RV 2015: Back to the Future: Considering Health (Again) in Project Developmen...Rail~Volution
Two centuries ago, the synergies between the development of cities and public health were evident -- even lifesaving: Better infrastructure prevented infectious diseases. Land use ordinances protected citizens from hazardous industrial exposures. During the 20th century, the disciplines drifted apart. Today health has, once again, become an extremely important element in building livable communities. How can you measure how your project impacts the health of a community? Health impact assessments (HIAs) are innovative tools. Learn how to incorporate an HIA into your existing decision-making processes, increase interdepartmental collaboration and strengthen community engagement initiatives. In addition, gain usable experience from two HIA case studies in Florida and Minnesota: a transit alternatives analysis and a station area plan.
Moderator: Thomas Waldron, Transit Market Sector Director, HDR, New York, New York
Lyssa Leitner, Transportation Planner, Washington County, Stillwater, Minnesota
Gabriella Arismendi, Transportation Planner, MetroPlan, Orlando, Florida
Michael Musso, Senior Project Manager and Risk Assessor, HDR, Mahwah, New Jersey
RV 2015: Integrating Health, Livable Communities and Transit: A How-To Discus...Rail~Volution
Where do wellness issues fit in the transit conversation? What is the link between how we build our cities and transportation networks, and the physical, social, mental and economic wellness of our communities? Participate in the discussion with health funders, community development professionals, health equity advocates and urban planners. Hear how they've leveraged new funding sources for critical investments. What are the politics, processes and mechanics of integrating health, wellness and health equity issues into the planning and design of livable communities? Learn new techniques and perspectives from health foundations, public policy advocates and urban designers and cities in the US (Phoenix, Dallas, Houston) and Canada.
Moderator: Elizabeth Sobel Blum, Senior Community Development Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Texas
Antonio Gomez-Palacio, Principal, DIALOG, Toronto, Ontario
C.J. Hager, Director, Healthy Community Policies, St. Luke's Health Initiatives, Phoenix, Arizona
Niiobli Armah, IV, Managing Director, WE-COLLAB, Houston, Texas
USAID Community Capacity for Health Program (Mahefa Miaraka)JSI
How Can Population, Health, and Environment Projects Learn from Family Planning High Impact Practices?
JSI’s Yvette Ribaira shares best practices from Madagascar in a new webinar.
On February 6th, JSI population, health, and environment (PHE) expert Dr. Yvette Ribaira shared insights from her experience in Madagascar during a webinar examining the link between PHE programs and high-impact practices (HIPs) drawn from family planning activities.
Watch the webinar here: https://bit.ly/2SKbuvG
Dr. Ribaira, a medical doctor, has spent her career in public health strengthening the Madagascar’s health system, with a specific focus on community health in the last decade. She currently leads the JSI’s USAID Community Capacity for Health Program in Madagascar, locally known as Mahefa Miaraka, which implements the Population Health and Environment (PHE) Activity, funded by Advancing Partners and Communities.
The webinar was hosted by the PACE (https://thepaceproject.org/) (Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health) project and included presenters from the Population Reference Bureau and USAID.
Read more about JSI’s work on population, health, and environment, as well as family planning, in Madagascar and around the world at www.jsi.com
As countries continue to invest and make strides toward achieving the SDGs and universal health coverage, strong routine health information systems (RHIS) are fundamental to the effort. Well-functioning RHIS provide a wealth of data on a country’s health system, including service delivery, availability of a trained workforce, and reach of interventions, that can be harnessed to identify gaps and support evidence-based decision making. Yet, while many low-to-middle income (LMIC) countries have established a national RHIS structure, there are existing challenges related to the availability, analysis, and use of the data that have yet to be addressed.
Preparing for future shocks: Building resilient health systemsHFG Project
Presentation at USAID's Global Health Mini-University on Friday, March 4, 2016.
Preparing for Future Shocks: Building Resilient Health Systems
Kate Greene (HFG), Bob Emrey (USAID/GH/OHS), Jodi Charles (USAID/GH/OHS), Temitayo Ifafore, (USAID/GH/OHS)
After the recent Ebola outbreak, global health experts have turned to resilience frameworks used by other fields such as agriculture and engineering to understand how to build health systems that can withstand shocks, including infectious disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and political conflict. Speakers will first briefly outline each of the five key elements of the Resilience Framework, adapted from the Rockefeller Foundation and presented in a Lancet article in 2015, that can be applied to health systems. Participants will then work in small groups to discuss which health systems interventions should be pursued in response to a one-page description of an unnamed country. Speakers will then reveal what real-world interventions they designed for the country example and answer questions.
