Institutions as Economic and Community
Anchors: Case Studies and Practical Strategies” at the conference. Visit the
web site for the latest information and on-line registration: http://www.communityhlth.org/communityhlth/conference/annual.html
or http://www.cjaonline.net.
NEW EVENT
LISTINGS
For details on all
upcoming event listings, visit CCPH’s website at http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/conferences.html.
February
4, 2005: Health
In Foreign Policy Forum 2005 in Washington, DC.
February
19-23, 2005: Association
of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) 2005 Annual Conference on
Delivering Results: Improving Pregnancy and Birth
in Washington, D.C.
February
21-25, 2005: The
Second Congress on Integral Adolescent Health Care and First Caribbean Congress
on Integral Adolescent Health Care in Santiago de Cuba,
Cuba.
February 23-25, 2005: Epidemiology
in Action: Intermediate Methods Course at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
February
25, 2005: 26th
Annual University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Public Health
Minority Health Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
March
20-25, 2005: The Community Development Academy is offering three
courses in Springs, Missouri.
Cervical Health Awareness Month,
January
Although cervical cancer is highly preventable and treatable, women continue to
develop cervical cancer in the US at the rate of about 12,000-14,000 per year.
About 4000 women die from cervical cancer in the United States every year. Free
Cervical Cancer Screening Day occurs the second Friday of every January (this
year, January 14th). This is a day to encourage clinicians and labs to
provide free Pap tests to women who are unable to afford it and haven't had a
Pap test in 3 years or more.
National Cervical Cancer Coalition - http://www.nccc-online.org/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/info-cc.htm
National Birth
Defects Prevention Month, January
Not all birth
defects can be prevented, but a woman can take some actions that increase her
chance of having a healthy baby. Many birth defects happen very early in
pregnancy, sometimes before a woman even knows she is pregnant.
March of Dimes - http://www.marchofdimes.com/home.asp
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/default.htm
Healthy Weight Week,
January 16-22
Healthy Weight Week is a time to celebrate healthy lifestyles that last a
lifetime and prevent eating and weight problems. Eat well, live actively, and
feel good about yourself and others. It's a welcome change from the dieting and
bingeing that typically begin the New Year!
Healthy Weight - http://www.healthyweight.net/hww.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/index.htm
After School Programs: A Tool for State and Local Policy
Makers
This
tool provides a framework for estimating supply and demand -- from basic steps
to an in-depth review -- by summarizing and highlighting experiences in a
number of states. This tool describes the ways states and communities have made
estimates and included lessons learned from pioneers in the field. http://nccic.org/afterschool/SupplyDemand.pdf
Harvard SPH Report Examines the Use
of Rape as a Weapon of War
In
the Darfur region of western Sudan, government-backed militia have engaged in
widespread rape of the non-Arab community.
Recent international criminal tribunals in Rwanda and the former
Yugoslavia have made convictions for wartime rape, yet there is currently no
system providing accountability or justice in Darfur. At the request of USAID,
the Franois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at the
Harvard School of Public Health, with assistance from Physicians for Human
Rights, produced a report on this subject.
Dr. Jennifer Leaning, director of the Program on Humanitarian Crises and
Human Rights at the FXB Center and Ms. Tara R. Gingerich, program manager,
Program on Humanitarian Crises and Human Rights, FXB Center, co-authored the
report.
To read the full report, visit: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/.
University of Pittsburgh Graduate
School of Public Health’s (GSPH) Stephen Thomas appears on CNN's Anderson
Cooper 360 Degrees
Dr.
Stephen Thomas, director of the Center for Minority Health and Philip Hallen
Professor of Community Health and Social Justice at the University of
Pittsburgh GSPH, were interviewed on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees program
on December 2, as part of a segment regarding conspiracy theories and HIV/AIDS
among African-Americans. Dr. Thomas was asked to comment on what some believe
is a conspiracy by the US government to eliminate African-Americans and other
"undesirable" populations through the creation and spread of the
HIV/AIDS virus. Dr. Thomas spoke of a
study he conducted with Dr. Sandra Crouse Quinn, associate dean of student
affairs and education and associate professor of behavioral and community
health sciences at GSPH. Study results
show that this belief among the African-American community could be traced
directly to the history of the infamous Tuskegee study.
