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Community and Public Health Resources
General Resources
CDC Obesity Trends 2004 PowerPoint (1.2MB)
Health Care and the
Underserved: America's Poor and Managed Care (PDF 87KB)
Gives a thorough overview of the effects that the trend toward
managed care is having on health-care underserved populations
in the United States. 1999
Medical Student Activism: A Primer
on Domestic and International Tobacco Control (PDF 122KB)
Provides an overview of the domestic and international harms
resulting from tobacco use and its promotion by multinational
corporations, a timeline of key events and an introduction to
available resources.
Promoting Healthy Behaviors: Linking Student Health to Prevention (315KB PowerPoint Presentation)
Health Dialogues: A Tool to Help You and Your Patients Change Unhealthy Behavior
Medical students rarely have the opportunity to learn about behavior change during medical school. However, studies have shown that physicians have great influence over patients' behaviors. Health Dialogues is a series of booklets designed to educate students on how to elicit behavior change among their future patients and to make students aware of their own behaviors so they, too, can make healthy lifestyle adjustments. 2002
Prison & Correctional Health
- Understanding Prison Health Care: Women's Health
Gives a great overview of women's health care in the correctional system, especially where it's lacking and areas for improvement. The women's health section is a section of a website addressing general health for both men and women in prison.
- International Committee of the Red Cross: Women in Prison and HIV
Addresses the health of women in prison, specifically their susceptibility to HIV/AIDS
- National Commission on Correctional Health (NCCH)
This site includes a position statement on the status of women's health care in correctional settings. Not only does it provide excellent statistics, but it also offers a proposed solution to the problem.
- The official corrections healthcare network site
It provides information on health care for inmates in the correctional system. The organization is intended to encourage communication among corrections and criminal justice health care professionals and to inform the industry of new developments, trends and initiatives that affect correctional systems nationwide (mission statement).
CPHI Toolkit (1.9MB Zip File)
How to Run a Mini-Community and Public Health Institute
Starting a Student-Run Homeless Clinic
A Guidebook for Health Professions Students on the Process of
Establishing a Clinic - developed through the combined effort
of the AMSA Foundation and the Health Resources and Services
Administration, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Division of Programs for Special Populations, Health Care for the Homeless Branch.
Planning a Rotation of Elective in the Health Care for the Homeless Program
A Guide for Health Professions Students - developed through the
combined effort of the AMSA Foundation and the Health Resources
and Services Administration, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Division of Programs for Special Populations, Health Care for the Homeless Branch.
Primary Care Educational Modules
The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Educational Program
for Clinical and Community Issues in Primary Care
AMSA Community and Public Health Recommended Reading List
Project Guides
Responsible Sexual Behavior Project
Implement this project at your school to create awareness among your peers regarding responsible sexual behaviors and to help them achieve the comfort and competency to discuss their patients' sexual health.
STATS Manual (Students
Teaching AIDS to Students)
STATS is AMSA's award-winning project designed for medical
students interested in teaching students in grades 4-12 about
HIV infection and prevention.
Projects-in-a-Box
C.O.R.E.: Cancer Outreach and Relief
Effort (PDF 24KB)
Pairs medical students with siblings of pediatric cancer patients,
providing support to the child and the family and a learning
opportunity for the student.
Preventing Adolescent Violence:
A Guide for Medical Students (PDF 105KB)
Discusses factors contributing to adolescent violence, public
health approaches, what medical students can do. Includes list
of resources. 1996
Tobacco Awareness Project (TAP): A
Guide for Getting Started (PDF 100KB)
Step-by-step guide for implementing a tobacco awareness program
in community middle schools. Includes health facts, games, role-playing
scenarios, list of resources and more. 1996
Community Connections: A Sourcebook
for Local Community Health Projects (PDF 76KB)
How to start a community health project at your school, from
identifying the need, through planning and fund-raising, to the
logistics of setting up.
Teen Mentor Program (PDF
96KB)
Medical students serve as mentors to teenagers who are substance
abusers or at risk for substance abuse. 1999
The BUDDIES Program Start-Up Kit
(PDF 39KB)
Matching medical/health professional students with chronically
ill children and their families to lend support and companionship
and encourage the pediatric patient through the course of treatment.
Into the Streets: How to Plan a
Community Service Day Project at Your School (PDF 44KB)
Suggests ideas and ways to start a one-day project to benefit
your community and your school.
Health Care for the Homeless (PDF
165KB)
1996 AMSA National Project
Stamp Out Smoking (PDF 129KB)
1997 AMSA National Project
Teen Pregnancy (PDF 157KB)
1998 AMSA National Project
Substance Abuse Prevention
1999 AMSA National Project
Web Links
Community Outreach
Children's
Defense Fund: To leave no child behind and to ensure every
child a healthy start, a head start, a fair start, a safe start
and a moral start in life and successful passage to adulthood
with the help of caring families and communities.
Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health: Fosters health- promoting partnerships
between communities and educational insitutions.
The
Community Guide to Preventive Services: A set of recommendations,
based on scientific evidence, for the use of interventions for
a variety of public health topics.
