Making a commitment to Health for All in 2010

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Dear Service-Learning Colleagues,

On behalf of the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health board and staff,
we are looking forward to seeing many of you at CCPH's 5th anniversary
conference this weekend in San Antonio, "HEALTH For All in 2010:
Confirming Our Commitment, Taking Action."  But whether you are able to
attend the conference or not, we are writing to ask you to join us in
making a commitment to achieving the Healthy People Objectives for the
Nation and helping to catalogue and disseminate the many wonderful
courses, programs and initiatives already underway to promote health.

U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher has specifically called upon health
professional schools to be key partners in achieving the Healthy People
2010 goals and objectives.  Indeed, higher educational institutions as a
whole can make significant contributions to advancing the health of the
nation - through their roles as educators, researchers, service providers,
employers, campuses, community assets and citizens.   Service-learning,
community-based participatory research and other forms of community-campus
partnerships are key strategies for promoting health in our communities.

This email contains the information you need to get started!

Please review the attached handouts prepared for discussion at the
conference.  The first handout -- "Assessment Tool, Declaration Form and
Resource Listing" can help you assess the extent to which you are
currently promoting health within your organization or partnership, and
provides a form for declaring the specific actions you will take over the
next year.  (Conference participants will share their commitments at the
conclusion of the conference; we will summarize these on the listserv and
invite others to share theirs).

The second handout -- "Inventory of Health-Promoting Courses, Programs and
Initiatives" will help us to document and disseminate information about
existing efforts.  Your inventory responses will form the basis of a
directory of health-promoting courses, programs and initiatives that CCPH
will publish in hard copy and as a searchable database on-line.  Course
syllabi will be made available on the CCPH website and through links to
course websites.  Data from the questionnaires will also be analyzed and
summarized in a report that will be widely disseminated to our members
and other key constituents.

NOTE: To be included in the first edition of the directory, please return
your completed inventory by May 15 (instructions are provided in the
handout itself).

To learn more about the Healthy People 2010 Objectives for the Nation,
visit healthypeople.gov.  Below are just a few of the objectives that lend
themselves well to community-campus partnerships.

1-7
Increase the proportion of schools of medicine, schools
of nursing, and other health professional training schools whose basic
curriculum for health care providers includes the core competencies in
health promotion and disease prevention.

1-8
In the health professions, allied and associated health profession fields,
and the nursing field, increase the proportion of all degrees awarded to
members of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

7-3
Increase the proportion of college and university students who receive
information from their institution on each of the six priority health-risk
behavior areas.

7-1
Increase high school completion.

7-2
Increase the proportion of middle, junior high, and senior high schools
that provide comprehensive school health education to prevent health
problems in the following areas: unintentional injury; violence; suicide;
tobacco use and addiction; alcohol or other drug use; unintended
pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and STD infection; unhealthy dietary patterns;
inadequate physical activity; and environmental health.

7-4
Increase the proportion of the Nation ' s elementary, middle, junior high,
and senior high schools that have a nurse-to-student ratio of at least
1:750.

9-11
Increase the proportion of young adults who have received formal
instruction before turning age 18 years on reproductive health issues,
including all of the following topics: birth control methods, safer sex to
prevent HIV, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, and abstinence.

21-13
Increase the proportion of school-based health centers with an oral
health component.

7-5
Increase the proportion of worksites that offer a comprehensive employee
health promotion program to their employees.

7-6
Increase the proportion of employees who participate in employer-sponsored
health promotion activities.

1-4
Increase the proportion of persons who have a specific source of ongoing
care.

1-5
Increase the proportion of persons with a usual primary care provider.

11-6
Increase the proportion of persons who report that their
health care providers have satisfactory communication skills.

26-23
Increase the number of communities using partnerships or
coalition models to conduct comprehensive substance abuse prevention
efforts.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please email me at
sarena@u.washington.edu or contact Kara Connors, CCPH senior consultant,
at kara@bridgewayhealth.com

Thanks,

Sarena D. Seifer
Executive Director

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Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a nonprofit organization that
fosters partnerships between communities and educational institutions that
improve health professions education, civic responsibility and the overall
health of communities.  In just five years, we have grown to a network of
over 1000 communities, health professional schools, colleges and
universities that are collaborating to improve health.  To learn more
about CCPH, visit our website at http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/ccph.html
or call 415-476-7081.
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