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Grants
for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health
Deadlines: Feb 1, June 1, Nov 1
The
NLM Grants are awarded for the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other
scholarly works of value to US health professionals, public health officials,
biomedical researchers, and historians of the health sciences. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-05-025.html
Social and Cultural Dimensions of
Health Program Grant Announcement
Deadline: Feb 1
The
ultimate goal of this program announcement is to encourage the development of
health research that integrates knowledge from the biomedical and social
sciences. For details, visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-05-029.html
Youth Nutrition and Fitness
Programs
Deadline: Feb 1
The
goal of the General Mills Champions Youth Nutrition and Fitness Initiative is
to improve youth nutrition and fitness across the U.S. The Initiative will
award 50 grants of $10,000 each to community-based groups that develop creative
programs to help youth (ages 2-20) adopt a balanced diet and physically active
lifestyle. Grants will be awarded to programs that demonstrate significant
potential impact on youth groups that are at-risk or that have an impact on
large populations of youth. Nonprofit organizations, government agencies,
schools/school districts, and Native American tribes throughout the U.S. are
eligible to apply. Details: http://www.generalmills.com/corporate/commitment/champions.aspx
Building Interdisciplinary Research
Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH)
Deadline: Feb 23
The
National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) and
its cosponsors invite institutional career development award applications for BIRCWH
Career Development Programs. Programs will support research career development
of junior faculty members, known as Interdisciplinary Women's Health Research Scholars,
who have recently completed clinical training or postdoctoral fellowships, and
who are commencing basic, translational, behavioral, clinical, and/or health
services research relevant to women's health. The goal of this initiative is to
promote the performance of interdisciplinary research and transfer of findings
that will benefit the health of women, including sex/gender similarities or
differences in biology, health or disease.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-05-002.html
U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 Program
Deadline: Feb 28
The US Environmental Protection
Agency, Region 6, is soliciting grant and cooperative agreement initial
proposals (IP's) for projects in the New Mexico-Texas-Chihuahua and
Texas-Coahuila-Nuevo Leo-Tamaulipaus Regional Workgroup areas that address the
objectives of the U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 Program. The U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 Program is a binational collborative
effort whose mission is to protect the environment and public health in the
U.S.-Mexico border region (100 kilometers either side of the
U.S.-Mexico border) consistent
with the principles of sustainable development. http://www.fedgrants.gov/Applicants/EPA/OGD/GAD/EPA-GRANTS-122104-002/Grant.html
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
Harvard School of Public Health Yerby Postdoctoral Fellowship
Announcement, 2005-2006
Deadline: Jan 15
The aim of this program
is to promote diversity in academic public health. Eligible applicants must have received their doctoral degree in a
relevant discipline by Sept. 2005. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/php/pts/yerby_home.htm
The World Health Organization (WHO)
Public Competition for Logo Design - Commission on Social Determinants of
Health
Deadline: Jan 15
WHO
announces a public competition for the logo design for the new Commission on
Social Determinants of Health. This invitation is extended to all amateur and
professional designers who are not serving WHO staff members, or immediate
family members of WHO staff members. The logo will form the basis of all visual
representations of the Commission in print, web and broadcast communications,
and within these and other communication materials will be disseminated to
specialist communities and the general public, in all parts of the world. WHO
wishes to receive submissions from all regions of the world, encouraging
designers in the developing as well as developed world, established and new
designers. http://www.who.int/social_determinants/logo_competition/en/
Health Industry Forum Request for
Proposals
Deadline: Jan 18
The
Health Industry Forum is a new initiative established to engage leaders from
across the healthcare community in constructive dialogue on strategies to
improve the quality and value of health care. In its first solicitation, the
Forum has allocated up to $800,000 to support research to provide insight into
disease management programs and how they can be implemented most effectively.
The Forum will consider proposals from academic institutions and from
independent research organizations. To download the RFP, go to the Health
Industry Forum web site http://sihp.brandeis.edu/forum/
The American Public Health
Association's (APHA) Call For Abstracts
Deadline: Feb 10
The
APHA’s 2005 Annual Meeting will be held in New Orleans, LA on November 5-9, 2005.
APHA invites abstracts that reflect a
diversity of community-based public health activities, including basic and
applied research projects, interventions, teaching and service learning
projects. Of particular interest are presentations that will provide
participants with enhanced knowledge and skills to conduct community-based
public health activities, as well as those that explicitly describe the
application of community-based participatory research to policy change and
decision-making at the local, state and federal level. Abstracts will be
accepted through the APHA web site, http://www.apha.org/meetings.
