This document discusses a study that developed a new funding methodology to address health equity and resilience for communities relying on private well water in Rhode Island. Approximately 100,000 rural residents obtain drinking water from private wells, many located near known hazards. The new methodology takes a health equity framework, accounting for volume, risk factors, and social determinants of health to distribute funding across four tiers. Data on factors like population, land area, contamination risks, poverty rates, and more were analyzed to assign towns to tiers and funding amounts ranging from $6,000 to $250 per year. The goal is to build resilience and health security in vulnerable well water communities through place-based preparedness and social support.
Human transformation of freshwater ecosystems is rapidly exceeding capacity required to sustain the conditions we need to survive and thrive. Water crises are already impacting people around the globe—from river basins in California and China, to the cities of São Palo and Bangkok. Under current population and growth trends, the 2030 Water Resources Group predicts global water demand will exceed available supply by 40 percent by 2030.
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
Matching ecohealth and One Health attributes for emerging infectious diseases...ILRI
Poster by Theresa Burns, David Stephen, Manish Kakkar, Purvi Mehta-Bhatt, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Durgatt Joshi, Jennifer Dawson and Craig Stephen presented at the 5th biennial conference of the International Association for Ecology and Health (EcoHealth 2014), Montreal, Canada, 11−15 August 2014.
Human transformation of freshwater ecosystems is rapidly exceeding capacity required to sustain the conditions we need to survive and thrive. Water crises are already impacting people around the globe—from river basins in California and China, to the cities of São Palo and Bangkok. Under current population and growth trends, the 2030 Water Resources Group predicts global water demand will exceed available supply by 40 percent by 2030.
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
Matching ecohealth and One Health attributes for emerging infectious diseases...ILRI
Poster by Theresa Burns, David Stephen, Manish Kakkar, Purvi Mehta-Bhatt, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Durgatt Joshi, Jennifer Dawson and Craig Stephen presented at the 5th biennial conference of the International Association for Ecology and Health (EcoHealth 2014), Montreal, Canada, 11−15 August 2014.
Rapid degradation of peri-urban ecosystems is resulting in a loss of associated ecosystem services. Water provision, storm-and waste-water regulation, along with protection from natural disasters and erosion, are the impacted services that most acutely affect poor or vulnerable populations. The poor may be disproportionately impacted by loss of ecosystem services due to lack of political power around land use decision making and limited alternatives for livelihoods, housing, or basic services. Vulnerability extends to urban populations that depend on the ecosystem services provided by or flowing through peri-urban areas. Often, the loss of ecosystems is irreversible and the replacement of associated services is costly, if even possible.
Gateway community resident perceptions of tourism development: Incorporating ...ibrahimzubairu2003
Gateway community resident perceptions of tourism development: Incorporating Importance Performance Analysis into a Limit of Acceptable Change framework
BY ( ERIC FRAUMAN AND SARAH BANKS).
Gateway community resident perceptions of tourism development: Incorporating ...ibrahimzubairu2003
Gateway community resident perceptions of tourism development: Incorporating Importance Performance Analysis into a Limit of Acceptable Change framework
BY ( ERIC FRAUMAN AND SARAH BANKS).
Presentation by Alexa Jay (IRI) at the Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change event on 19 March 2015 in Paris.
More about the event: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/closing-gender-gap
Ifeoma Quinette Anugwa
SEMINAR
Developing Resilience to Climate Change and Achieving Food Security in West Africa: Follow up Action from the UN Food Systems Summit
Co-Organized by West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) and IFPRI
SEP 30, 2021 - 09:00 AM TO 10:30 AM EDT
Presentatkon at the Pre-confernece meeting of "Gender Equity for a Water-Secure Future" sponsored by the Women for Water Partnership at the World Water Forum, April 10, 2015. Presentation focuses on the changing context of gender and agriculture water management
Examining a Network of Food Resources to Address Food InsecurityESD UNU-IAS
Examining a Network of Food Resources to Address Food Insecurity
Anthony P. Setari, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Educational Research Methods, Coordinator of Ph.D. in Education, Dept. of Education Policy, Research, and Evaluation, Spadoni College
of Education, Coastal Carolina University
Michelle Dzurenda, Graduate Coordinator, RCE Georgetown and Ph.D. Candidate, Educational Leadership
RCE Georgetown
10th Americas RCE Regional Meeting
5-7 October, 2021
Water Governance in a Humanitarian Context, Action Contre la Faim (ACF)OECDregions
Water Governance in a Humanitarian Context, Action Contre la Faim (ACF)
http://www.oecd.org/cfe/regional-policy/11th-meeting-of-the-oecd-water-governance-initiative.htm
The rights and access of woman to water resources are still overlooked. Mostly, woman neither invited nor considered for water resources project planning and management. However, woman are deprived more due to scarce water and lower quality. It increases their workload and get less time for paid employment, and attending school. Therefore, IWRM is considered one of the cornerstones which reflects the necessity of integrating gender in water resources management. Under IWRM principles, woman plays a central part in the provision, management and safeguarding of water which results in the sustainable development, allocation and monitoring of water resources.
