April 2-8, 2007
The New Jersey Public Health Association is making plans for National Public Health Week 2006, which will be held April 3-9. We need your help to make the week a success. For more inforrmation, please visit the National Public Health Week website.
National Public Health Week
April 3-9, 2006
The New Jersey Public Health Association is making plans for National Public Health Week 2006, which will be held April 3-9. We need your help to make the week a success. For this year's National Public Health Week, we are focusing on a Designing Healthy Communities: Raising Healthy Kids. As part of the weeklong observance, the New Jersey Public Health Association and communities across New Jersey and the country will consider how buildings, roads, sidewalks and neighborhood design are affecting the health of children. For example, children who live close enough to school to walk often do not because they have no sidewalks to walk on. Air pollution has contributed to higher rates of childhood asthma, and the lack of access to fresh foods and avenues for activity in some neighborhoods has contributed to rising rates of childhood obesity.
Tool Box for National Public Health Week
2006 NPHW Toolkit (gives tools for planning official NPHW 2006 events, tip sheets for media advocacy, sample news releases, PSAs, and legislative advocacy information)
Events
Eleventh Annual Public Health Symposium
Partners in Desgning Healthy CommunitiesMonday, April 3rd 2006
UMDNJ- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-Piscataway
4 PM - 9 PMMr. Killingsworth is Program Director for the Ruth Mott Foundation located in Flint, Michigan. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Killingsworth was the Director of Active Living by Design, a national initiative supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and an Associate Research Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. Mr. Killingsworth served for 15 years in the federal government and was a health scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the lead interventionist on CDC’s Active Community Environments Initiative, the first national effort to increase physical activity and improve health through community design and transportation alternatives.
Mr. Killingsworth is also one of only a few public health practitioners collaborating with city planning, transportation, architecture, and outdoor recreation professionals to develop policies and programs to promote physical activity through built environment interventions.
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Submit an Abstract for a Poster Presentation
National Public Health Week
April 4-10, 2005
The New Jersey Public Health Association is making plans for National Public Health Week 2005, which will be held April 4-10. We need your help to make the week a success. For this year's National Public Health Week, we are focusing on a “Live Stronger, Longer” campaign to identify and reduce the barriers that keep older Americans from getting the health care and information they need. As part of the “Live Stronger, Longer” campaign, we are encouraging local groups to host health assessment events and/or town hall meetings during National Public Health Week. We will be happy to help publicize these events.>
Tool Box for National Public Health Week
2005 NPHW Toolkit (gives tools for planning official NPHW 2005 events, tip sheets for media advocacy, sample news releases, PSAs, and legislative advocacy information)
Events
10th Annual Public Health Symposium
Sponsored by UMDNJ School of Public Health
Busch Campus Center, Busch Campus,
Rutgers April 4, 2005,
4pm – 9pm
Contact: Shirley Smoyak: smoyak@rci.rutgers.edu
Calculate Your Life Expectancy
The Living to 100 Life Expectancy Calculator© was designed to translate what we have learned from studies of centenarians and other longevity research into a practical and empowering tool for individuals to estimate their longevity potential. The average person is born with a set of genes that would allow them to live to 85 years of age and maybe longer. People who take appropriate preventive steps may add as many as 10 quality years to that. People who fail to heed the messages of preventive medicine may subtract substantial years from their lives.
Fact Sheets
Fact sheets are available from the American Public Health Association on: Older Adults, Families of Older Adults, Communities, Health Departments, Policymakers, Immunizations, Healthy Lifestyle, Injury Prevention, Prescription Medications, and Health Screenings.
National Public Health Week
April 5-11, 2004
The year's theme is eliminating health disparities and to engage public health communities to move from statistics to solutions. The goal during this week is to focus on highlighting a wide variety of projects and interventions to inspire other people who work on health care issues and want to reduce health disparities in their communities.
The New Jersey Public Health Association in conjuction with the American Public Health Association will help to highlight local projects and interventions that help to reduce health disparities in their communities. Please send a summary (one paragraph with contact information) to Dr. Jay Goldring goldjm@njpha.org and the NJPHA will publicize your efforts. Click here to see what local New Jersey groups are doing to reduce health disparities in their communities.
Statistics
Racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare exist and, because they are associated with worse outcomes in many cases, are unacceptable.
Racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare occur in the context of broader historic and contemporary social and economic inequality, and evidence of persistent racial and ethnic discrimination in many sectors of American life.
Many sources including health systems, healthcare providers, patients, and utilization managers may contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare.
Bias, stereotyping, prejudice, and clinical uncertainty on the part of healthcare providers may contribute to racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. While indirect evidence from several lines of research supports this statement, a greater understanding of the prevalence and influence of these processes is needed and should be sought through research..
A small number of studies suggest that racial and ethnic minority patients are more likely than white patients to refuse treatment. These studies find that differences in refusal rates are generally small and that minority patient refusal does not fully explain healthcare disparities.
Institute of Medicine Report. March 20, 2002. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Solutions
Increase awareness of racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare among the general public and key stakeholders.
Increase healthcare providers awareness of disparities.
Highlight a wide variety of projects and interventions to inspire other people who work on health care issues and want to reduce health disparities in their communities.
Your actions! Please send us a summary of your intervention or project to help reduce health disparities in your community (one paragraph with contact information) to Dr. Jay Goldring goldjm@njpha.org and the NJPHA will publicize your efforts.
Helpful References
American Public Health Association: National Public Health Week
List of Agencies and Public Health Resources
Institute of Medicine Report. March 20, 2002. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Case Studies of State and Local Models Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
A follow-up to the 2001 publication entitled "Health Departments Take Action: A Compendium of State and Local Models Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health." March 2003. Click Here for the full report
In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health Care Workforce. Committee on Institutional and Policy-Level Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the U.S. Healthcare Workforce. The report examines institutional and policy-level strategies - defined as specific policies and programs of health professions schools, their associations and accreditation bodies, health care systems/organizations, and state and federal governments - to increase diversity among health professionals.
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL COMPUTING & GRAPHICS IN PUBLIC HEALTH WITH R - OCTOBER 30, 2009
2009 NEW MEMBERSHIP AND RENEWAL FORM
PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATIONS' COLLABORATIVE EFFORT (PHACE)
NJPHA RECEIVES GRANT TO HELP STRENGTHEN ITS CAPACITY TO PROTECT PUBLIC HEALTH
FINDING THE EVIDENCE: EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE IN NURSING
NORTHEAST REGIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE (NEPHLI)
