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 | A Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke
|  | MPHI History Project
Jay Glasser
|  | EMS and Local Preparedness
|  | Public Health Today and in the Future
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| | Title: Current Activities and Projects
To be extended; specifics details are available
Chronic Diseases
Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
Following the CDC National Forum Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.
Proposed interdisciplinary collaborative trial on primary and secondary prevention of Heart Disease and Stroke on a community level
Seminar(s) for Possible web topic development Seminars presented in China on Heart Disease and Stroke, primary and secondary prevention, relation to aging and risk
Infectious Diseases
HIV AIDS, Community Education, discussed in China, need for educating population, media as well as health providers and educators (see also Health Informatics below.)
Health Informatics
A project was suggested (with the sources data available) on producing GIS mapping technology to HIV AIDS distribution. This project is of interest as it can be used for any disease or health effects mapping using extant software. Also relates directly to syndromic surveillance
Health Informatics in sensing and relational data base mapping has been suggested for the Health Disease and Stroke program. The software and procedures are generalizable.
Cross Cutting Community
Gerontology
Meeting the challenge of an aging population and rising expectations for quality of life. Discussed with China Gerontology Association, a comparative situation analysis of commonalities and differences between the China and USA local settings has been suggested.
EMS related to preparedness but also core functions
The community and public health approach to Emergency Services
Emphasizes both the commonalities but also the need to ‘customize” to local settings.
Why EMS is an essential daily community need, “its not just for disasters, natural or manmade”.
Local preparedness, public education program
Related to the above but generalized to “news you can use “(the community, family and individuals). Discussed with Tennessee PH Association and also with the National Red Cross, but this was over a year ago.
General MPHI Topics
Survey of Collaboration
Update on examples of Health Professions Cross Collaboration: an informal survey of states to describe on going opportunities as well as activities. The survey would explore barriers as well as opportunities.
It will be a “case study approach” using a web based response not a formal complete survey, thereby providing valid information but not a representation of all activities (and hence a lower response burden as well).
But it would also set the stage to show that with a considerable base, an MPHI organization can really build on existing collaboration and also help bridge gaps. There are many innovative approaches that have not been well publicized.
Leadership Development
There are nationally recognized leadership programs (UNC) as well as State specific Leadership Institutes.
The collective experience would be useful in China, where this was identified as one of the top priorities needed for health delivery improvement.
Education
History Project and Open Learning Resource
There is considerable interest in the historic basis of current health challenges and successes. There is commensurate lack of knowledge among health professionals, let alone families, students, and communities.
In traveling as President of the American Public Health Association, I began collecting state and local histories of medical societies, public health associations, as well as been inspired by the persons who would and are participating.
There are two basic audiences for preserving lessons learned from histories around current themes and challenges for emerging health themes.
• Health professions and health professional education. For example see http://www.iime.org/gmer.htm and Task Forces such as Richard Riegelmann et al
• General knowledge Undergraduate and K-12 education.
We have explored and discussed this project with several prominent public health historians, health museum, and undergraduate education experts.
There are several committees working on health professional reform and updating curricula agendas, and we have met with them as well.
The project would be an open architecture project that would have basic modules. We would ask local (state, county city) to contribute information on their own experiences. Thus again “the best of both worlds, a general authoritative but thought provoking structure with the local experience that transport the user to his or her community.
Public Health Today and in The Future
PH and Community Health 20/20 what will the community be like in the year 2020, what do we “foresee.”
The 5 Generation experience, preparing for the future, with the realities of emerging and reemerging diseases, yet the unprecedented increase in longevity in the US and throughout the world. Permits an opportunity to see challenges ahead, and setting an agenda for example see: www.genpolicy.com
The forecast of future public health can have expanded uses, for example, we have discussed the relationship of Sustainability in developed and developing countries with interested agencies and organizations that have previously not included health as a prominent consideration in future scenarios of sustainable communities.
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