Johan Swinnen, Rob Vos, John McDermott, and Laura Zseleczky
GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT
VIRTUAL LAUNCH EVENT - 2020 Global Food Policy Report: Building Inclusive Food Systems
APR 7, 2020 - 12:15 PM TO 01:15 PM EDT
Dr. Aaron Wernham, RI Lt.Gov Elizabeth Roberts and Brown University's Terrie Fox Wetle discuss Health Impact Assessments in the Friday plenary session at EDRA44Providence.
Rapid degradation of peri-urban ecosystems is resulting in a loss of associated ecosystem services. Water provision, storm-and waste-water regulation, along with protection from natural disasters and erosion, are the impacted services that most acutely affect poor or vulnerable populations. The poor may be disproportionately impacted by loss of ecosystem services due to lack of political power around land use decision making and limited alternatives for livelihoods, housing, or basic services. Vulnerability extends to urban populations that depend on the ecosystem services provided by or flowing through peri-urban areas. Often, the loss of ecosystems is irreversible and the replacement of associated services is costly, if even possible.
Gateway community resident perceptions of tourism development: Incorporating ...ibrahimzubairu2003
Gateway community resident perceptions of tourism development: Incorporating Importance Performance Analysis into a Limit of Acceptable Change framework
BY ( ERIC FRAUMAN AND SARAH BANKS).
Gateway community resident perceptions of tourism development: Incorporating ...ibrahimzubairu2003
Gateway community resident perceptions of tourism development: Incorporating Importance Performance Analysis into a Limit of Acceptable Change framework
BY ( ERIC FRAUMAN AND SARAH BANKS).
Presentation by Alexa Jay (IRI) at the Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change event on 19 March 2015 in Paris.
More about the event: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/closing-gender-gap
Ifeoma Quinette Anugwa
SEMINAR
Developing Resilience to Climate Change and Achieving Food Security in West Africa: Follow up Action from the UN Food Systems Summit
Co-Organized by West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) and IFPRI
SEP 30, 2021 - 09:00 AM TO 10:30 AM EDT
Presentatkon at the Pre-confernece meeting of "Gender Equity for a Water-Secure Future" sponsored by the Women for Water Partnership at the World Water Forum, April 10, 2015. Presentation focuses on the changing context of gender and agriculture water management
Examining a Network of Food Resources to Address Food InsecurityESD UNU-IAS
Examining a Network of Food Resources to Address Food Insecurity
Anthony P. Setari, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Educational Research Methods, Coordinator of Ph.D. in Education, Dept. of Education Policy, Research, and Evaluation, Spadoni College
of Education, Coastal Carolina University
Michelle Dzurenda, Graduate Coordinator, RCE Georgetown and Ph.D. Candidate, Educational Leadership
RCE Georgetown
10th Americas RCE Regional Meeting
5-7 October, 2021
Water Governance in a Humanitarian Context, Action Contre la Faim (ACF)OECDregions
Water Governance in a Humanitarian Context, Action Contre la Faim (ACF)
http://www.oecd.org/cfe/regional-policy/11th-meeting-of-the-oecd-water-governance-initiative.htm
The rights and access of woman to water resources are still overlooked. Mostly, woman neither invited nor considered for water resources project planning and management. However, woman are deprived more due to scarce water and lower quality. It increases their workload and get less time for paid employment, and attending school. Therefore, IWRM is considered one of the cornerstones which reflects the necessity of integrating gender in water resources management. Under IWRM principles, woman plays a central part in the provision, management and safeguarding of water which results in the sustainable development, allocation and monitoring of water resources.
Johan Swinnen, Rob Vos, John McDermott, and Laura Zseleczky
GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT
VIRTUAL LAUNCH EVENT - 2020 Global Food Policy Report: Building Inclusive Food Systems
APR 7, 2020 - 12:15 PM TO 01:15 PM EDT
Dr. Aaron Wernham, RI Lt.Gov Elizabeth Roberts and Brown University's Terrie Fox Wetle discuss Health Impact Assessments in the Friday plenary session at EDRA44Providence.