Free Clinics: Community Based Clinics for Medically Underserved and Uninsured
The
Share Health Project: A partnership that trains volunteers
to become "Health Advocates" in their communities.
Medical Student-Run Clinics of America (MSCA)
MSCA was created to network student-run clinics across the nation in order to foster communication and allow each clinic to learn from the others. Also, the website will serve as a means for schools without a clinic to start their own.
Governmental Bodies
US Dept. of
Health and Human Services: The US government's principle
agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing
essential human services.
Administration
for Children and Families (ACF): responsible for some 60
programs which provide services and assistance to needy children
and families, administers the new state-federal welfare program,
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, administers the national
child support enforcement system, and the Head Start program,
provides funds to assist low-income families in paying for child
care, and supports state programs to provide for foster care
and adoption assistance.
Administration
on Aging (AOA): supports a nationwide aging network, providing
services to the elderly, especially to enable them to remain
independent. AoA supports some 240 million meals for the elderly
each year, including home-delivered "meals on wheels,"
helps provide transportation and at-home services, supports ombudsman
services for elderly, and provides policy leadership on aging
issues.
Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): supports cross-cutting
research on health care systems, health care quality and cost
issues, and effectiveness of medical treatments.
Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR): works
with states and other federal agencies to prevent exposure to
hazardous substances from waste sites. The agency conducts public
health assessments, health studies, surveillance activities,
and health education training in communities around waste sites
on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities
List.
Bureau
of Primary Health Care: Increases access to comprehensive
primary and preventive health care and to improve the health
status of the underserved and vulnerable populations who experience
financial, geographic or cultural barriers to care.
Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): provides a system of
health surveillance to monitor and prevent outbreak of diseases.
With the assistance of states and other partners, CDC guards
against international disease transmission, maintains national
health statistics and provides for immunization services and
supports research into disease and injury prevention.
Food and Drug
Administration (FDA): assures the safety of foods and cosmetics,
and the safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals, biological products
and medical devices.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): administers the Medicare,
Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance (CHIP) programs.
Health Resources
and Services Administration (HRSA): helps provide health
resources for medically underserved populations. HRSA supports
a nationwide network of 643 community and migrant health centers,
and 144 primary care programs for the homeless and residents
of public housing, serving 8.1 million Americans each year. HRSA
also works to build the health care workforce and maintains the
National Health Service Corps, oversees the nation's organ transplantation
system, works to decrease infant mortality and improve child
health and provides services to people with AIDS through the
Ryan White CARE Act programs.
Indian Health
Service (IHS): supports a network of 37 hospitals, 60 health
centers, 3 school health centers, 46 health stations and 34 urban
Indian health centers to provide services to nearly 1.5 million
American Indians and Alaska Natives of 557 federally recognized
tribes.
Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA):
works to improve the quality and availability of substance abuse
prevention, addiction treatment and mental health services.
Health Initiatives & Health Information
Healthy People 2010: National health promotion
and disease prevention initiative to improve the health of all
Americans, eliminate disparities in health, and improve years
and quality of healthy life.
Healthfinder: Gateway
consumer health and human services information website.
Professional Organizations
American College
of Preventive Medicine: National society for physicians committed
to disease prevention and health promotion.
American Public
Health Association: The oldest and largest organization of
public health professionals in the world dedicated to influencing
policies and setting priorities in public health.
Association
of Clinicians for the Underserved: Promotes access to and
the delivery of quality health care to medically underserved
populations by enhancing the development and support of health
care clinicians serving these populations.
Association
of Schools of Public Health: National organization representing
the deans, faculty, and students of the US accredited schools
of public health.
Association
of Teachers of Preventive Medicine: National professional
association dedicated to advancing individual and community health
promotion and disease prevention in the education of physicians
and other health professionals.
Doctors
of the World
National
Rural Health Association: National membership organization
dedicated to the improvement of health care for rural Americans
and to provide leadership on rural issues through advocacy, communications,
education and research.
Working with Homeless People
National Health
Care for the Homeless Council, Inc.and the HCH Clinicians' Network:
a national association of clinicians dedicated to combating and
preventing homelessness and to improving the health and quality
of life of homeless people. Student membership is $15/year.
National Coalition for the Homeless:
a national advocacy network of homeless persons, activists, service
providers and others committed to ending homelessness. This web
site provides extensive information on working with homeless
people.
News Services
The
Kaiser Family Foundation: Authors reports, issue papers,
charts and fact sheets, and conducts surveys on a variety of
health topics. You can choose between daily, weekly and customized
email alerts on everything from children's health to HIV/AIDS.
Families
USA Media Center: Produces reports on a variety of health topics
focusing on high-quality, affordable health and long-term care
for all Americans. They have three email alert listserves. One
on Medicaid and child health expansion, one on managed care and
one that receives all e-mail alerts.
CDC Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report: Contains data on specific diseases
as reported by state and territorial health departments and reports
on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural
or human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries,
and intentional and unintentional injuries. Also includes reports
on topics of international interest and notices of events of
interest to the public health community.
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