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Partnering to Catalyze Comprehensive Community Wellness

Author/s: 
Gerd, Dilley, Abby, Katie, Hines, Mason, Heise, Georgia, Im, Ji, Kaiman, Sherry, Levi, Jeffrey, Moerhle, Carole, Pierce-Wrobel, Clare, Schoof, Bellinda, Wiesman, John, Fraser, Michael

The Public Health Leadership Forum (PHLF) at RESOLVE teamed with the Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF) to develop a framework that supports enhanced collaboration between health care and public health entities. Join a webinar on November 27th at 1pm CST to learn more about essential elements of the framework: Partnering to Catalyze Comprehensive Community Wellness: An Actionable Framework for Health Care and Public Health Collaboration. Register here

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public health primary care collaboration

Healthy Oklahoma 2020

Author/s: 
Neuwald, Sharon, Hadden, Shelagh K.

A host of organizations in Oklahoma are concerned that the health status of Oklahomans ranks near the bottom of all states in the United States. In a significant effort to improve health status, the Oklahoma State Board of Health convened a broadly based group and charged it with developing a statewide health improvement plan.  The Oklahoma State Legislature passed Enrolled Senate Joint Resolution No. 41 on March 11, 2008, requiring the Oklahoma State Board of Health to “prepare and return to the Legislature a health improvement plan for Oklahoma for the general improvement of the physical, social, and mental well-being of all people in Oklahoma through a high functioning public health system.”  The five-year health improvement plan was initially issued in 2010 and updated in 2015.

The purpose of the OHIP is to improve the health of Oklahomans.  It is understood that the health improvement plan is designed to guide investments, define roles of participating organizations, and identify strategies, all to protect and promote the health of Oklahomans, to prevent disease and injury, and to assure the conditions by which Oklahomans can be healthy.

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public health oklahoma

Confronting Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic: Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use

Author/s: 
Ford, Morgan A., Phillips, Jonathan K., Bonnie, Richard J.

The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two substantial public health challenges—reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can result from the use of opioid medications. In March 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) to convene an ad hoc committee to

• update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education since publication of the 2011 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research, including the evolving role of opioids in pain management;

• characterize the epidemiology of the opioid epidemic and the evidence on strategies for addressing it;

• identify actions the FDA and other organizations can take to respond to the epidemic, with a particular focus on the FDA’s development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring; and

• identify research questions that need to be addressed to assist the FDA in implementing this framework.

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opioids pain management chronic pain public health
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