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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Jas Nagra, MPH, CHES1, George W. Rutherford, MD1, Gail Bolan, MD2, Romni Neiman2, and Barry Handon, MD, MPH3. (1) California Chlamydia Action Coalition, University of California, San Francisco, 1947 Center Street, Suite 201, Berkeley, CA 94704, 510-540-2758, jnagra@dhs.ca.gov, (2) STD Control Branch, California Department of Health Services, 1947 Center St. #201, Berkeley, CA 94704, (3) Medi-Cal Managed Care Division, California Department of Health Services, 714 P Street, Room 650, Sacramento, CA 95814
Background: The California Chlamydia Action Coalition (CCAC) is a public-private partnership led by the California Department of Health Services’ Sexually Transmitted Disease Control Branch and Medi-Cal (Medicaid) Managed Care Division, the California HealthCare Foundation, and the University of California, San Francisco. The Coalition is comprised of representatives from commercial and Medicaid managed care organizations, public health agencies, community-based organizations, professional organizations, clinical laboratories and universities. The goal of CCAC is to reduce the incidence of chlamydia infection in California by 75% by 2005. The Coalition takes action in three areas – science, policy, and awareness.
Content: The organizational structure and governance of the CCAC will be presented. Presenters will then highlight lessons learned by the CCAC: 1) enlisting participation of key groups integral to the implementation effort including commercial health plans; 2) establishing priorities and developing an implementation plan; 3) successes and challenges of specific activities undertaken by CCAC, including the development and distribution of a Chlamydia Care Quality Improvement Toolbox and the planning and development of a chlamydia data warehouse that will receive chlamydia test results from laboratories and provide data to managed care organizations for HEDIS reporting and prevalence monitoring and to public health agencies for disease reporting.
Implications for Programs/Policy: Comprehensive chlamydia prevention and control programs must mobilize stakeholders from both the public and private sectors and utilize multifaceted approaches that include providers, insurers, researchers, patients and policymakers.
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Keywords: Managed Care, Collaboration
Related Web page: www.ucsf.edu/castd
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.