This session is the first in a two-part program series about healthy communities planning in Orange County. In Part 1, you will learn about the nexus between public health and planning, and ways in which multi-sector efforts in Orange County can support the development of healthy communities. The presentation will also include a discussion of existing partnerships between cities and the county, and current national, state and local initiatives, concluding with a case study on a healthy community initiative that is currently being undertaken in the City of San Clemente.
Bobby Milstein, PhD, MPH, director of the ReThink Health and visiting scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management, gave the October 9 Grand Rounds on the Future of Public Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Milstein's talk, "Beyond Reform and Rebound: Frontiers for Rethinking and Redirecting Health System Performance," was part of this year's Grand Rounds series focusing on the decline in the health status of the U.S. population compared to peer nations, as well as the opportunities for public health leadership that are needed to close this gap. While at the Mailman School, Dr. Milstein also met with a group of doctoral students and Prof. Ronald Bayer to discuss approaches to effectively improve health systems in the United States.
Visit the events page to find out more, http://www.mailman.columbia.edu/events/grand-rounds.
This file talks about an area of Community Medicine which is Environmental health. It focuses on community health status diagnosis. It Applies the 7 parameters that help in giving a proper community diagnosis.
In Spring 2013, we are on the precipice of dramatic, disruptive change in the health field that offers an unprecedented opportunity and challenge to transform health care and population health.
We know that traditional public health approaches along with more and better health care are not enough to improve health outcomes, equity, and cost. We must also:
- implement sustainable, fundamental "upstream" changes that address the root causes of disease and disability; and
- transform the way we deliver health care to ensure access to quality, affordable health care for all.
Enjoy this Bright Spot presentation with David Law of Joy-Southfield Community Development Corporation, which was presented at the 2013 Annual Leadership Conference, co-sponsored by the Center for Health Leadership (CHL) and the California Pacific Public Health Training Center (CALPACT) at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health.
To learn more about this event, please visit:
http://calpact.org/index.php/en/events/leadership-conference
Learn more about CALPACT:
http://calpact.org/
Learn more about the CHL:
http://chl.berkeley.edu/
MEASURE Evaluation’s Health Information System Strengthening ModelMEASURE Evaluation
This PowerPoint presentation provides an updated overview of MEASURE Evaluation’s Health Information System Strengthening Model, or the HISS Model. The slides describe the purpose of the model and each of the model’s areas and sub-areas.
City of Cambridge Climate Change Preparedness & Resilience Planning - A Model...JSI
APHA Presentation - Best Practices of Policy Initiatives at the Local & Community Level to Address Climate Impacts.
A collaborative project with the City of Cambridge, JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. and Kleinfelder, Inc.
Already exacerbating conditions such as asthma and heat-related mortality, climate change is a growing threat to public health that each community must confront. The City of Cambridge, MA is among the first in the nation to comprehensively plan and prepare strategic public health responses, with a focus on equity to avert intensifying health disparities. This session will review the approach taken by the City that can be replicated, starting with having conducted a thorough 2015 Cambridge Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment. The Assessment identified inequities in flood-related risks, heat exposures, and access to critical resources that varied by neighborhood and demographic risk factors. Cohorts with greater physical or mental health vulnerability were identified by several parameters. Socioeconomically disadvantaged groups, the elderly (particularly the elderly living alone) and people with who reported speak English less than very well experience impacts of heat and flooding that can be two to four times greater than people without these characteristics.
A literature review highlighted potential risk mitigation strategies. These were reviewed to identify existing capacity and gaps by a Stakeholder Workgroup comprised of health/public health institutions, medical suppliers, emergency responders, utility representatives, and those representing or serving vulnerable populations including elder service agencies, low-income housing organizations, and environmental justice advocates. Prioritized actions were incorporated into a Climate Change Preparedness and Resiliency Plan. They include: 1) Addressing transportation/accessibility disruptions. 2) Protecting critical healthcare capacity and access, maintaining access to essential medications. 3) Limiting the consequences of utility service failures during extreme weather-related events such as extreme heat, extreme cold, and/or flooding from storm surges and/or intense precipitation events. 4) Reducing long-term flooding and heat islands risks; and protecting indoor environments (especially basement apartments and senior housing). Employing a social/ecological framework, of central importance is supporting resident leadership to build social cohesion and address social determinants for individual, family, and neighborhood preparedness, using participation and other process indicators to monitor and evaluate engagement and readiness over time. We will discuss progress on resident engagement and the cross-sectoral collaborative efforts that have been launched as a result.
