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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
4312.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 4:30 PM

Abstract #109950

Working together to provide evidence-based healhy aging programs: Public health, aging and university communities

Lucinda L. Bryant, PhD, MSHA1, Mary Altpeter2, Ellen Schneider, MBA2, and Nancy Whitelaw, PhD3. (1) Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, Box C245, Denver, CO 80202, (303) 315-0634, lucinda.bryant@uchsc.edu, (2) UNC Institute on Aging, UNC at Chapel Hill, CB #1030, UNC-CH, 720 Airport Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1030, (3) Director, Health and Aging Services Research, National Council on the Aging, 409 3rd St., SW, Washington, DC 20024

Aging service providers and their public health counterparts face increasing demands from a growing population of older adults for a wide variety of health promotion programs and services. Challenges include the need to ensure beneficial outcomes and cost-effectiveness across population groups as well as individual customer satisfaction. Service providers often have not had experience with or training in the development and implementation of health promotion programs from evidence-based interventions that have been rigorously designed and evaluated. Partnerships among service providers, public health practitioners and the university research community can greatly expand and enhance program planning, implementation and evaluation efforts. We will present an overview of evidence-based health promotion and describe a collaborative process to develop and implement programs. Topics will include: an outline of steps necessary for implementation of an evidence-based program (from identifying a relevant health issue and at-risk population to evaluating the delivered program and establishing sustainability); the contributions partnerships can make in implementing evidence-based health promotion programs; and key resources that are available to facilitate collaborative efforts.

Learning Objectives:

  • At the conclusion of the session, participants will be able to

    Keywords: Aging, Evidence Based Practice

    Presenting author's disclosure statement:

    I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

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