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Annotation: These public-awareness-campaign materials are designed for use during Children’s Dental Health Month (February) to encourage good oral health for children of all ages. Contents include activity sheets; a guide for parents; a poster for displaying in an office waiting room; a certificate to present to children; tools for classroom educators (customizable letter and teacher’s guide); and classroom resources, including lesson plans, demos and videos, and frequently asked questions.

Contact: Procter and Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH Telephone: (800) 543-2577 Web Site: http://www.dentalcare.com Available from the website.

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Keywords: Children, Consumer education materials, Curriculum development, Learning, Multimedia, Oral health, Oral hygiene, Prevention programs, Primary prevention, Program development, Program planning, Public awareness campaign materials, Teaching

Annotation: This document describes a framework to support school readiness for all children. The framework comprises elements that foster children's learning and development, including teacher-child interactions that are emotionally and instructionally supportive and a well-organized classroom that maximizes learning opportunities; evidence-based curriculum and teaching strategies linked with ongoing assessment of child progress; and highly individualized teaching and learning practices that are required for some skills or for some children to access, participate, and thrive in the preschool classroom.

Contact: National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning, Telephone: (844) 261-3752 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/teaching Available from the website.

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Keywords: Assessment, Child development, Curriculum development, Emotional development, Learning, Quality assurance, School readiness, Spanish language materials, Teaching, Young children

Annotation: This document outlines competencies for health professionals engaged in obesity prevention and management. Contents include general concepts related to core obesity knowledge, interprofessional obesity care, and patient interactions related to obesity that can be integrated into existing curricula or used as a model for chronic disease curricula.

Contact: Bipartisan Policy Center, 1225 Eye Street NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005, Telephone: (202) 204-2400 Fax: (202) 318-0876 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://bipartisanpolicy.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Competence, Competency-based education, Curriculum development, Disease management, Models, Nutrition, Obesity, Prevention programs, Preventive health services, Resources for professionals

Annotation: This document describes how to determine the sexual health content and skills that should be taught at each grade level within a school health education curriculum framework to lower students' risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and unplanned pregnancy. Contents include guidance on using the Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) to inform the breadth and arrangement of key health topics and concepts across grade levels (scope) and the logical progression of essential health knowledge, skills, and behaviors to be addressed at each grade level (sequence) from pre-kindergarten through the 12th grade. Additional contents include steps to create or revise a sexual health scope and sequence using the HECAT. A brief overview that explains what a scope and sequence is and what it is meant to accomplish is also available.

Contact: National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatits, STD, and TB Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, N.E., Mailstop K-29, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724, Telephone: 800-232-4636 Secondary Telephone: (888) 232-6348 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth Available from the website.

• Step-by-step Process To Create Or Revise A Scope And Sequenc For Sexual Health Education
• Brief Overview Of What A Scope And Sequence Is And What It Is Meant To Accomplish

Keywords: Adolescent health, Adolescent pregnancy prevention, Curriculum development, HIV, Primary prevention, School districts, School health education, Schools, Sexual health, Sexually transmitted diseases

Annotation: \This paper provides guidance for integrating health concepts into the professional and interprofessional curricula of health and other professions such as law, business, architecture, urban planning, education, and engineering, including joint and dual degree programs.

Contact: Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, 1900 M Street, NW, Suite 710, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 296-1099 Fax: (202) 296-1252 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.aspph.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Curriculum development, Professional education, Public health

Annotation: This document for health professions education program faculty provides guidance on developing curricula focused on students' abilities to participate effectively as members of interprofessional health care teams delivering clinical prevention and population health services. Contents include examples of integrative learning strategies that address selected core competencies and content elements within the Clinical Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework. The content may be adapted and activities customized to an institution's specific learning environments and health professions education programs including dental medicine, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant, and public health.

