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.
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