Call
for Applications: The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program
Deadline:
Feb 15
This
program is designed to augment clinical training by providing new skills and
perspectives necessary to achieve 21st century leadership positions both within
and outside the walls of academia. The program stresses training in the
quantitative and qualitative sciences underlying health services research
essential to improving health and medical care systems. The program's newest iteration will also emphasize
community-based research
and leadership training. The program offers graduate-level study and
research as part of a university-based post-residency training program.
Four participating institutions will be recruiting scholars, including:
University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Michigan; the
University of Pennsylvania; and Yale University. Up to 28 scholars will
be selected in 2005 for appointments beginning in July 2006. For complete
information, see http://www.rwjf.org/cfp/clinicalscholars.
American Psychiatric Association
Scholarships
Deadline: Feb 18
The
American Psychiatric Association invites ethnic minority medical students who
have an interest in psychiatric issues to apply for the 2005 Minority Medical
Student Scholarships and Awards: Travel Scholarships for Minority Medical Students
Annual meeting. Students will attend sessions for experts and trainees alike,
and be assigned to a mentor. http://www.psych.org/edu/other_res/apa_fellowship/MedStudTravApp04.pdf
Minority Medical Student Summer
Mentoring Program Application
Deadline: Feb 28
This
program is intended to identify ethnic minority medical students who have an
interest in psychiatric issues and expose students to a setting where they can
work closely with a psychiatrist mentor for one month. http://www.psych.org/edu/other_res/apa_fellowship/MedStudTravApp04.pdf
PUBLICATIONS
Keep the Beat: Heart Healthy
Recipes from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
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heart healthy, taste-tested recipes sure to please. Also includes how to keep
the "heart" in old family favorites and fast facts on fiber, fat, and
salt. Order item #2921. ONLY $4.00 each. http://mail.nhlbi-nih.info/t/848/556158/17/6/
Delicious Heart Healthy Latino
Recipes
Learn
to cook some of your favorite traditional Latino dishes in a heart healthy way.
This bilingual cookbook contains 23 tested recipes that cut down on f*at,
especially saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium but not on taste. These
delicious recipes are destined to become family favorites. Order item #4049.
ONLY $3.00 each. http://mail.nhlbi-nih.info/t/848/556158/18/6/
The Practical Guide:
Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults
The goal of the
Practical Guide is to provide the tools health care professionals need to
effectively manage your overweight and obese adult patients. This guide
includes 30 pages of reproducible patient handouts containing sample reduced
calorie menus, dining out tips, exercise plans, and record sheets. A Guide to
Behavior Change, a Body Mass Indicator table, and Weekly Food and Activity
Diary are also included among the patient handouts. Order item #4084. Only
$5.50 each.
http://mail.nhlbi-nih.info/t/848/556158/19/6/
The Women's Health and Mortality
Chartbook
Hawaii
has the lowest overall death rate for women, Colorado the lowest rate of
obesity, and Minnesota ranks best in terms of health insurance coverage. These findings and more are in a new report,
The Women's Health and Mortality Chartbook, a collection of current state data
on critical issues of relevance to women's health. Prepared by the HHS Office on Women's Health and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the report ranks each state, the District
of Columbia and Puerto Rico in 27 indicators, including major causes of death,
health risk factors, preventive care, and health insurance coverage. The
chartbook maps each indicator so that state and regional patterns can be
discerned. It also ranks the 27 health
measures for each state to help policymakers, program officials, researchers
and others identify key issues of importance in each state. The state tables show data by race and
ethnicity to focus on disparities and differences in each indicator.
To view or download a
copy of the report, go to the CDC website at www.cdc.gov/nchs.
Challenging Health System Sustainability:
Understanding Health System Performance of Leading Countries
Report, by The Conference Board of
Canada, June 2004
"..... to provide insights for
key decision-makers on the performance, productivity and management practices
of health care in other OECD countries. The focus is on Switzerland, Sweden,
Spain, France, Australia and New Zealand. The report identifies best practices
in these countries and gives possible directions for further
analysis....." Available online at: http://www.health.gov.ab.ca/resources/publications/pdf/conference_board2.pdf
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