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Health Issues for Aging Populations

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Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Type: PowerPoint & Lecture Materials

Level: Intermediate

Description: Introduces the study of aging, its implications for individuals, families, and society, and the background for health policy related to older persons. Presents an overview on aging from different perspectives: demography, biology, epidemiology of diseases, physical and mental disorders, functional capacity and disability, health services, federal and state health policies, social aspects of aging, and ethical issues in the care of older individuals.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A



Dean’s Lecture Series: 2007-2008

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Source: John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Type: PowerPoint presentation, Lecture Materials

Level: Basic

Description: An insight on current public health issues and the work of the faculty’s own research in the field.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A



Ethical Issues in Public Health

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Source: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Type: PowerPoint / Lecture Materials

Level: Basic

Description: A theoretical and critical approach to issues in Public Health, including access to health care and rights for autonomy.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A



A New Way to Talk About the Social Determinants of Health

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Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Type: PDF Guide & Webinar Slides, Audio

Level: Intermediate

Description: Reviewing differences in how social determinants of health are viewed.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A



Planning for Healthy Places with Health Impact Assessments

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Source: American Planning Association and the National Association of County & City Health Officials

Type: Online Course

Level: Intermediate

Description: This online course explains the value of conducting an HIA and the steps involved in conducting an HIA. The course, developed by the American Planning Association and the National Association of County & City Health Officials, was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A



Excellence Centers To Eliminate Ethnic/Racial Disparities (EXCEED) Program

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Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Type: PDF Document

Level: Intermediate

Description: To understand the causes and factors of these inequalities, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded grants to nine “Excellence Centers To Eliminate Ethnic/Racial Disparities” (EXCEED). Each center is investigating a different theme in an effort to identify and eliminate the causes of health disparities.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A



The National Health Plan Collaborative Toolkit

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Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Type: Online Course

Level: Basic

Description: The National Health Plan Collaborative has created this toolkit of resources, lessons, best practices and case studies to help other health plans join the effort to reduce disparities. The toolkit shares what the Collaborative members have done to develop and test new methods of measuring and addressing racial and ethnic disparities so that other health care decision-makers and leaders can learn from this work, implement these best practices and make the case for addressing the unacceptable differences in health care and health outcomes for health plan members throughout the country.

Continuing Education Credits: N/A



Tools for Building Research Infrastructure at Health Centers

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Source: Clinical Directors Network, Inc.

Type: PDF Powerpoint Handout

Level: Basic

Description: This is a PDF hand-out of a presentation conducted by Dr. Jonathan N. Tobin, President and CEO of Clinical Directors Network, at the 2013 National Association of Community Health Centers Community Health Institute and Expo in Chicago, IL.  As a best-practice example, he discusses the infrastructure of this Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN), Clinical Directors Network, and also a network of PBRNS, N2: Building a Network of Safety Net PBRNS, which is funded by the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ, Grant # 1 P30-HS-021667). He describes how this infrastructure supports bottom-up and top-down approaches to translational research implementation within Health Centers across the nation. He also describes an example of research training for clinical leaders, conducted at Lutheran Family Health Centers, a program meant to facilitate the development of translational research within Health Center networks.

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NACHC CHI2013 Tools for Building Research Infrastructure at Health Centers



Formative Evaluation: Fostering Real-Time Adaptions and Refinements to Improve the Effectiveness of Patient-Centered Medical Home Interventions

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Source: PCMH (Patient Centered Medical Home)

Type: Article

Level: Intermediate

Description: This article explains the different stages of formative evaluations.



Efficient Orthogonal Designs: Testing the Comparative Effectiveness of Alternative Ways of Implementing Patient-Centered Medical Home Components

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Source: PCMH (Patient Centered Medical Home)

Type: Article

Level: Intermediate

Description: “Efficient orthogonal design is a tool that must be used at the outset of a study that can be used to compare the effectiveness of different ways of deploying each component of a PCMH, as well as how the effects of individual components interact with one another.” www.pcmh.ahrq.gov