Contact: Association for Prevention Teaching and Research, 1001 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 610, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 463-0550 Secondary Telephone: (866) 474-APTR (474-2787) Fax: (202) 463-0555 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.aptrweb.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Clinical medicine, Curriculum development, Disease prevention, Health care systems, Health occupations, Health policy, Health promotion, Health services, Preventive medicine, Professional education

Annotation: This guide provides a series of six lessons for use by instructors in institutions of higher education who are responsible for professional teacher preparation programs in health education, and in preservice courses that focus on improving health education curriculum selection and instruction. An introduction provides instructors with a synopsis of the guide, the intended outcomes of the lessons, a description of the lesson format, and essential actions to take in preparing to implement the lessons. Lessons 1–5 introduce students to the knowledge and skills prerequisite for analyzing a written single or multiple grade-level health education curricula, and then using those skills to analyze a curriculum. In lesson 6, students apply the elements of the Health Education Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT) to develop their own health education unit plans for use in the classroom.

Contact: National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatits, STD, and TB Prevention, Division of Adolescent and School Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, N.E., Mailstop K-29, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724, Telephone: 800-232-4636 Secondary Telephone: (888) 232-6348 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth Available from the website.

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Keywords: Curricula, Curriculum development, Outcome and process assessment, Preservice training, Program improvement, Program planning, School health education, School health programs, Teachers

Annotation: This program is designed to further health literacy collaborations among university disciplines (medicine, nursing, public health, dentistry, pharmacy, and education), community organizations, and others to improve health outcomes. Program services include continuing medical education, patient education materials and patient decision aids, curriculum development, health care system quality improvement, and grant writing assistance. Information about program members, literacy assessment instruments, health communication aids, teaching aids, and a toolkit are available on the website.

Contact: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, 725 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, CB# 7590, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, Telephone: (919) 966-5011 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.schsr.unc.edu Available from the website.

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Keywords: Continuing education, Curriculum development, Health literacy, Interdisciplinary approach, Oral health, Program descriptions, Program improvement, Resources for professionals

Annotation: This report provides guidance for an overall reframing of the masters in public health degree. Contents include key considerations, design features, and critical content intended to guide the purposeful transition to a 21st century model of public health education at the professional master's level.

Contact: Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, 1900 M Street, NW, Suite 710, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 296-1099 Fax: (202) 296-1252 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.aspph.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Curriculum development, Graduate education, Professional education, Public health, Trends

Annotation: This report provides guidance for an overall reframing of the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree. Contents include key considerations, design features, and critical content intended to guide the purposeful transition to a 21st century model of public health education at the professional doctoral level.

Contact: Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, 1900 M Street, NW, Suite 710, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 296-1099 Fax: (202) 296-1252 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.aspph.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Curriculum development, Professional education, Public health, Trends

Contact: Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, 1900 M Street, NW, Suite 710, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 296-1099 Fax: (202) 296-1252 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.aspph.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Curriculum development, Professional education, Public health, Trends

Annotation: This brief describes the process and outcomes of five projects to improve graduate student understanding of women's health and support institutional commitment to women's health. Topics include creating experiential learning opportunities for public health graduate students, fostering new didactic learning opportunities, and integrating women's health material into existing courses. The brief also includes information on women's health curricula offered by 13 federally-funded schools of public health. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Division of Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development, Health Resources and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, Telephone: (301) 443-2340 Web Site: http://mchb.hrsa.gov/maternal-child-health-initiatives/workforce-training Available from the website.

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Keywords: Curricula, Curriculum development, Graduate education, MCH training programs, Women', s health

Annotation: These resources are designed to help schools systematically assess and improve health policies and programs, identify national standards for health and physical education, revise health or physical education curricula, and align with national guidelines to promote healthy eating and physical activity. Contents include a guide for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of health policies and programs and developing an action plan to improve them; analysis tools for revising, selecting, or developing a quality health education or physical education curricula; and guidelines for promoting healthy eating and physical activity. Resources include information for state or local health and education agencies on hosting a workshop for schools or districts.

Contact: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027, Telephone: (800) 232-4636 Secondary Telephone: (888) 232-6348 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.cdc.gov Available from the website.

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Keywords: Assessment, Curriculum development, Health promotion, Nutrition education, Physical education, Policy development, Program improvement, School health education, Schools, Standards, Training

Annotation: These standards present written expectations for what students should know and be able to do by grades 2, 5, 8, and 12 to promote personal, family, and community health. The standards provide a framework for curriculum development and selection, instruction, and student assessment in health education.

