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Community Health
Planning and Policy Development Section
American Public Health Association
Student, Blum, and CHPPD Service Award winners at 2006 conference.
Welcome to CHPPD . . .
This web site is dedicated to the principles and practices of health planners, regulators and policy developers who have an interest in exchanging views, observations and other contemporary information of interest.
click here for new APHA-sponsored CHPPD page
HEALTH CARE AND CIVIL RIGHTS
Current Assessment of Civil Rights in Health Care, or
Why the 1964 Civil Rights Law is Inadequate for 21st Century Discrimination
Second of a three-part webinar series on civil rights and health care
Lead Presenter: Vernellia Randall, Professor, University of Dayton School of Law
Thursday, May 22, 2008, 1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time
Register by email at d.montgomery@arkansas.gov by May 20, 2008, and provide a contact number. Space is limited to 80 participants on a first-come first-served basis, so please register early.
A blog is available for participants wishing to continue their discussions on
Health Care and Civil Rights - Historical Perspective/Legal Issues:
http://hc-cr.blogspot.com/2008/04/sessions-recorded-for-legacy-of-civil.html.
Policy 101 Conference Call
The Policy 101 Conference Call was held on March 26, 2008, and hosted by Harry Perlstadt, Ph.D., M.P.H.. He explained how the APHA policy-making process works, and how CHPPD members can become an active participant. For more information, he may be contacted at perlstad@msu.edu.
click here to download an MP3 sound file of the dialogue
2007 CHPPD Section Survey Results
Thank you for participating in the 2007 CHPPD Membership Survey. Members described benefits of participation are: personal growth, helps with activities related to their jobs, and connecting with people in the 2007 CHPPD Section Survey. Most members are interested in community health and public policy. For details beyond the summary link above, click on 2007 CHPPD Survey Details.
CHPPD's Letter to Support the Genomics Forum
click here for PDF version of letter
CHPPD Reading Club
The CHPPD Reading Club" is a forum for member to recommend and share books, journal articles or electronic media resources of interest to community planning and policy development practitioners. All you have to do is:
- Register here for the “CHPPD Reading Club”, and
- Post your reading suggestion, or respond to a CHPPD member's suggestion, or take up the suggestion. Don't forget to comment if you do read a suggested resource.
Click here to access the CHPPD Reading Club
CHPPD newsletters: new
and old
Due dates for next special pre-conference editions: Jan 11, May 11, Sep 11, 2008
e-mail your articles and pictures
to Priti Irani pri01@health.state.ny.us
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An energetic Governing Counsel meeting at the APHA Annual Conference.
The
CHPPD Section was established in 1969, and its mission, principles
and purposes are:
The
Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section (CHPPD)
seeks to promote planning and policy analysis as essential
elements in the betterment of the public health at the national,
state, community and organizational levels. The development
and enactment of policies that affect community health must
rely on both sound science and participatory democracy. This
section of the American Public Health Association (APHA) supports
the principles of a strong local public health infra-structure,
the promotion of public over private interests, the embracing
of diversity, and the need to educate, empower, and include
the citizenry in health planning and policy development. To
accomplish these visions, our purposes are to:
- Promote planning and policy analysis as
essential elements in the betterment of the public health
at the national, state, community and organizational levels;
- Advance the practice of effective health
planning and policy analysis in public and private health
settings;
- Improve the scientific and technical base
of health planning, policy analysis, and policy formulation
in the public and private sector;
- Identify opportunities for collaboration
between community health planning and other disciplines in
relation to issues of mutual concern, to arrange for their
consideration by members of the Section, and to effect recommendations
for action stemming from such considerations; and
- Stimulate thought, discussion, and research
concerning health problems in which community health planning
is involved and to investigate approaches to their solution.
 
Covering the CHPPD booth, plus past/current/future chairs networking at the social.
For more information,
contact:
Sue Myers,
Section Chair
sue.myers@healthequityassociates.org
Health Equity Associates , LLC
825 Otsego St
Havre De Grace, MD 21078-2616
you may also call
866-432-6303.
To join the CHPPD
of the American Public Health Association,
contact www.apha.org, or call 202-777-2742.
Narrative of Uniform Emergency Volunteer
Healthcare Practitioner Act Survey Results
In the Fall of 2006, CHPPD collaborated with the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs, International Health, Medical Care, Oral Health, Public Health Education and Health Promotion, and Vision Care sections to survey APHA members of those sections regarding attitudes towards volunteering in emergencies or disasters of major scale in an effort to help inform the drafting of the “Uniform Emergency Volunteer Healthcare Practitioner Act" (UEVHPA). The UEVHPA is an effort to provide model language that all states may use so that we can more efficiently and effectively deploy valuable public health assets during critical events.
Here is an overview of the survey results:
There were 1,077 respondents to this survey with 71.8% or 773 women and 28.2% or 304 men participating. More than a third (37.2% or 401) of the responses were members of the Public Health Education and Health Promotion section. The next two sections with the most respondents were the CHPPD section with 15.9% or 171 and International Health with 14.7% or 158 respondents.
Direct care providers accounted for 27.3% of the participants. Many good points were raised by participants regarding providing a clearer definition of “direct care provider” This issue should be addressed in future iterations of this type of survey. The three top categories for “Field of Employment” were Doctor (26.1% or 86), Nurse (13.3% or 44) and Other (35.5% or 117). Given the high rate of response from the PHEHP section, it is reasonable to conclude that adding a category of “Public Health Educator” in field of employment.
Seven of every ten respondents self-report having six or more years experience in their field of employment with 48.1% or 516 respondents reporting more than eleven years experience.
With respect to number of participants who are also enrolled in ESAR as a volunteer, only 12.2% or 121 individuals answered “yes.” Many open ended responses requested more information on ESAR and how to become engaged as a volunteer. This is one action item that CHPPD and its sister sections should pursue with appropriate partners. Other related follow-up actions could tie in DMAT, RISC team and other similar opportunities.
The power point presentation associated with this survey details the relative ranking of importance of issues to respondents.
Last updated 04/02/08
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