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PHF E-News brings you the latest ideas and tools for quality improvement and workforce development in public health.
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TRAIN: Preparing Your Public Health Workforce for the Road Ahead |
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TRAIN has grown into the nation's largest and most comprehensive learning management system for public health, encompassing a community of 23 states and two national organizations. Whereas an in-state learning management solution may be limited by the scope and reach of its resources, TRAIN continues to burgeon as an increasing number of public health professionals, organizations, states, and course providers come aboard. Today, TRAIN is opening its doors and finding seats for other states and national organizations to join this training community. In addition to meeting the training needs of over a quarter million registered users, TRAIN also provides a return on investments to affiliates (states and organizations who comprise the system). Saving over $3.5 million in training costs for nurses and environmentalists in 2007, Kentucky-TRAIN is able to ensure that Kentucky's public health workforce is prepared to protect the health and safety of its community for a fraction of the original cost. Click here to view the KY-TRAIN ROI. If you have not yet explored the TRAIN learning management system, we invite you to create a FREE account today! If you believe that TRAIN can benefit your state or organization, click here to request the TRAIN Marketing Booklet.
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Free Quality Improvement Online Training on Childhood Obesity Now Available on TRAIN |
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Preventing childhood obesity has become a critical need for our communities and a major new responsibility for our nation's public health system. While there are emerging evidence-based strategies that can help prevent childhood obesity, the effective application of these strategies and development of new and even better practices will require the use of performance management and quality improvement (QI) techniques - techniques widely used by other sectors to achieve better results. Childhood Obesity: Getting Started for Better Outcomes provides learners with a foundation in performance management and QI concept and exercises to learn public health applications, and gives participants tools and confidence to get started using QI to benefit community health. Developed by PHF and the Delmarva Foundation, this online course is free and available on TRAIN. Funding was provided by the Quality Health Foundation.
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New PHF PM & QI Services |
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In a drive to help public health systems save lives, cut costs, and get better results by managing performance, PHF provides a comprehensive set of performance management (PM) and quality improvement (QI) services. Through training, technical assistance, and coaching and collaborations with partners in quality improvement and public health, PHF helps public health organizations harness proven quality improvement techniques to benefit the public's health, drawing on the best available research, resources, and expertise from the private, public, and academic sectors. Visit the PHF website to learn more about the following:
- The Quality Improvement Learning Series Catalog: The catalog provides public health agencies and organizations with a wide variety of QI programs, tools and techniques, which they will need to be successful in the implementation and expansion of QI. Currently, there are 27 courses in QI (basic, intermediate and advanced levels) and eight consulting services available.
- PHF QI Consultants Biographical Sketches (last updated 10/2008)
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PHF Events at the APHA Annual Meeting |
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The 136th American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting & Exposition will take place in San Diego, CA, on October 25-29, 2008. PHF has organized sessions on core competencies for public health professionals and applying quality improvement to public health programs. In addition, PHF will participate in a session on the National Public Health Performance Standards Program. Information on these sessions are as follows:
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