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A commentary on drivers of community health needs assessment
Hatcher MT . J Public Health Manag Pract 2015 21 (1) 31-3 In many communities, perception of an asymmetrical power relationship between public health and hospital leaders exists largely because of the resources hospitals generate and control. The Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) community health needs assessment (CHNA) requirement has likely not changed that dynamic but it may reshape public health and hospital relationships. Three articles presented in this journal’s edition explore how the ACA’s CHNA requirement may influence interactions and relationships between public health departments and nonprofit hospitals. | | The first, of these 3 articles, is written by Laymon and colleagues.1 The authors examine the potential role that Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) standards for community health assessment (CHA) and community health improvement planning may play in increasing public health department collaboration with hospitals having a nonprofit tax exemption, which under the ACA requires the hospital to conduct a CHNA to identify and invest in improving community health under section 501(r)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Laymon and colleagues also present information on use of data from the National Profile of Local Health Departments and data from CHA, CHNA, community health improvement planning, and other implementation planning reports to establish a baseline for public health and hospital collaboration. |
Integrating environmental health into medical education
Gehle KS , Crawford JL , Hatcher MT . Am J Prev Med 2011 41 S296-301 Although environmental factors contribute to more than 25% of all global disease, and toxic agents ranked fifth in underlying causes of U.S. deaths in 2000, environmental medicine education is largely omitted in the continuum of U.S. medical education. The paucity of specialists trained in environmental medicine (i.e., occupational medicine and other preventive medicine specialties and subspecialties), coupled with the lack of adequate general medical education on how to prevent, diagnose, refer, or treat patients exposed to hazardous substances in the environment, contributes to lost opportunities for primary prevention or early intervention to mitigate or minimize environmentally related disease burden. Survey findings of graduating medical students over the past few years have identified environmental health as a medical school topic area that can be improved. This article reflects a panel presentation on the challenge of including environmental health in general medical education. It was given at the 2010 "Patients and Populations: Public Health in Medical Education" conference cosponsored by the CDC and the American Association of Medical Colleges. A variety of educational strategies, models, and educational resources are presented that illustrate how recommended competency-based environmental health content can be integrated into medical education to better prepare medical students and physicians without specialized expertise in environmental medicine to provide or facilitate environmental preventive or curative patient care. |
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