PROCESS
Investigate a Focus Area
Health
Promotion/Disease Prevention
- What are
prevention services and how are they delivered in the U.S. healthcare
system?
- Who finances
prevention services?
- How are preventive
services assessed for effectiveness, and how are they recommended
for widespread clinical use with the general population?
- What is "translation
research" and how do clinicians become aware of new prevention
guidelines? (See "Putting Prevention into Practice"
program.)
- What is being
done to reduce the racial and ethnic disparities in preventable
deaths?
- What are
HEDIS measures, and why were they developed (from a policy perspective)?
Useful
Web Sites
DHHS Office of Health Promotion/Disease Prevention:
http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/
University
of North Dakota Rural Health Center:
http://www.med.und.nodak.edu/depts/rural/chptr/overview.html
National Committee on Quality Assurance: HEDIS
Program
http://www.ncqa.org/Programs/HEDIS/
Healthy People 2010:
http://www.healthypeople.gov/
Agency for Health Care Research and Quality: Putting
Prevention into Practice
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/ppipix.htm
Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services:
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/preventiveservices/
DHHS - Office of Minority Health:
http://www.omhrc.gov/
Select
Evaluation to review criteria by which
your presentation
will be judged.
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