Essential Public Health Services

Introduction

 

1)   Monitor health status to identify community health problems

 

Establishment and Assessment of a Hospital Emergency Room Syndromic Surveillance

System in Ocean County, New Jersey (2004)

Facilitation of Automated Electronic Transmission of Active Surveillance Data from

Emergency Rooms and Hospitals (2004)

Posting Food Inspection Reports on the Internet (2002)

 

2)   Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community 

 

3)   Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues

 

Building a Better Bicycling Workplace (2002)

Curriculum Development on Social Indicators of Health and the Role of Social Science in Public Health (2001)

Customer Education Plan (2000)

Develop a Booklet on Post Exposure Prophylaxis for Children Exposed to HIV

(Excluding Perinatal Exposure) (2001)

Developing an Emergency Health Communications Network for Special Populations in

Rhode Island (2004)

Healthy New Jersey Women - Resource Guide (2003)

Impact of a Client Centered Risk Reduction Plan to Reduce STD Incidence Within a Targeted Population (2003)

Maternal/Child Health Educational Program (2003)

Multi-Lingual Patient Health Education Resources on Tuberculosis (2001)

Public Health Week Proclamation - Governor State of New Jersey (2002)

Recognizing Restaurants Who Participate in the Farmer to Chef Project (2001)

Strong Bones for a Lifetime (Osteoporosis Web Site) (2002)

Tenant Safety (2003)

Visual Presentation of Public Health Data (2002)

 

4)   Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems

 

An Overview of Innovative Community-Based Public Health Interventions (1999)

Cooperative Actions in Health Grants (1999)

Guidelines for Developing Public/Private Partnerships: New Directions in Public Health

Partnerships with the Private Sector  (1998)

Improving Immunization and Lead Screening Rates in Northeastern New York (2001)

Minority Men’s Health Project of Niagara County (2004)

NEAT (Neighborhood Evaluation and Assessment Team) (2004)

 

5)   Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts

 

A Community-Based Organization Handbook: Information for Responding to Prevention

Programs Request for Proposals and Prevention Grants (2003)

Bio-Terrorism Contact Sheet: An Internet-Based Reference Guide to Assist Health

Departments in the Development of Bio-Terrorism Readiness Plans (2001)

Collaborating with Elected Officials (2003)

Communicating the Ten Essential Public Health Services (2000)

Developing a Strategy for an Office of Minority and Tribal Health within the Maine

Bureau of Health (2004)

Healthy People 2010 Initiative (1999)

Review of Healthy Lifestyles Within WIC (2004)

Smallpox Vaccine and HIV (2003)

 

6)   Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety

 

Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements in Rhode Island: Revising State

Policies and Developing Guidelines (2004)

Public Health Nursing Practice Standards (2001)

 

7)   Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable

 

Design of Membership Information Systems for National Association of Social Workers

            - New York State (2001)

 

8)   Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce

 

Administrative Tool for Project Leaders (2000)

An Orientation for the Division of Community and Family Health, Maine Bureau of

Health (2000)

Assuring a Competent Public Health Workforce in New Hampshire (2004)

Children with Disabilities and Public Health: A Model Syllabus for Educating Health and

Public Health Professionals on Public Policies, Service Delivery Systems, and

Family-Centered, Community-based Care for Children with Special Needs (2003)

Educating Providers about Genetic Testing in Newborns, Provider Resource Manual:

Maine Newborn Screening Program (2001)

Implementing Effective Internal Communication Strategies at Philadelphia Health

Management Corporation (2004)

Leadership Thought for the Day (2002)

Local Public Health Super Course (2000)

Pennsylvania Physician Education Survey (2003)

Procedural Justice: An Assessment of the Impact of Governmental Funding Decision

Making Process on a Community Based Organization in Harlem (2004)

Recruitment and Retention of Nurses/Health Care Professionals (2003)

Template for Public Health Strategic Plans "If You Don't Know Where You Are Going,

How Will You Know When You Get There?" (2002)

The Public Health Personnel Shortage (2002)

The Role of Local Health Officers in Pennsylvania (2004)

Two Case Studies of Meningococcal Infection in a High School (2000)

Vermont Department of Health Orientation (2004)

Vermont Public Health Training Institute (1999)

Vermont Public Health Association Policy Statement Development (2004)

 

 

9)   Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services

 

Identification of Children's Dental Needs by the Primary Care Provider (2003)

Improving Childhood Lead Screening Rates in a Targeted Populations (2002)

Marketing Public Health Using Examples of Environmental Health Interventions (2001)

Survey of All State Offices of Minority Health: Are They Eliminating Persistent Gaps in

Health Status Among Americans of Different Racial and Ethnic Groups? (2003)

 

10)  Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems

 

Bioterrorism and Emergency Preparedness Among Home Care Agencies in New York

City and the North Country of New York State (2004)

Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Issues and Use in New York (2000)

Comprehensive Environmental Health Project (2002)

Health Beliefs and Practices Among Persons of Different Spanish-Speaking Cultures (2002)

Leading Health Indicators Across NEPHLI Partner States (2003)

Men of Color: Health Care Issues and Concerns (2003)

Systems Approach to Improving and Monitoring Performance (2004)

 

Support for NEPHLI

 

Advanced Leadership Training (2003)

Developing Protocols and Process for the NEPHLI Scholar Projects (2001)

Diversify NEPHLI Scholars Through Outreach to Under-Represented Colleagues (2002)

Evaluate the Potential to Establish a NEPHLI Program Component the Involves Spouses

and Significant Others in Leadership Development (2003)

NEPHLI Alumni Survey (2000)

NEPHLI Leadership Award (2002)

NEPHLI Marketing Public Health and Networking (2002)

NEPHLI Newsletter (2000)

NEPHLI Program Impact Survey (2000)

NEPHLI Scholar Directory (1999)

Proposal for NEPHLI Web Site Layout (2000)

Regional Alumnae Meetings (2000)

Scholar Projects Compilation (2003)

Scholarly Pursuits Newsletter (2001)

Use of Leadership Styles to Enhance Public Health Careers (2004)