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Primary Care & Community-Academic Partnerships Links (a developing page)

This page is the beginning of a tool to help in exploring and demonstrating the value of concepts whose validity seems to me to be completely obvious:

These may be obvious to me - and probably to you, but they are not to everyone.

Community assessment tools: Census and related information at http://www.census.gov/ ~ more government statistics at http://www.fedstats.gov ~ US Department of Health and Human Services home page (Office of Minority Health, Public Health Service, Refugee Health, etc.) at http://www.os.dhhs.gov/ ~ Healthfinder: Extensive site with diseases, treatments, etc. at http://www.healthfinder.gov/

http://kooh.kcc.hawaii.edu/ Academic/community-based partnership in Hawaii

http://www.aamc.org/meded/pew/start.htm Partnerships between academic health centers (AHC) and managed care organizations (MCO).

Center for Community Health Education, Research and Service (CCHERS), Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, Room 398CP, Boston, MA 02115

http://www.aacom.org/News/PartnerAct.html Amends the Public Health Service Act to consolidate and reauthorize health professions and minority and disadvantaged health education programs, and for other purposes.

http://ww2.med.jhu.edu/urbanhealth/report.html Johns Hopkins is serious about responsibility to and connections with the community this: "Since their founding more than a century ago, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions have embraced a commitment not only to serve the indigent sick, but also to care for members of the surrounding community. But in recent decades, East Baltimore's health status has declined dramatically, underscoring the need for a new approach. That approach must be based on the recognition that East Baltimore's health problems cannot be solved by medical means alone. And because the health of the Hopkins Institutions is inseparable from the health of the city in which its staff, faculty, students, and patients live and work, implementing a more comprehensive approach to community health must begin now." http://hopkins.med.jhu.edu/press/2000/JULY/000706.HTM Johns Hopkins makes a statement: "We have before us a challenging mission. This is an unprecedented undertaking for Johns Hopkins, but working together in a true partnership with a shared vision, we can begin making East Baltimore a healthier, happier place to live." President William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D.

http://www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/OMH/OMH/main2_projects.htm Office of Minority Health information related to academic/community partnerships (projects and initiatives)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/staffpubs/lo/makingpd.html NIH info on public health and communication of health-related information

http://www.publichealth.arizona.edu/about_coph2.htm "The Arizona College of Public Health will concentrate on realizing its mission of developing a collaborative statewide academic public health network to serve our State."

http://www.sph.umich.edu/chsp/trainingsites.html University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins, and Chapel Hill community-based collaborative programs

http://depts.washington.edu/sphcm/planning.html University of Washington (Seattle) School of Public Health & Community Medicine planning/position paper. Their goals are "to advance knowledge in the public health sciences; to develop highly competent researchers in the public health sciences; to train able and effective public health practitioners; and to promote health through involvement with communities."

http://www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/pewcomm/CompetenciesRNs.htm The future

http://www.futurehealth.ucsf.edu/hpsisn.html Health Professions Schools in Service to the Nation - Service Learning organization - See brief descriptions of programs around the U.S.

http://www.amsa.org/sc/ihag/ihopps.htm International opportunities

http://www.fmhi.usf.edu/institute/partners2.html Mental health and partnerships