Health Impact Assessment: Healthier Places, Empowered PeoplePractical Playbook
The Practical Playbook
National Meeting 2016
www.practicalplaybook.org
Bringing Public Health and Primary Care Together: The Practical Playbook National Meeting was at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda, MD, May 22 - 24, 2016. The meeting was a milestone event towards advancing robust collaborations that improve population health. Key stakeholders from across sectors – representing professional associations, community organizations, government agencies and academic institutions – and across the country came together at the National Meeting to help catalyze a national movement, accelerate collaborations by fostering skill development, and connect with like-minded individuals and organizations to facilitate the exchange of ideas to drive population health improvement.
The National Meeting was also a significant source of tools and resources to advance collaboration. These tools and resources are available below and include:
Session presentations and materials
Poster session content
Photos from the National Meeting
The conversation started at the National Meeting is continuing in a LinkedIn Group "Working Together for Population Health" and Twitter. Use #PPBMeeting to provide feedback on the National Meeting.
The Practical Playbook was developed by the de Beaumont Foundation, the Duke University School of Medicine Department of Community and Family Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA).
Community Engagement Approaches for Active Transportation and Equity
Abstract: This workshop will include lessons learned from local initiatives of Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities and the Active Living Minnesota campaign, with a focus on how to create the partnerships necessary to foster more equitable active transportation solutions.
Presenters:
Presenter: Fay Gibson Active Living By Design
Co-Presenter: Jill Chamberlain Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
Co-Presenter: Naomi Doerner Bike Easy
Co-Presenter: Rosa Soto California Center for Public Health Advocacy
1. Linking Social and Environmental Determinants to Health:
A Look at Well-Water Consumers’ Resilience and Health Equity
Jenna Maloney, James Rajotte, Michelle Wilson, Peter DiPippo, Alyson McCann (URI)
PROBLEM
Historical Background
• Private wells are not regulated under the Safe Water
Drinking Act and testing is voluntary.
• Regular well testing is insufficient, typically only
performed with real-estate transactions.
Rhode Island Context
• Nearly 100,000 rural residents obtain
drinking water from wells.
• Approximately 63,289 wells, many
located near known hazards.
Growing Concerns
• Poor health outcomes, lack of contaminant
mitigation, and undeveloped rapid sampling systems
impede building health resilience within well-water
communities.
OPPORTUNITY
Grant Announcement
• Funding opportunity issued by Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) to interested states.
• Joint application for emergency preparedness
and drinking water programs.
Health Equity Framework
• Health equity centers on addressing
social determinants of health.
• Addressing the environment,
ecosystems, and implications on
health are then added.
• Place-based health promotion and
preparedness activities align to drive
resilience and ensure health security.
• Build social capital, foster social cohesion, and
reduce a communities’ vulnerability to hazards
before, during, and after emergencies.
“Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival.
The goal of resilience is to thrive.” – Jamais Cascio
RESULTS
• A total of four tiers were developed using
this revised formula.
• Funding amounts range from $6,000 (Tier 1),
$4,000 (Tier 2), $2,000 (Tier 3), and $250
(Tier 4) per year.
• General significant and trending between and
across tiers were observed.
MOVING FORWARD
Evaluation Considerations
• Evaluate grant implementation
using other models to determine
possible correlations.
Applying the Model
• Explore application of funding alternative to
other cross-cutting grant opportunities for
which equity and risk should be considered.
• Consider using framework and funding formula
(as applicable) for current issues such as the
Burrillville Natural Gas Pipeline and Port of
Providence Expansion Project .
References
• CDC. (2015). “Environmental health services support for public health
drinking water programs to reduce drinking water exposures.” Atlanta, GA.
• U.S. Census Bureau. (2013). “American factfinder.” Washington, D.C.
• RIDOH. (2015). “Safewell Collaboratives.” Providence, RI.
FUNDING METHODOLOGY
Traditional Approach
• Distribute funding equally between all municipalities or base
on a simple, volume-driven formula.
• Volume is often viewed as land area or net population.
Revised Approach
• Create a tiered funding formula that
accounts for volume, risk, and equity.
• Outlined factors contributing to each
criteria assigned to funding formula.
• Used inherent weighting among identified
factors – volume (4 factors), risk (3 factors),
and equity (3 factors).
Data Collection and Analysis
• Obtained data from Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
and U.S. Census Bureau (Rhode Island 2013-15).
• Force ranked each factor in order of prevalence from largest
to smallest footprint for each city/town.
• Calculated a summated rating average for all factors and
criteria and adjusted funding accordingly, assigning tiers to
natural breaks within the data itself.
July 2015
