Model for Public Health Competency Implementation- How to Advance Yourself as an MCH Leader (Self-Reflection Strategy). Leading Through Health Systems Change: A Public Health Opportunity is a planning tool you can use to think about the future in the era of health transformation. The key components include a five-step planning process and thinking through technical vs. adaptive challenges. The planning tool includes a module tailored to MCH professionals that was developed in partnership with the National MCH Workforce Development Center. It is available at no cost, but requires users to create an account.
- How to Find and Use Tools to Help You (Information Strategy). What has art got to do with public health? Like public health, art can play an important role in commenting on social issues. The potential of art to support better health is a not a new idea, however, the role of art in supporting the goals of public has had much less attention. Learn more about ways in which art and public health intersect, including the role of public art in wellbeing, using art to discuss or disseminate public health issues, and engaging the arts to increase health literacy and promote healthy lifestyles.
- Graduate Certificate in Arts in Public Health and Resources (University of Florida, Center for Arts in Medicine)
- Yale School of Public Health (Slideshow: The Art of Public Health)
- How to Activate Your Organization (Organizational Strategy). Each year, over 12,000 newborns are born with heritable or other conditions that require early detection and treatment. Newborn screening is a state public health activity, and includes the collection of a blood specimen from the newborn, specimen arrival at a state's lab, and results reporting. This report examines (1) what is known about the timeliness of newborn screening for heritable conditions, and (2) barriers identified as contributing to screening delays and strategies to address them. Is your agency working to improve newborn screening? Learn more about federal support for information sharing among and technical assistance to states, including recommendations for better integrating updated newborn screening guidance into nurses' protocols for newborn screening.
- How to Incorporate Partners (Systems Strategy). How can Title V professionals identify and monitor improvements to MCH outcomes resulting from health system transformation? Research shows that services provided by school-based health centers can significantly improve key educational outcomes among students; these outcomes can be supported by policy at the state level. Schools and local education agencies (LEAs) may be eligible, subject to an approved state Medicaid plan, for reimbursement for Medicaid services delivered in schools to children enrolled in Medicaid. This recent federal policy guidance outlines requirements that must be met for Medicaid reimbursement to be available. Find out if your state Medicaid agency, state education agency, and LEA are working together to explore opportunities to secure reimbursement for health services delivered to students enrolled in Medicaid. Have they mapped out a plan to ensure schools with large numbers of eligible students are equipped to participate?
- How to Engage Your Communities (Community Strategy). Since opening in 2009, Northern Dental Access Center in Bemidji, Minnesota, staff were increasingly seeing families with barriers that required legal remedies. Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota has been a partner agency since the clinic's opening, but in 2015 the partnership was formalized, expanded, and adapted to Medical-Legal Partnership best practices. This is a model of systems integration. More information about funding sources, services offered, results, barriers, and replication is available from the Rural Health Information Hub.
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