Category: Community Engagement

Health Policy at the Ground Level: The Impact of Marketplace Guides on Healthcare Utilization

In response to provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that became effective in 2014, Christiana Care Health System (CCHS) hired 12 market place guides (MPGs) to assist eligible uninsured individuals with enrollment in insurance and provide referrals to meet patients’ healthcare needs. Policy experts predicted that new insurance coverage would lead […]

Kids Safe and Smokefree: A Multilevel Intervention Model to Address Child Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Parental Smoking in Underserved Communities

Low-income and underserved populations have higher smoking rates, greater challenges in quitting smoking, and bear greater tobacco-related morbidity/mortality risk than the general population. More intensive interventions are needed to address this ongoing public health priority. This presentation will describe a recently completed trial that combined a pediatric systems-level intervention with a pragmatic, individualized intervention. We […]

Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention during Pregnancy and Continuing Care Postpartum

In spite of the well-established negative health implications of tobacco smoking during pregnancy on mother and unborn child, 15.4% of pregnant women report smoking in the past month. Approximately one-third of women who smoke prior to pregnancy quit spontaneously during pregnancy, but up to 60% relapse within the first six months postpartum. This presentation will […]

Research in Diet, Nutritional Status, and Energy Balance in Infancy

Increasing evidence indicates there are sensitive periods in life during which nutrition and growth may have a programming or long lasting effect on later life health outcomes; one such period is infancy. This presentation will focus on diet composition, nutritional status, and measures of energy balance in infancy, and their effect on growth, in both […]

Healthy Food Access: Intervention Trends and Research Findings

From the establishment of state and national financing programs that support the development of supermarkets in low income communities to improving corner stores’ inventory to promote health, innovative approaches to change the food environment to influence public health are gaining momentum nationally. This talk will review the history of the “movement” and will include an […]

Health Literacy: The Impact on Health Care Institutions, Providers, and Consumers/Patients

This presentation will provide an overview of the growing recognition of health literacy as a key factor in consumer/patient empowerment for their own health, health information knowledge, and adherence to health care recommendations resulting in poorer health outcomes and major increases in healthcare costs. Evidence and recommendations for healthcare system changes, patient health provider/patient communication, […]

The People’s Report: Opportunity and Activism in the Streets of Wilmington, Delaware

Involvement in crime can be thought of as a type of coping and adaptation resulting from experiences with extreme economic poverty. In the Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods of Wilmington, Delaware, street identified Black men and women were employed as community research-activists to involve local residents in exploring this relationship. Dr. Payne is an Associate Professor […]

Global Surgery 2030: Evidence and Solutions for Achieving Health, Welfare and Economic Development

Remarkable gains have been made in global health in the past 25 years, but progress has not been uniform. Mortality and morbidity from common conditions needing surgery have grown in the world’s poorest regions, both in real terms and relative to other health gains. At the same time, development of safe, essential, life-saving surgical and […]

Community Coalitions and Collaborations to Improve Health Outcomes: The Example of Childhood Asthma

There is a lack of understanding about how to achieve effective community engagement and contributions to translational research. This area is becoming increasingly recognized by national funding agencies as a critical need for developing effective and broad-reaching programs that lead to improvement in health outcomes. This talk is appropriate for anyone interested in community engagement, […]

A New Paradigm for Outcomes Assessment

There are several large initiatives that have potential to create a paradigm shift in the way outcomes measurement is practiced. These include the PROMIS, Neuro-QOL and adaptations for rehabilitation populations, the TBI-QOL and SCI-QOL and all have been developed using innovative item banking procedures and Item Response Theory. All of these scales utilized extensive qualitative […]