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Innovative Framework For Academic And Public Health Departments' Partnership On Preparing Future Practitioners- Preliminary Data, Michele Kekeh, Muge Akpinar-Elci, Myngoc Nguyen, Nancy Welch
Innovative Framework For Academic And Public Health Departments' Partnership On Preparing Future Practitioners- Preliminary Data, Michele Kekeh, Muge Akpinar-Elci, Myngoc Nguyen, Nancy Welch
Community & Environmental Health Faculty Publications
This article presents a model to respond to current public health challenges and transform knowledge into preventive strategies. It also presents an innovative way for academic institutes and public health departments to focus on public health workforce development. Academic institutes partnership with public health departments have started fostering service-learning opportunities to engage students in public health with an emphasis on the specific public health outcomes. However, the benefit of service–learning projects on the health departments and the populations served is largely unknown. Recently, these service-learning opportunities are becoming less sustainable due to the inability of preceptors to provide the necessary …
Veteran Administration Disease Model To An Interdisciplinary Healthcare Model, Bertha J. Harris
Veteran Administration Disease Model To An Interdisciplinary Healthcare Model, Bertha J. Harris
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
There is a growing need for healthcare teams within the Veterans Administration (VA) healthcare system to effectively collaborate and communicate to improve patient outcomes. The need to improve patient care in the Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) has been well established. The scholarly literature does not provide evidence whether using the primary care PACT model on communication and teamwork by an interdisciplinary medical team ameliorates these communication breakdowns. Bronstein's design for interdisciplinary collaboration provided the overarching framework for this study. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate the use of the PACT model on communication and teamwork …
Public Education/Public Health Perspectives On Collaboration-Influence On High School Completion, Claudette Virginia Campbell
Public Education/Public Health Perspectives On Collaboration-Influence On High School Completion, Claudette Virginia Campbell
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The research problem focused on the use of collaboration by managers, supervisors, consultants, and professional staff in a department of public education and health to address disparities in on-time high school completion rates. The purpose of the study was to examine the perspectives of individuals in these public sectors on the use of collaboration as a means to improve on-time high school completion rates for African American and Hispanic students. The theoretical foundation and conceptual framework for the study were John Rawls's theory of justice and Amartya Sen's capability approach. The key research question involved how individuals in the public …