HSC 4624 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Water Fluoridation, Dental Caries, Public Water System

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4 Apr 2016

School

USF

Department

Public Health Studies

Course

HSC 4624

Professor

chan

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In this lecture in foundations of global health, we will be talking about global health program and design. The learning objectives in this section are to discuss program"s strengths and weaknesses, identify elements of program design, and understand how to evaluate a health program. This lecture will become important to you as you do your group evaluation of a health program. How i will lay this out is how dr. Ottendorfer wants us to evaluate the health program for your group project. If you kinda use this lecture as a template, or model for how you are going to do yours, you should probably see a pretty good grade on your project. Even though this isn"t in the book, it will be important for your group project. As i was looking for health programs for you to evaluate, i realized i gave all my best examples to the classes as ones you can sign up to do.

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12-1: Group Work: Preliminary and Program Development Research

Purpose

To assess your ability to:

Determine the role of research in health education and health promotion.

Distinguish the four phases, based on research, in the design of health promotions programs.

Discuss some typologies of research, relating to the type of data, research styles, and research approach.

Action Items

In this assignment, you will conduct preliminary research to identify behavioral and environmental factors contributing to a health problem of your choice, as well as relevant stakeholders.

This is what you will do:

Select a health problem of your choice

Select at least three of the following techniques:

Epidemiological data

Formal and informal interviews with key informants

Group sessions

Focus group interviews

Questionnaires

Rapid participatory appraisal technique

Use the techniques you have selected to collect data on behavioral and environmental factors contributing to the health problem you chose, as well as relevant stakeholders.

Write a report that includes the health problem, techniques, and findings.

Submit your report and be prepared to share it with your classmates.

Submission Instructions

Complete and submit this assignment per your professor's instructions.

phc-112 health education and promotion / please i need the answer very quickl

Introduction

The focus this week is the role of research in health promotion. We will consider the four phases of research in the design of health promotions programs. These are: preliminary research, program development research, monitoring, and evaluation. Preliminary research focuses on diagnosis of the existing situation, the environmental and behavioral causes of health problems and the determinants of these causes. Program development research facilitates the development of programs and action plans. Monitoring aims to examine the ways in which programs are implemented, including the processes of participation and collaboration, in order to keep track of and/or improve the program. Evaluation involves a review of the results achieved in the program in terms of its effectiveness, efficiency and validity.

We will also consider the types and styles of research. Types of research include qualitative and quantitative. Some common research styles discussed in your textbook include experimental, survey, documentary-historical, and field study. During a group project this week, you will have an opportunity to conduct preliminary research to identify behavioral and environmental factors contributing to a health problem.

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Case Study: Mental Health Parity

Presenting to the board, Chris spoke with passion. Our insurance plan should provide the same coverage for mental health services as for other medical services. It's the right thing to do, and it's good business. If our employees or their dependents have untreated mental health problems, the employees become less productive and waste money getting treated for other stuff. Thank you, Chris, said Kerry, the company's CEO. This is an important question for us, and the Benefits Committee will carefully consider it. After Chris left the room, Kerry turned to Jordan, the director of human resources, and said, Jordan, what's your take on this? There are actually two questions here, said Jordan. First, how elastic is the demand for ambulatory mental health services? How much will the use of mental health services increase if coverage improves? Second, how effective is mental health care? This second question is the more important one because good mental health care can have such powerful effects. Now, a number of studies have concluded that the use of mental health services is more price-sensitive than the use of other ambulatory care. Analyses of ambulatory mental health services have found elasticities ranging from 0.44 to 1.00. These results could be statistical flukes. Consumers who expect to use mental health services may choose insurance plans that offer generous coverage for those services. However, the RAND Corporation researchers Keeler, Manning, and Wells in 1988 used data from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, which randomly assigned respondents to insurance plans, to resolve this issue. The RAND analysis generally confirmed that the demand for mental health services is more price-sensitive than the demand for general ambulatory medical services. Demand for each is inelastic, but the elasticity for mental health services is 0.8 and the elasticity for other outpatient services is 0.3. Most consumers will not use any mental health services, but plans that offer generous mental health benefits will cost more. We can't ignore this. I'm confused, said Addison, an internist on the board. In 2012 McConnell and colleagues published a study showing that Oregon's law requiring mental health parity in commercial insurance plans had little effect on spending. How could that be? Real-life appears to be contradicting the RAND study. I'm sure the plans for federal employees used managed care techniques to control spending, Jordan jumped in. And mental health spending isn't the issue. The issues are what happens to other healthcare spending and what happens to our workers. I'm pretty sure there's good evidence showing that effective mental health treatment can reduce other costs and improve productivity.

