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The Job Opportunity Investment Network Education On Diabetes In Urban Populations (Joined-Up) Project, Rickie Brawer, Mph, Phd, James D. Plumb Md, Mph, Diane Cornman-Levy
The Job Opportunity Investment Network Education On Diabetes In Urban Populations (Joined-Up) Project, Rickie Brawer, Mph, Phd, James D. Plumb Md, Mph, Diane Cornman-Levy
JCIPE 2012
Work in Progress (36 PowerPoint Slides)
Diabetes and obesity are inter-related health issues that impact many aspects of daily living, including workplace productivity and efficiency. Obese individuals are less likely to be employed and more often absent from work. Nearly one billion dollars per year is attributed to lost productivity for reasons relating to diabetes including early retirement, increased sick days, disability and premature mortality.
Utilizing an interdisciplinary team of a physician, public health staff, nursing and health educators, the Job Opportunity Investment Network Education on Diabetes in Urban Populations (JOINED-UP) is a diabetes and obesity healthy lifestyle education program …
Partnerships For Health - Jeff Health And The Rwanda Village Concept Project – A Model Of Interdisciplinary Health Professions Student Global Education, Ellen Plumb, Md, James D. Plumb Md, Mph, Francis Barchi, Mbe, Phd, Breanne Ward, Ashlyn Sakona, Morgan Greenfield, Elisabeth Collins, Cameron Bass, Md, Kaitlan Elston, Md, Rwanda Squad
Partnerships For Health - Jeff Health And The Rwanda Village Concept Project – A Model Of Interdisciplinary Health Professions Student Global Education, Ellen Plumb, Md, James D. Plumb Md, Mph, Francis Barchi, Mbe, Phd, Breanne Ward, Ashlyn Sakona, Morgan Greenfield, Elisabeth Collins, Cameron Bass, Md, Kaitlan Elston, Md, Rwanda Squad
JCIPE 2012
Seminar (23 PowerPoint Slides)
A partnership between the Rwanda Village Concept Project (RVCP), a medical student program in Butare, and Jeff HEALTH (Helping East Africans Link to Health), a multidisciplinary student organization at ThomasJeffersonUniversity, has been working in two Rwandan villages for the past five years. Initially, The Rwanda Health and Healing Project consisted of two programs, a Genocide Survivors Village Transformation and creation of a GenocideMemorial Park. These programs lead to a comprehensive community health assessment, which: 1) documented the needs through key informant interviews and focus groups; 2) identified health resources currently available; and 3) reviewed needs in …
College Within A College (Cwic) – Population Health, James D. Plumb Md, Mph, Rickie Brawer, Mph, Phd, Rob Simmons, Drph, Mph, Mches, Cph, Abbie Santana, Msph, Nancy L. Chernett, Ma, Mph
College Within A College (Cwic) – Population Health, James D. Plumb Md, Mph, Rickie Brawer, Mph, Phd, Rob Simmons, Drph, Mph, Mches, Cph, Abbie Santana, Msph, Nancy L. Chernett, Ma, Mph
JCIPE 2012
Seminar presentation (55 PowerPoint Slides)
The development of programmatic tracks providing students with academic opportunities outside of the traditional medical curriculum represents a national trend in medical education. With HRSA Interdisciplinary and Interprofessional Joint Graduate Degree five-year funding, the Department of Family and Community Medicine at ThomasJeffersonUniversitycreated an Inter-professional Primary Care Dual Degree Program (IPCDDP), which builds on JeffersonMedicalCollege’s College within a College (CwiC) Scholarly Concentrations Program in Population Health. The mission of the IPCDDP is to provide outstanding training in primary care and innovative education in chronic care management and population and public health in order to prepare primary …