4115.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM | ||||
Oral Session | ||||
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| OVERVIEW/RATIONALE: Collaboration and community participation are becoming increasingly important in public health practice. The most common way for people and organizations in communities to collaborate is through project-specific, time-limited partnerships. The nine Turning Point communities participating in the Public Health Governance Workgroup are attempting to achieve a more fundamental transformation in their health systems by developing procedures and structures that make broad participation in basic public health activities "business as usual." This session will provide an overview and specific illustrations of the approaches these communities are using to involve a broad array of people and organizations in three basic public health activities: defining and assessing community health, prioritizing health issues, and taking collective action to address health priorities. The presentations will highlight issues the communities are addressing to tailor procedures and structures to their local environments and to sustain broad participation in these public health activities over time. The session will conclude with a discussion of the potential opportunities, challenges, and dangers – for both public health professionals and community residents and organizations – of putting sustained broad-based public health collaboration into practice. | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | ||||
| Roz D. Lasker, MD | ||||
| Achieving and sustaining broad community participation in basic public health activities: Lessons learned in the Turning Point Public Health Governance Workgroup Roz D. Lasker, MD, Laura C. McKieran, DrPH, Susan Kim, MPH | ||||
| Report from the field: Practical strategies to support ongoing community participation in assessment, prioritization, and collective action Lynn F. Delevan, Richard D. Silverberg | ||||
| Opportunities, challenges, and dangers: Implications of broad-based public health collaboration for public health professionals and the community Quinton E. Baker, Alonzo Plough, PhD, MPH | ||||
| Discussion | ||||
| Sponsor: | Community-Based Public Health Caucus | |||
| Cosponsors: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Occupational Health and Safety; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | |||