Cervical Cancer

Health Education Council Presentation Slides

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Developing and Sustaining Integrated Tobacco and Chronic Disease Programs

"The Why, What and How for implementing a dual emphasis program"

Health Educations Councils National Conference

"Achieving Health and Social Equity in Tobacco Conrol"

April 26-28th

New Orleans, Louisiana

Hotel Monteleone

ABUNDANT LIFE HEALTH SYMPOSIUM

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COMING SOON!

Abundant Life Health Symposium

Saturday October 23, 2010

8:30AM to 4:30PM

Palmer Theological Seminary

6 E. Lancaster Avenue

Wynnewood, PA 19096.

 

Registration Material will be available soon. See attached Calendar Alert to mark your calendar now!

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

Effects of tobacco smoking on cancer and cardiovascular disease in urban black South Africans

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Br J Cancer. 2008 Mar 25 [Epub ahead of print] Stein L, Urban MI, Weber M, Ruff P, Hale M, Donde B, Patel M, Sitas F. 1MRC/NHLS/Wits Cancer Epidemiology Research Group, National Health Laboratory Service, PO Box 1038, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa. Abstract Demographic and lifestyle information from 9690 black patients diagnosed with cancer or cardiovascular disease was collected in an ongoing case-control study in Johannesburg, South Africa. Compared to never smokers, the odds ratio (OR) for lung cancer among current smokers was 16.3 (95% confidence interval (CI), 9.6-27.6) for men and 6.4 (95% CI, 4.0-10.4) for women. The corresponding OR for other smoking-related cancers was 4.6 (95% CI, 3.7-5.7) among men and 1.9 (95% CI, 1.6-2.2) among women, and for cardiovascular disease, 3.4 (95% CI, 2.1-5.4) among men and 1.5 (95% CI, 1.1-2.1) among women. Risks were higher among smokers than former smokers, and all risk estimates increased with increasing levels of smoking duration and intensity. Non-electric domestic fuel was associated with approximately 60% increase in the risk of smoking-related cancer, but not cardiovascular disease. Risks for cancers of cervix, oesophagus, oral cavity/pharynx, stomach, larynx, pancreas and anogenital region, as well as squamous cell carcinoma of skin were all significantly higher among current than never-smokers, with ORs ranging from 1.5 for cervix (95% CI, 1.2-1.8) to 14.7 for larynx (95% CI, 7.2-30). The risks of tobacco-related disease reported here are similar to that currently observed in Western countries, even though cigarette consumption is relatively low in this population.
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