Discussion questions:

Why does it matter whether demand for mental health services is more elastic than demand for other services?

The price elasticity of demand for ambulatory mental health services appears to be about 0.8, and the price elasticity for general ambulatory medical services appears to be about 0.3. How much would spending increase for each type of care if copayments were cut from $40 to $25?

What managed care techniques do insurers use to control spending?

Is there evidence that better treatment of mental health problems reduces other spending?

Is there evidence that better treatment of mental health problems improves productivity?

What is your recommendation to the Benefits Committee?

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In the discussion board this week we will examine the issue of howscience is presented to the public. It might seem a bit unrelatedto the content of the course this week, but I would like you tothink about your exposure to science before you enrolled in thisclass. Particularly the role the media plays in the understandingof science, be it the health issues, bioterrorism, or globalwarming. We will discuss these issues in the final few weeks of theclass. A past episode of ER highlighted a suspected case ofsmallpox. ER is one of many shows that the U.S. government used toget issues out to the American people. Consider a former CBS showcalled "The Agency" which portrayed CIA agents combating terroristplots or a current show âThe Unitâ which has a similar plot. Thegovernment provided enormous financial incentives to networks toinsert certain messages into the content of TV shows. Thisincentive program was somewhat hidden from the American public. Ourgovernment believed that messages inserted into television programsreached a broader audience than public service commercials.Meanwhile, the networks enjoy having more profit. Seems like awin-win situation. However, the program was dropped after it wasmade public in a Salon.com article a few years ago. Is theresomething disingenuous about government messages imbedded into TVscripts? Or do the ends justify the means? However, all incentivesare not gone. The Center for Disease Control offers annual $300,000grants available to nonprofit or government agencies to "fosterHollywood leadership support for national public health prioritieswhich include ... promoting accurate depictions of healthy livingat all stages of life." Some of you might have seen the ABC movieFatal Contact: Bird Flu in America, a couple of years ago. Clearly,television shows continue to portray real health threats in adramatic fashion. The question I would like you to consider iswhether these dramatic representations are the best way to educatethe public about health risks? Some sources to check out are:Primetime Propaganda:http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/ "The Quietdeath of Primetime Propaganda":http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1161/a01.html Use these sourcesas well as your own research to comment on this issue. What do youthink of this method of getting information to the public? Compareit to the information you can access from the CDC web(http://www.cdc.gov/) site concerning the flu and bio-terrorism.Which is the most effective way of informing the public? Which isthe most accurate? Can you think of a better method to inform thepublic about important health issues such as the flu vaccine orbio-terrorism? Another aspect of this topic that you might want toconsider is how the media shapes our view of health risks. We areexposed to hundreds of natural carcinogens every day yet thesewon't get near the news or media coverage that dumping of toxicchemicals Puget Sound by the paper industry or shipyards willreceive. You could even make the claim that the problem ofover-eating is the single greatest health risk today, yet McDonaldsis not viewed as an evil company the way industrial polluters ofPuget Sound might be portrayed in the media. Is this fair or moreimportantly is the media misleading us about the greatest healththreats in our society? Can you help me? I need in text citation aswell. Thank you!

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