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Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework

The Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) announced the release of the newly revised Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework, which undergoes revision and public comment every five years, and is the result of almost two years of review and deliberation by the Healthy People Curriculum Task Force (HPCTF). This group’s mission is to achieve Healthy People objectives of increasing health promotion, disease prevention, population health, and interprofessional learning experiences for students in health professions education programs. Kenneth Johnson, Associate Dean of the Dumke College of Health Professions at Weber State University, represented the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) in this important endeavor. The Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework provides a common core of knowledge for clinical health professions about individual and population‐oriented prevention and health promotion efforts. The Framework can support interprofessional prevention education and practice. The 4th revision of the Framework features: a new domain addressing mental and behavioral health; greater emphasis on Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and health equity; improved, updated illustrative examples; and 14 new or revised topic areas. The Framework can be obtained here.

Precarious Work Schedules And Population Health

According to a new brief from the journal Health Affairs, work has become more precarious in America over the past half century as employers have transferred more of the risks and uncertainties of doing business onto workers and households. As part of this shift, many workers have experienced an erosion of job quality—reductions in the real value of their wages; a loss or cutback of fringe benefits such as retirement plans and health insurance; and an increase in job insecurity. Policymaking responses to the rise in precarious employment have commonly focused on the economic dimensions, exemplified by appeals for a living wage. Yet, alongside changes in the economic dimension, the temporal dimension of work also has undergone seismic shifts. Unstable and unpredictable work schedules have become the new normal for many workers as the U.S. economy has shifted from manufacturing to service-sector jobs—and from steady Monday through Friday, 9–5 work hours—to a 24/7 economy. The brief synthesizes research findings that allow dots to be connected between precarious work schedules and health, and gaps are identified that remain to be filled. The brief can be obtained here.

Quantification Of U.S. Neighborhood-Level Social Determinants Of Health

The consequences of social determinants of health (SDOH) increasingly dominate public health discussions in the U.S. as population health outcomes have not kept pace with those of other developed nations despite higher per-person spending for medical services. A report in the journal JAMA Network Open on January 29, 2019 looks at geographic variation in social determinants of health in the continental U.S. Fifteen variables, measured as a five-year mean, were selected to characterize SDOH as small-area variations for demographic characteristics of vulnerable groups, economic status, social and neighborhood characteristics, and housing and transportation availability at the census-tract level. This data matrix was reduced to four indices reflecting advantage, isolation, opportunity, and mixed immigrant cohesion and accessibility, which then were clustered into seven distinct multidimensional neighborhood typologies. The report can be obtained here

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