Diabetes

The National Diabetes Education Program Evaluation Framework: How to Design an Evaluation of a Multifaceted Public Health Educat

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From CDC Preventing Chronic Disease Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy Volume 5: No. 4, October 2008

Exploring the Feasibility of Combining Chronic Disease Patient Registry Data to Monitor the Status of Diabetes Care

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From CDC Preventing Chronic Disease Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy Volume 5: No. 4, October 2008

PA's Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) collaborative

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The Gov's Office of Health Care Reform (GOHCR), through the Chronic Care Initiative (CCI), aims to implement the Chronic Care Model in PA and is the umbrella organization for this collaborative, statewide effort that brings together many stakeholders (including health plans). Learning collaboratives are being formed in PA's six regions, starting in SE May 15, SC in October and SW or NE in November. Learning collaboratives are formal groups of about 30 primary care practices (they sign 3-year contracts), which will be supported by quality improvement coaches via IPIP, report on measure sets (diabetes and asthma initially) provided by IPIP using a patient registry provided by IPIP. The learning collaboratives kick off at sessions, organized by the GOHCR, that provide education on the models as well as compensation for time spent out of the practice by participating physicians and staff. The learning collaboratives have follow-up sessions to share lessons learned and continue learning about the models. All of these services are free to practices. The CCI will be initiated in the remaining regions in 2009 while also going back to the SE to develop another learning collaborative and offer other clinical topics (perhaps something in prevention). It's been said that 500 practices is the "tipping point" - that point where change becomes permanent - so we will continue to recruit practices and implement the Chronic Care Model. Link: http://www.pafp.com/

Pennsylvania Cancer Education Network

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The Pennsylvania Department of Health is pleased to announce the Pennsylvania Cancer Education Network (Network) as a new cancer control initiative in the commonwealth that aims to help reduce the number of cancer cases and deaths in Pennsylvania

State Examples in Tobacco Chronic Disease Program Integration

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This two-part study defines the current level of integration among tobacco
control and other chronic disease / health promotion programs, describes what
state health agencies are doing to integrate tobacco control efforts into their
chronic disease and health promotion programs; identifies linkage points where
these programs intersect and compiles case studies that illustrate the factors that
predispose, enable and reinforce integration.

Strategic Alliances for Health Communities Grants

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Strategic Alliance for Health Communities focuses on the chronic disease risk factors of physical inactivity, poor nutrition, and tobacco use, and population-based responses such as policy, systems, and environmental changes. Closing date for applications is June 24, 2008.

For more information:

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=LRJJ9MT8TQhhCYZTRLjLyN6pyLsPpkzB12sMRLyTXkwnpwndn2nM!1480235049?oppId=17562&flag2006=true&mode=VIEW

2007 National Healthcare Quality Report and the 2007 National Healthcare Disparities Report

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For the fifth year in a row, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has produced the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and the National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR). These reports measure trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and efficiency of care. The reports present, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to health care.

 
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