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PubMed1977

The health team training model: a teaching-learning approach in community health.

Health science students worked as members of interdisciplinary health teams as the teams provided services to multiple-problem Appalachian families. The family became the focus of attention in care delivery while the Problem-Oriented Medical Record (POMR) and the family health plan were used by the teams to provide services. Intra-team issues that evolved included communication, decision making, leadership style, and role identity.

Appalachian Region↗
PubMed2002

Health care reform: opportunities for professional chaplains to build intentional communities of learners by integrating faith, science, quality, and systems thinking.

Albert Einstein once said, "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them" (www.brainyquote.com). Health care reform has brought professional chaplains to a place of chaos-a place that raises many questions about the past, present and future. This chaos presents tremendous opportunities for professional chaplains to increase their capacities in building intentional communities of learners by integrating faith, science, quality and systems thinking. Pastoral care givers must truly understand the pressures from all sides and the new emerging paradigm of integrated health care delivery. Without this understanding, we will not see the opportunities and challenges of integrating pastoral and spiritual care in the emerging structures and systems. The future of chaplaincy largely will depend on the quality of the data, quality of our conversations and our ability to thinking together through dialogue.

Health Care Reform↗
PubMed1996

Fostering the health of communities: a unifying mission for the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.

Fostering the health of communities can serve as a unifying mission of the academic health center (AHC), which can set the AHC apart from other health providers in the community. To achieve this mission, the University of New Mexico's AHC is increasingly focusing education, research, and service upon the identified health and service needs of communities in its state. Since major health problems in our society have social, behavioral, and economic roots, New Mexico's AHC has tapped into the broad expertise of its different components as well as that of its state and community partners to adequately address health problems in the community. Its hospitals offer financing and management resources, its colleges offer innovative approaches to community-based education, and the state department of health offers expertise in health policy development. To adequately respond to the complexity of community health needs, the different colleges and departments at New Mexico's AHC are increasingly merging into integrated governance units. Measures of community outreach success include evidence of strengthened community development, increased health care access, and improved indices of community health. New Mexico's AHC formed an interdisciplinary rural outreach task force, which has demonstrated its ability to form partnerships with state and local agencies and to mobilize institutional resources in education, research, and service from the AHC's different departments, colleges, and hospitals to respond promptly to unique community health needs. Evidence shows that such an integrated, coordinated AHC intervention can generate strong and lasting AHC-community alliances, improve the quality and economic viability of community health systems, and enhance the financial resources of the AHC.

Academic Medical Centers↗
PubMed1989

Science education in the United States: what the scientific community can do.

It is argued that the need to improve science education should be a national priority. Ways are suggested by which the federal government and the scientific community, working together, can address this issue. It is recommended that scientists, engineers, and educators make a significant personal and institutional commitment to participate in science education activities, and that the President of the United States provide the personal leadership to generate a national commitment to the improvement of education at all levels.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1985

The community hospital radiology clerkship: how should it be structured? Opinions of clinical and university faculty.

Michigan State University has a community-hospital-based clinical sciences curriculum. In the past, community program directors have determined radiology clerkship objectives. A survey regarding possible clerkship standardization was distributed to staff radiologists and clerkship coordinators. These radiologists were enthusiastic about standardization of the clerkship, and there was a broad consensus as to the basic elements of an effective clerkship. The university was seen as the source of minimum clerkship standards and of an objective method of evaluation. In response to these requests, basic guidelines for the clerkship have been established.

Clinical Clerkship↗
PubMed2006

A community-based participatory health information needs assessment to help eliminate diabetes information disparities.

This article describes the participatory research process, results, action plan, and implications of the community health information needs assessment conducted within the African American community in two South Carolina counties. The REACH 2010: Charleston and Georgetown Diabetes Coalition library program is a partnership among community organizations, public and health sciences libraries, and lay community health advisors. A planning committee studied digital divide issues related to health information, designed and implemented a survey, held focus groups, analyzed data, identified needs and assets, and formulated an action plan to increase the dissemination of diabetes information. Key survey findings show that older (older than 60) and less educated (fewer than 12 years of education) African Americans in Charleston and Georgetown counties lack skills to access Internet and library services and suffer disparities in health information. Based on assessment evidence, the community plans to increase Internet access points and provide a train-the-trainer program to teach people skills for using Internet and library resources to get high-quality information about diabetes and its complications. This process taps community resources, builds local capacities and technical skills, educates about health, and empowers participants as active partners in their own health and their community's health.

Adult↗
PubMed1992

Keeping community college faculty current in physiology through utilization of health science center expertise.

The maintenance of current knowledge in physiology in community colleges is very difficult to accomplish. The absence of a research environment, limited library facilities, and heavy teaching loads often result in the instructor utilizing the teaching textbook as the primary source of information. A cooperative program between The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and San Antonio Community College has been developed in which the Health Science Center faculty present updated seminars in physiology topics for the community college faculty. This program has been in existence for three years and has proved to be very effective in improving the quality of the physiology curriculum at the community college.

