Public Health Pronto: Module 6.3

1. How to Advance Yourself as an MCH Leader (Self-Reflection Strategy). Identify your personal strengths and areas of growth by taking Domain 6 of the Competency Assessments for Public Health Professionals developed by the Public Health Foundation. You can take the assessment related to your professional position (front-line and entry-level staff; program managers and supervisors; or senior management and executive level staff).
2. How to Find and Use Tools to Help You (Information Strategy). This monograph makes health behavior theory accessible and provides tools to solve problems and assess the effectiveness of health promotion programs. It describes influential theories of health-related behaviors, processes of shaping behavior, and the effects of community and environmental factors on behavior.
3. How to Activate Your Organization (Organizational Strategy). Public health is a dynamic field, with knowledge and practice driven by research. There are many laws, regulations, formal and informal guidance documents, and other standards that govern research activities. These expectations are implemented by government bodies (e.g., federal or state government), federal agencies (e.g., the Department of Health and Human Services), or other national or international institutions. Importantly, these bodies may regulate the same or similar activities, which can result in conflicting guidance. This can be shown in this illustration on the University Michigan's Research Ethics and Compliance page. Do you and your colleagues keep abreast of laws, regulations, policies, and procedures for the ethical conduct of research in your organization?
4. How to Incorporate Partners (Systems Strategy). As neighboring states, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin share much more than weather. This website contains descriptions of projects completed by nursing students in community/public health nursing clinical. The projects can be sorted by competency, including Public Health Science Skills. The descriptions are meant to help faculty develop student projects that will benefit students and public/community health agencies. By sharing details of their projects, they are building a database that will help students and agencies build upon their experience.
5. How to Engage Your Communities Community Strategy). Check out CDC’s Community Health Improvement (CHI) Navigator and invest in your community. The CHI Navigator is a website for people who lead or participate in CHI work within hospitals and health systems, public health agencies, and other community organizations.  It is an excellent source for learning about establishing and maintaining effective collaborations within communities and identifying targeted tools that support success at every step of the CHI process. Do you take part in work involving your community? Access the CHI Navigator’s database of interventions to help you identify interventions to address socioeconomic factors, physical environment, health behaviors and clinical care.  Download the CHI Navigator Database of Interventions fact sheet for a detailed explanation on how to use the tool.

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• I read through implementation strategy #2 and found information about the Health Belief Model, which will help me understand our patients, their beliefs, and their drives to engage in our services.