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Enjoy Bike Month Safely: Bicycling Safety Considerations To Keep in Mind from Recent Injury Prevention Research Bicycling is an enjoyable form of physical activity for many people. Most people (89.8%) in a recent survey have ridden a bicycle at one point in their life.1 People ride bicycles for a variety of different reasons. A recent survey found that most survey respondents (76%) ride bicycles for fun and almost half (47%) also ride bicycles for exercise.1 Many (22%) ride bicycles to ride with friends, family, or coworkers who ride bicycles as well to commute to work or school (27%).1 Only a few people say they rideRead More →

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I recently got my Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) through an online course offered by TUM on the edX platform. I admire how the certificate itself and the process of obtaining it was highly efficient, exemplifying the ideas of Lean and Six Sigma, reducing waste and reducing variation in quality improvement. Lean and Six Sigma are two separate, but related philosophies in the quality improvement and management realm across a variety of different industries. I was first introduced to the concept in the healthcare industry and in the field of public health. Wanting to further my knowledgeRead More →

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Twitter is a social media platform with 330 million active monthly users as of 2017 for sharing posts of up to 280 characters–as of November 2017; prior to November, the character limit was 140 characters–that can also include images, links to articles, and short video clips. Twitter is useful for health departments because it is low cost. Unlike running an ad in a newspaper or on the radio–there is no cost to share a post (called “Tweeting”), reply or share other users’ posts (called “Retweeting”), or like or otherwise engage with Tweets. The only costs are staff time and resources dedicated to creating the contentRead More →

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Community driven population health improvement efforts that include a health equity lens as well as cultural competence in their programs and initiative work to address population health issues. Through a community driven, collaborative approach, essential stakeholders as well individual citizens provide valuable insight, data, research, ideas for ways to address the population health issues, funding, and gives the stakeholders more of a stake and ownership of the programs and initiative. When  health equity is taken into account, programs and initiatives can be designed to provide additional help those who may be at a higher risk of a certain issue or at more of a disadvantageRead More →

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Six Sigma is a quality improvement methodology that organizations in many different fields utilize to improve their organization’s processes and performance. A systematic way for keeping track of Six Sigma projects is essential to being able to effectively use Six Sigma to improve the processes and performance of the organization. It is also important that this system is standardized throughout the organization and that all employees who will be using it are trained on how to correctly use it. A good system will include a way to decide if the problem identified is enough a problem to be addressed in a Six Sigma project, beforeRead More →

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In the information age, organizations and departments within organizations often encounter the problem of data existing in silos, where one department or organization cannot easily access data that they need for a project from another department or organization. This can lead to inefficiencies, such as having to stop a project and use time and resources just to retrieve the data needed before the project could continue. Keep in Mind the Goals for the Data Project It is important to keep in mind the organization’s problem or goal which the data project needs to measure or address.(1)  Focus on that first instead of seeing what dataRead More →

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Cross sector collaborations can be a great way to address population health issues. There are myriad ways and types of cross sector collaborations as well as a variety of types of organizations involved in cross sector collaborations. Here are a few examples of current or recent collaborations. Examples Engaging Youth in Building a Culture of Health — Collaboration between the National 4-H Council, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the national Cooperative Extension System, and Local Health Councils The National 4-H Council is partnering with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the national Cooperative Extension System and local Health Councils in 1,000 different communities in the U.S.Read More →

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Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) Accreditation is a set of nationally recognized standards in the U.S. that are intended to improve the quality and performance of all public health departments, whether they are Tribal, state, local, or territorial health departments. As of this past August 2017, over half (51%) of state health departments are PHAB accredited, while another quarter (25%) of them are in the process of getting PHAB accredited. Less than a quarter (24%) of state health departments in the U.S. are not PHAB accredited nor in the process of getting PHAB accredited (Figure 1). At the local level, only 21% of local healthRead More →

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The Environmental Profile of a Community’s Health (EPOCH) One way in which to conduct a study specific to the community is by using the Environmental Profile of a Community’s Health (EPOCH), a measurement tool designed for collecting data on environmental factors that are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. EPOCH measures both objective factors as well as subjective perceptions of the environment of community members.(1) EPOCH has two parts, EPOCH 1 that assesses the physical environment and EPOCH 2 is an survey of participants’ perceptions of environmental factors in their communities (2). This instrument has been tested in both urban and rural communities (nRead More →