RV 2015: Back to the Future: Considering Health (Again) in Project Developmen...Rail~Volution
Two centuries ago, the synergies between the development of cities and public health were evident -- even lifesaving: Better infrastructure prevented infectious diseases. Land use ordinances protected citizens from hazardous industrial exposures. During the 20th century, the disciplines drifted apart. Today health has, once again, become an extremely important element in building livable communities. How can you measure how your project impacts the health of a community? Health impact assessments (HIAs) are innovative tools. Learn how to incorporate an HIA into your existing decision-making processes, increase interdepartmental collaboration and strengthen community engagement initiatives. In addition, gain usable experience from two HIA case studies in Florida and Minnesota: a transit alternatives analysis and a station area plan.
Moderator: Thomas Waldron, Transit Market Sector Director, HDR, New York, New York
Lyssa Leitner, Transportation Planner, Washington County, Stillwater, Minnesota
Gabriella Arismendi, Transportation Planner, MetroPlan, Orlando, Florida
Michael Musso, Senior Project Manager and Risk Assessor, HDR, Mahwah, New Jersey
RV 2015: Integrating Health, Livable Communities and Transit: A How-To Discus...Rail~Volution
Where do wellness issues fit in the transit conversation? What is the link between how we build our cities and transportation networks, and the physical, social, mental and economic wellness of our communities? Participate in the discussion with health funders, community development professionals, health equity advocates and urban planners. Hear how they've leveraged new funding sources for critical investments. What are the politics, processes and mechanics of integrating health, wellness and health equity issues into the planning and design of livable communities? Learn new techniques and perspectives from health foundations, public policy advocates and urban designers and cities in the US (Phoenix, Dallas, Houston) and Canada.
Moderator: Elizabeth Sobel Blum, Senior Community Development Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Texas
Antonio Gomez-Palacio, Principal, DIALOG, Toronto, Ontario
C.J. Hager, Director, Healthy Community Policies, St. Luke's Health Initiatives, Phoenix, Arizona
Niiobli Armah, IV, Managing Director, WE-COLLAB, Houston, Texas
USAID Community Capacity for Health Program (Mahefa Miaraka)JSI
How Can Population, Health, and Environment Projects Learn from Family Planning High Impact Practices?
JSI’s Yvette Ribaira shares best practices from Madagascar in a new webinar.
On February 6th, JSI population, health, and environment (PHE) expert Dr. Yvette Ribaira shared insights from her experience in Madagascar during a webinar examining the link between PHE programs and high-impact practices (HIPs) drawn from family planning activities.
Watch the webinar here: https://bit.ly/2SKbuvG
Dr. Ribaira, a medical doctor, has spent her career in public health strengthening the Madagascar’s health system, with a specific focus on community health in the last decade. She currently leads the JSI’s USAID Community Capacity for Health Program in Madagascar, locally known as Mahefa Miaraka, which implements the Population Health and Environment (PHE) Activity, funded by Advancing Partners and Communities.
The webinar was hosted by the PACE (https://thepaceproject.org/) (Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health) project and included presenters from the Population Reference Bureau and USAID.
Read more about JSI’s work on population, health, and environment, as well as family planning, in Madagascar and around the world at www.jsi.com
As countries continue to invest and make strides toward achieving the SDGs and universal health coverage, strong routine health information systems (RHIS) are fundamental to the effort. Well-functioning RHIS provide a wealth of data on a country’s health system, including service delivery, availability of a trained workforce, and reach of interventions, that can be harnessed to identify gaps and support evidence-based decision making. Yet, while many low-to-middle income (LMIC) countries have established a national RHIS structure, there are existing challenges related to the availability, analysis, and use of the data that have yet to be addressed.
Preparing for future shocks: Building resilient health systemsHFG Project
Presentation at USAID's Global Health Mini-University on Friday, March 4, 2016.
