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 The Department of Defense 
Medical Interagency Satellite Training Program  (MIST)

  Present: 

“Healthy Places Leading to Healthy People:
Community Engagement Improves
Health for All ”

Tuesday 02 October 2007; 1400-1500 ET

(Repeat from 11 May 2007)

Available on GETN/Warrior Platforms

No CE Credits

a.  Sponsors:  This program is co-sponsored for Military and Federal GETN subscribers by the Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Grand Rounds and Prevention and the Department of Defense Medical Interagency Satellite Program with the technical support of the Satellite Education Network (SEN) at Ft. Lee, VA. 
 

b.  Availability:  This program will be available to military and federal GETN/MIST sites that have GETN/ATN/Warrior digital satellite downlinks.  A listing of potential GETN receive sites can be seen here:  GETN Site Location.    

MIST affiliate satellite networks such as the VA’s Employee Education System and the Department of Justice Television Network may also carry this program but IAW with their own scheduling.

There is No C/KU Band Analog satellite for this repeat program.  

Videoconferencing may be available to selected military and federal VTC sites using the USA TNET or the USN CNET networks and other VTC networks able to connect to this satellite feed.  Site coordinators using VTC are responsible for their own bridge coordination.

Will this program be Webcast?  Yes, as an archived webcast (see the confirmation.)

c.  Target Audience Statement:  Federal, military and public health leaders, managers, professionals from local and state health departments, environmental health professionals, injury prevention professionals, chronic disease professionals, local and state planning and community design professionals, community organizers, academic institutions, community-based health organizations, boards of health, planning and zoning boards, state and local governmental officials and their staffs, federal agencies, and others who are interested in community health in all of its facets.

d.  Program Summary:   "The places where people live, work, learn, and play will protect and promote their health and safety, especially those people at greater risk of health disparities." - Overarching CDC Healthy Places Goal

In addressing the emerging and re-emerging challenges of public health in the 21st century, CDC is focusing efforts to improve the health of Americans through a more integrated and comprehensive approach.  CDC’s Healthy Places goals examine a broad spectrum of health issues associated with communities, homes, schools, workplaces, healthcare facilities, institutions, and transportation/recreational facilities.  This approach seeks to address the potential human health impacts of physical space and environmental exposure.

Healthy communities are places where public health systems, social infrastructure and policies support health and essential public health services (including quality health care) that are readily available to all.

The Healthy Communities goal supports the work of communities to identify the root causes of health risk by assessing issues such as environmental barriers/threats (chemical, biological, physical and social), social determinants of health, social and cultural networks and norms, water and air quality, food safety, hazardous waste sites, nutrition and physical activity and safe streets and neighborhoods.

The program highlights the community of Wabasso located in Indian River County, Florida.  Wabasso demonstrates the intent of the CDC Healthy Communities goal by intervening at the "place level" instead of at the "person level" used in the traditional public health intervention model.  While there are many community-level planning and assessment tools available such as Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP), Health Impact Assessment (HIA), and Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH), Wabasso successfully used the Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE-EH) to identify and address some of its place-specific health issues, including quintessential environmental health issues such as air and water quality and other health issues such as injury prevention and physical activity promotion.  

e.  Public Health Grand Rounds Goal:  This program will seek to increase knowledge and awareness of how the PACE-EH health assessment/ engagement tool has helped communities clearly identify health and social problems driven by place-related elements within the community environment, and, it will highlight how this process has helped to focus and build coalitions for change across agencies and community groups for the overall public health and well-being of citizens in a community.

Objectives:

• Increase knowledge of methods to address health challenges at the community-level by addressing root causes through intervening at the place level instead of just at the person level used in the traditional public health intervention model.
• Describe how the PACE-EH assessment/engagement tool works and how it has benefited both the residents of Wabasso and its health department.
• Increase knowledge and awareness of how the PACE-EH tool has helped communities clearly identify health and social problems driven by place-related elements within community environments.
• Increase knowledge and awareness of how the PACE-EH tool has helped to focus and build coalitions for change across agencies and community groups.
• Increase knowledge and awareness of available community-level tools such as PACE-EH, MAPP, HIA and REACH.

f.  Program Panelists:
 

William L. Roper, MD, MPH; Dean, UNC School of Medicine, Vice Chancellor for Medical Affairs, CEO, UNC Health Care System

Edward L. Baker, MD, MPH; Director, NC Institute for Public Health, UNC School of Public Health

Stephanie B. Coursey Bailey, MD, MSHSA; Chief of Public Health Practice, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Chris Kochtitzky, MSP; Healthy Communities Goal Team Leader, Coordinating Center for Environmental Health and Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Nisha Botchwey, PhD, MCP; Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia, School of Architecture
Susan Sutherland, RS; Assessment Coordinator, Environmental Health, Delaware County, Ohio General Health District
Sharunda Buchanan, PhD, MS; Director, Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

g.  CEUs, CMEs, Certificates:  None

h.  DVD/Videotape Availability:  None, sites should tape from broadcast.

i.  Videotape release (if taping from broadcast):  This FREE program is unclassified and non-scrambled.  There are no copyright restrictions on these program, however they MAY NOT be videotaped and re-broadcast where fees are attached to its showing.  They may also not be used for commercial purposes or for profit purposes by commercial organizations without additional permission of the sponsors.  

j.  Interactivity/Questions:  None

k.  Registration:  All military and federal GETN sites MUST register for this FREE, public domain program to receive the necessary illumination authentication (GETN/Warrior dishes) and coordinates.  Sites may register at: DOD-MIST Registration Site or by calling the DOD-MIST Satellite Program Registrations Coordinator, toll free at 877-820-0305 or 888-820-4898. 

l.  Future Programs:  For future information on free interagency satellite broadcasts co-sponsored by the DOD MIST program (subject to change due to satellite availability and other scheduling issues) and other sponsors please visit this web site:  (Information changes periodically; please refresh your browser upon each visit) http://www.dlnets.com/itv.htm#current.

m.  Program Requests:  Miss a program and would like it repeated?  Make your request here: DOD-MIST Program Request Form.

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