Curriculum↗
PubMed1991

Development of faculty consultants in a problem-based third year community medicine clerkship.

This paper describes the development of consultancy groups in behavioral science, epidemiology and biostatistics, and information science in a required community medicine rotation with a twenty year history. The addition of consultants to individual student tutors and field preceptors has led to a structure which promotes student-project flexibility, development of critical assessment skills and independent learning while maximizing faculty expertise and effectiveness.

Behavioral Sciences↗
PubMed2006

[The community health diagnosis of life-way disease in Peking University Health Science Center].

OBJECTIVE: To study the basic information of life way disease and the corresponding risk factors of behavior in the community of Peking University Health Science Center, understand the background issue and social support system, and analyze the requirement for community health service so that the critical issue for health can be dealt with and the comprehensive program of prevention and treatment of the disease can be accordingly supplied. METHODS: The random face to face questionnaire about life way disease and risk factors in 1051 residents over 6 years of age in the community of Peking University Health Science Center was conducted according to the typical sampling principle in 1 primary school, 1 middle school, 1 university and its community, and the investigations of health data from the hospital and the police office in the community were also conducted through discussing about life ways risk factors. Accordingly , the data obtained by way of EXCEL were analyzed and processed using SPSS 11.5. RESULTS: Diagnostic data of demography, epidemiology, behavior environment, education and organization were obtained concerning the public health of the Peking University Health Science Center community. CONCLUSION: The key health issue in the Peking University Health Science Center community is significantly influenced by the bad way of life. And some behavior risk factors, such as fatness, lack of outdoor exercise in the community members. Thus, the major necessary health service of Peking University Health Science Center residents is to carry out a comprehensive management program of life way disease for the whole people.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

AIDS in the Nineties: from science to policy. Care in the community and by the community.

As the numbers of people with HIV infection increase the favoured option for care in the future is to increase community and home care. Without doubt also the statutory services have recognized the need to make prevention, educational and care services sensitive and appropriate to the client group they aim to serve and many unconventional systems are being put into place in order to do this. The reality of community care is so often care by the family and volunteers and there has to be some attempt to support informal carers materially and emotionally. Without the work of these groups it would be impossible for governmental or formal agencies to provide the necessary degree of quality of care. It would seem that a combination of pressure from the 'communities' affected by HIV/AIDS and flexibility in providing care by statutory and voluntary groups has made it possible to provide different schemes of community care or at least made suitable service delivery happen more quickly and more appropriately than might otherwise have been the case. There was some feeling at the conference that it would be comforting to think that some of these innovations, hard won for HIV/AIDS, could be replicated for groups of patients in the community who may not have such a vocal advocacy group to back them.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed2001

Neuroimaging databases.

These are comments written by the Governing Council of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), the primary international organization dedicated to neuroimaging research. The purpose of these comments is to identify and frame issues concerning data sharing within the neuroimaging community. Data sharing has become an important issue in most fields of science. The neuroimaging community is no exception, and it clearly perceives potential benefits in such efforts, as have been realized in other fields such as genomics. At the same time, such efforts can be costly (both in time and expense), and there are important factors that differentiate brain imaging from other fields and that pose specific challenges to the generation of useful neuroimaging databases. These include the rapid pace of change in brain imaging technologies; the complexity of the variables that must be specified to meaningfully interpret the results (such as the method of image acquisition, behavioral design, and subject characteristics); and concerns about participant confidentiality. These issues are outlined with the goal of framing and promoting a public discussion of the benefits and risks of data sharing, which can inform the field of neuroimaging as well as others that face similar challenges.

Brain↗
PubMed1980

Nuclear power risks: challenge to the credibility of science.

For a quarter of a century the Federal Government and the nuclear industry have deliberately deceived the American public about the risks of nuclear power. Facts have been systematically withheld, distorted, and obscured, and calculations have been deliberately biased in order to present nuclear power in an unrealistically favorable light. Most persistent and flagrant have been: (a) attempts to "normalize" public perception of nuclear accident casualties with those of more familiar accidents by emphasizing only acute fatalities and ignoring or downplaying the major effects of nuclear accidents, namely, health impairment and death years delayed; and (b) the cloaking of the objectively undocumentable faith of the atomic energy establishment that a nuclear accident is extremely unlikely in a smokescreen of invalid, pseudoquantitative statistical probabilities in order to convince the public that the chance of an accident is negligible. Prime examples of these abuses are found in the Rasmussen report on nuclear reactor safety and in its representation to the public. The deceptive practices used in promoting nuclear power have seriously shaken public faith in government, technology, and science. The scientific community has a special responsibility to minimize such future political abuses of science. For those who were responsible for the deliberate breeches of public trust which resulted in this loss of faith, mere professional disdain will not suffice. They should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

Ethics↗