Preparing for Future Shocks: Building Resilient Health Systems
Kate Greene (HFG), Bob Emrey (USAID/GH/OHS), Jodi Charles (USAID/GH/OHS), Temitayo Ifafore, (USAID/GH/OHS)
After the recent Ebola outbreak, global health experts have turned to resilience frameworks used by other fields such as agriculture and engineering to understand how to build health systems that can withstand shocks, including infectious disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and political conflict. Speakers will first briefly outline each of the five key elements of the Resilience Framework, adapted from the Rockefeller Foundation and presented in a Lancet article in 2015, that can be applied to health systems. Participants will then work in small groups to discuss which health systems interventions should be pursued in response to a one-page description of an unnamed country. Speakers will then reveal what real-world interventions they designed for the country example and answer questions.
PPT Setting the Stage for the Regional Health Care Safety Net in Northeastern Illinois. Presented at the Safety Net Summit, June 23, 2009, hosted by Health & Medicine Policy Research Group (HMPRG) and the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
HMPRG Safety Net Initiative History- Lon BerkeleyHealthwork
PPT Setting the Stage for the Regional Health Care Safety Net in Northeastern Illinois. Presented at the Safety Net Summit, June 23, 2009, hosted by Health & Medicine Policy Research Group (HMPRG) and the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Running Head HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT1HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMEN.docxwlynn1
Running Head: HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT 1
HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT 7
Health Needs Assessment
Student’s Name:
Course Number:
Course Title:
Professor’s Name:
Date:
Health Needs Assessment
Health assessment can be defined as a care program which involves the identification of special needs of person or a group of people and the way those needs are addressed by health facilities or the entire health system. Health assessment also involves the evaluation of the health status of an individual(s) through the performance of a physical examination after recording their health history. Health assessments are different from diagnostic tests because the latter is carried out when a person is already exhibiting the signs and/or symptoms of a particular disease (Turnock, 2012).
Measure of Public Health
Measures used in assessing health are different and the first measure of public health is mortality. Mortality is the rate of deaths occurring in a particular population. It has been very common for the numbers and rates of death to be used in measuring public health. Globally, some diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and hypertension among others have been observed to be the leading causes of death. In order for policies to be formulated mortalities which are specific on particular age groups are considered as they provide more awareness on health status of that age group. The same way, when mortality data is stratified on the basis of ethnicity or race, the health disparities available are quantified (Pennel, McLeroy, Burdine, Matarrita-Cascante & Wang, 2016).
Morbidity is the second measure that is used to measure public health. It can literally be said to mean the rate of incidence of a disease or illness in a specified group of individuals or a population. This rate of morbidity can be estimated through use of the rates of hospitalizations recorded among a group or a population. This kind of measure is easy and advantageous in that it is not difficult to get access to the rates of hospitalizations. Although they are of very good use when carrying out certain analyses, they can be biased indicators of the health status (Turnock, 2012). For example, in cases where there are increasing rates of outpatient treatment when handling conditions which require hospitalization can adversely and substantially affect the usefulness of the information or data recorded for assessing health status.
Measuring disability is another dimension of morbidity that looks into non-fatal health complications. Certain problems such as pain in joints and bones often a result of arthritis can be said to be main contributors of disability. Other chronic conditions such as lung problems, heart disease, stroke, diabetes etcetera are also known to be causers of disability. High rates of disability could be taken to mean that the general health status of the population is at risk diseases (Giger, 2016). Apart from the mentioned three, the other m.
Wendy Davis: Leveraging Public Health Capacity to Improve Health System Effic...NASHP HealthPolicy
Many provisions of the ACA hold promise for public health agencies. The reorganization of the healthcare system in the wake of health reform also poses challenges for the public health system. This session will address how public health agency roles may change, opportunities to use public health agencies to lower health costs and improve health outcomes, and the integration of categorical funding streams to build a comprehensive public health system in a post-health reform world.
Towards precision and accuracy digital public health: informed decision-makin...Maged N. Kamel Boulos
Cite as: Kamel Boulos MN. Towards precision and accuracy digital public health: informed decision-making using novel community-level physical activity indicators from app data aggregates of user populations. Invited talk at the 2019 International Geoinformatics Week - Annual meeting of Geoinformatics in Sustainable Ecosystem and Society (GSES), Zhujiang Hotel, Guangzhou, China, 22-25 November 2019 URLs: http://gig.geoweek2019.org/ and http://gig.geoweek2019.org/main/news/8.html
Abstract: Big data aggregates from popular mobile physical activity (PA) tracking gadgets and the apps/platforms they are paired to can provide unique population insights that could help public health authorities devise superior PA promotion interventions, better target them, and dynamically monitor their effect over time, making adjustments to the interventions as necessary.
