Building Bridges: Improving Health through

Program Integration

June 2010

Building bridges

From Yesterday

• Making the healthier choice the easier choice.

• Tapping into the imagination and creativity of local partners.

• Cultivating a sense of one-ness and building political will.

• Developing adaptive capacity.

• Collaboration at the community level.

From Yesterday

• Because chronic diseases themselves are so well integrated, so well connected, chronic disease control has to be well integrated and well connected.

• Bringing best practices up to scale.• Building demand for policy and

environmental change.• Improving clinical preventive services

delivery.

Today’s agenda

– More on contextual factors– Move into tracks

• Advocacy & Public Policy• Social & Environmental Determinants of

Health• Systems Level Change• Data, Surveillance, IT, & Decision Support• Managing Collaboration

– Reconvene in the large group

Continuing Education Credit

• Requirements for Successful Completion:– Sign in and pick up registration form– Complete registration form indicating

which sessions attended– Complete evaluation for all sessions

attended– Hand in registration form and evaluation

Continuing Education Credit

1 hour of ethics CE is being offered for the presentation

Ethnic Myths: Implications for Chronic Care Management

Sharon Brown, MN, PhD

3:15pm – 4:15pm June 16, 2010

Continuing Education Disclosures

• Commercial Support– This educational activity received no commercial

support.

• Non-Endorsement Statement– Accredited status does not imply endorsement by

the Department of State Health Services, Continuing Education Services, Texas Medical Association, or American Nurses Credentialing Center of any commercial products displayed in conjunction with an activity.

Continuing Education Disclosures

The conference planning committee has determined that these speakers and the material

they will present pose no conflict of interest.