Contact: National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027, Telephone: (800) 232-4636 Secondary Telephone: (888) 232-6348 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp Available from the website.

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Keywords: Assessment, Curriculum development, Oral health, School age children, School health education, Standards

Annotation: This website comprises materials developed by the Healthy Child Care America train-the-trainer program to address the needs of child care health consultants. Contents include modules and toolkits on topics such as consulting, curriculum development, caring for children who are ill, child maltreatment, children with special health needs, environmental health (including lead), the field of child care, infectious disease, injury prevention, mental health, nutrition and physical activity, oral health, quality in child care, and staff health. Evaluation forms, templates, and a training checklist are included. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Child care, Child care workers, Child maltreatment, Children with special health care needs, Communicable diseases, Curriculum development, Environmental health, Infections, Injury prevention, Lead, Mental health, Nutrition, Oral health, Out of home care, Physical activity, Qualitative evaluation, Training

Annotation: This resource for health professionals who teach adolescent health or clinical care of adolescents and young adults is designed to supplement existing adolescent health curricula. Contents include background, cases, questions and answers, links to websites, and references. Topics include puberty, interviewing and communicating with adolescents, confidentiality issues, health screening, sexuality, medical problems, eating disorders, and substance abuse.

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Keywords: Adolescent health, Curriculum development, Resources for professionals, Teaching

Annotation: This report summarizes comments from telephone interviews with employers in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors about emerging trends in public health and how public health graduates should be educated to address them. The appendix contains a list of key topics identified by interviewees as likely to draw attention and resources in the coming years from practitioners, researchers, and policymakers.

Contact: Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, 1900 M Street, NW, Suite 710, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 296-1099 Fax: (202) 296-1252 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.aspph.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Curriculum development, Professional education, Public health, Trends

Annotation: This resource provides a list of eight dental public health competencies and a curriculum to provide predoctoral dental students and dental hygiene students with the necessary foundation of knowledge and skills to meet the needs of the U.S. population. Topics of the courses include principles in dental public health; oral health literacy; ethics; dental public health policy and advocacy; oral health promotion and disease prevention; and evidence-based dentistry. Contents include presentations, instructor guides, syllabi, and other material.

Contact: American Association of Public Health Dentistry, 136 Everett Road , Albany, NY 12205, Telephone: (518) 694-5525 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.aaphd.org Available from the website.

• The Links To The Individual Courses Direct To A Survey That Will Ask You For Contact Information And Agreement To Terms Of Use And License Agreement.

Keywords: Advocacy, Competency based education, Curriculum development, Dental education, Disease prevention, Evidence based medicine, Health literacy, Health policy, Health promotion, Oral health, Professional education, Professional ethics

Annotation: These national education standards are intended to provide clear and consistent guidance on the essential minimum core content for sexuality education that is developmentally and age-appropriate for students in grades K-12. Developed as a result of the Future of Sex Education initiative that brought together health educators, advocates, policy makers, and other key players to create a strategic plan for sexuality education policy and implementation, the standards outline essential content and skills for sexuality education K-12 given student needs and available time and resources. The goals, guiding values, and principles behind the standards are also discussed. The standards are presented according to grade level and topic area, and additional resources are provided for teachers, school administrators, parents, and middle and high school students.

Contact: American School Health Association, 7918 Jones Branch Drive, Suite 300, McLean, VA 22102, Telephone: (703) 506-7675 Fax: (703) 506-3266 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.ashaweb.org

Keywords: Curriculum development, Guidelines, Manuals, School health education, Sexuality education, Standards

Annotation: This report provides guidance on starting a new undergraduate program in public health or expanding or improving an existing program. Topics include background domains, (content and skill areas), public health domains, cumulative experience and field exposure, and cross-cutting areas.

Contact: Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health, 1900 M Street, NW, Suite 710, Washington, DC 20036, Telephone: (202) 296-1099 Fax: (202) 296-1252 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.aspph.org Available from the website.

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Keywords: Curriculum development, Professional education, Public health, Trends