PPT Setting the Stage for the Regional Health Care Safety Net in Northeastern Illinois. Presented at the Safety Net Summit, June 23, 2009, hosted by Health & Medicine Policy Research Group (HMPRG) and the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
HMPRG Safety Net Initiative History- Lon BerkeleyHealthwork
PPT Setting the Stage for the Regional Health Care Safety Net in Northeastern Illinois. Presented at the Safety Net Summit, June 23, 2009, hosted by Health & Medicine Policy Research Group (HMPRG) and the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Running Head HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT1HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMEN.docxwlynn1
Running Head: HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT 1
HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT 7
Health Needs Assessment
Student’s Name:
Course Number:
Course Title:
Professor’s Name:
Date:
Health Needs Assessment
Health assessment can be defined as a care program which involves the identification of special needs of person or a group of people and the way those needs are addressed by health facilities or the entire health system. Health assessment also involves the evaluation of the health status of an individual(s) through the performance of a physical examination after recording their health history. Health assessments are different from diagnostic tests because the latter is carried out when a person is already exhibiting the signs and/or symptoms of a particular disease (Turnock, 2012).
Measure of Public Health
Measures used in assessing health are different and the first measure of public health is mortality. Mortality is the rate of deaths occurring in a particular population. It has been very common for the numbers and rates of death to be used in measuring public health. Globally, some diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and hypertension among others have been observed to be the leading causes of death. In order for policies to be formulated mortalities which are specific on particular age groups are considered as they provide more awareness on health status of that age group. The same way, when mortality data is stratified on the basis of ethnicity or race, the health disparities available are quantified (Pennel, McLeroy, Burdine, Matarrita-Cascante & Wang, 2016).
Morbidity is the second measure that is used to measure public health. It can literally be said to mean the rate of incidence of a disease or illness in a specified group of individuals or a population. This rate of morbidity can be estimated through use of the rates of hospitalizations recorded among a group or a population. This kind of measure is easy and advantageous in that it is not difficult to get access to the rates of hospitalizations. Although they are of very good use when carrying out certain analyses, they can be biased indicators of the health status (Turnock, 2012). For example, in cases where there are increasing rates of outpatient treatment when handling conditions which require hospitalization can adversely and substantially affect the usefulness of the information or data recorded for assessing health status.
Measuring disability is another dimension of morbidity that looks into non-fatal health complications. Certain problems such as pain in joints and bones often a result of arthritis can be said to be main contributors of disability. Other chronic conditions such as lung problems, heart disease, stroke, diabetes etcetera are also known to be causers of disability. High rates of disability could be taken to mean that the general health status of the population is at risk diseases (Giger, 2016). Apart from the mentioned three, the other m.
Wendy Davis: Leveraging Public Health Capacity to Improve Health System Effic...NASHP HealthPolicy
Many provisions of the ACA hold promise for public health agencies. The reorganization of the healthcare system in the wake of health reform also poses challenges for the public health system. This session will address how public health agency roles may change, opportunities to use public health agencies to lower health costs and improve health outcomes, and the integration of categorical funding streams to build a comprehensive public health system in a post-health reform world.
Towards precision and accuracy digital public health: informed decision-makin...Maged N. Kamel Boulos
Cite as: Kamel Boulos MN. Towards precision and accuracy digital public health: informed decision-making using novel community-level physical activity indicators from app data aggregates of user populations. Invited talk at the 2019 International Geoinformatics Week - Annual meeting of Geoinformatics in Sustainable Ecosystem and Society (GSES), Zhujiang Hotel, Guangzhou, China, 22-25 November 2019 URLs: http://gig.geoweek2019.org/ and http://gig.geoweek2019.org/main/news/8.html
Abstract: Big data aggregates from popular mobile physical activity (PA) tracking gadgets and the apps/platforms they are paired to can provide unique population insights that could help public health authorities devise superior PA promotion interventions, better target them, and dynamically monitor their effect over time, making adjustments to the interventions as necessary.
Innovations in Integrating Quality of Life Elements - 2020
Aldine EST Poster_AN
1. East Aldine Pedestrian & Bicycle
Environmental Data Scan, 2015
Narayan A,1 Caballero V,2 McNally K,2 Schwaller E,2 Yao M,1 Cummings P2
1Rice University; 2Built Environment & Health Impact Assessment Unit, Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services
Numerous studies link walking to
decreased risk of cardiovascular disease
and chronic conditions.1,5 In addition,
improving pedestrian accessibility by
creating safe, walkable environments
positively influences social
capital/community cohesiveness,3 as
well as a host of other health factors
including pedestrian safety2 and physical
activity.6
The Built Environment & Health Impact
Assessment Unit (BE-HIA) examined
existing pedestrian and bicycle
infrastructure in the East Aldine
Management District to inform
development of the new proposed Town
Center plans. The data are part of a
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) that
will be used to inform decision-makers
in East Aldine to identify ways to
improve active transportation,
connectivity, and mobility.
METHODS
The Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services (HCPHES)
Environmental Scan Tool (EST) was adapted from the Pedestrian Environmental
Data Scan (PEDS).4 The tool included questions about pedestrian infrastructure
and street characteristics that required surveyors to enter GPS coordinates of
requested street elements. BE-HIA Unit organized pairs to conduct the scan
along 749 segments within a 1-mile radius of Keith-Weiss Park and the proposed
Town Center development, combined. The segments were numbered within
each Census block group using a complex, GIS-compass-specific method (i.e.,
north to south; west to east). These block groups were then assigned to teams.
Data were collected from 7/6/2015 to 7/23/2015 between the hours of 8:00 AM
to 1:00 PM. The Unit also devised algorithms to create a score corresponding to
both pedestrian accessibility (Total Score) and accessibility to all-abled
individuals (AAA Score). Surveys were digitally recorded in an online database
created by HCPHES.
PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY IMPACT
The built environment heavily
influences population and individual
health. Access to healthcare, healthy
food options, and opportunities to be
physically active are vital to chronic
disease prevention and control. BE-
HIA Unit focuses on taking a Health in
All Policies (HiAP) approach to inform
decision-makers at all levels (e.g.,
federal, regional, local), including
planning and transportation sectors to
improve health and health equity
through the development of healthy,
safe and active environments.
1Sallis, J. F., Saelens, B. E., Frank, L. D., Conway, T. L., Slymen, D. J., Cain, K. L., … Kerr,
J. (2009). Neighborhood built environment and income: Examining multiple health
outcomes. Social Science & Medicine, 68(7), 1285–1293. 2Retting, R. A., Ferguson, S. A.,
& McCartt, A. T. (2003). A Review of Evidence-Based Traffic Engineering Measures
Designed to Reduce Pedestrian–Motor Vehicle Crashes. American Journal of Public Health,
93(9), 1456–1463. 3Leyden, K. M. (2003). Social Capital and the Built Environment: The
Importance of Walkable Neighborhoods. American Journal of Public Health, 93(9), 1546–
1551.
4Clifton, K. J., Livi Smith, A. D., & Rodriguez, D. (2007). The development and testing of
an audit for the pedestrian environment. Landscape and Urban Planning, 80(1–2), 95–
110.
5 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Physical Activity and Health: A Report
of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, 1996.
6 Fenton, M. (2005). Battling America’s Epidemic of Physical Inactivity: Building More
Walkable, Livable Communities. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 37,
Supplement 2, S115–S120.
Special thanks to Michael Schaffer, Director
of Environmental Public Health for working
with PBT to develop the digital EST online
database. This project is partially supported
by the Episcopal Health Foundation and the
Health Impact Project - a joint collaborative
through Pew Charitable Trusts and Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
• Assisted in creation of the EST
• Drafted and edited EST protocol which
included specific instructions for each
question.
• Refined EST through pilot testing
• Conducted pre-data collection
procedures, including segment algorithm
assignment to teams
• Devised AAA Score
Data are still currently being collected.
Analysis of data will include
descriptive statistics, bivariate
analyses, GIS spatial analysis, and/or
statistical modeling. The final results
of the data analysis will be
incorporated into the HIA for East
Aldine District to address the potential
health consequences of the proposed
Town Center.
The front page of the EST contains all
survey questions