Search Results: MCH Organizations

Annotation: The Academic Pediatric Association (APA) is dedicated to improving the health of all children and adolescents by providing leadership in the education of child health professionals, research and the dissemination of new knowledge, patient care with measurable improvements in health outcomes, and advocacy for an equitable children's health agenda. APA provides online educational resources and research networks, legislative updates, and publications including special reports, a newsletter, and the journal, Academic Pediatrics.

Keywords: Adolescent health, Child advocacy, Child health, Pediatrics, Professional education, Professional organizations, Professional training, Research, Resources for professionals

Annotation: The California Dental Association Foundation seeks to improve the health of Californians by linking dentistry with community needs. The foundation reaches underserved populations through programs, grants, scholarships, and training. Educational programs provide participating dentists with skills to treat a variety of clients and opportunities to address the needs of critical segments of the population who have little or no access to oral health care. These programs include the Dental Professionals Against Violence, Perinatal Oral Health, First Smiles Education and Training Program, and the Pediatric Oral Health Access Program.

Keywords: California, Foundations, Oral health, Resources for professionals, State organizations

Annotation: Community Engaged Scholarship for Health (CES4Health.info) provides a mechanism for peer-reviewing, publishing, and disseminating products of health-related community-engaged scholarship that are in forms other than journal articles. The website is a component of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's Faculty for the Engaged Campus project that aims to strengthen career paths in the academy and is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The website contains a products database that can be browsed by category, keyword, author, title, resource type, product type, or methodological approach. Visitors can also save searches to a selected products folder or submit new products. Information about the editorial team and how to be a reviewer is included.

Keywords: Community health, Community participation, Databases, Information sources, Peer review organizations, Professional training, Public private partnerships, Research

Annotation: The Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (HIPRC) is one of 10 national injury control centers designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Research projects include the development of programs that prevent falls among the elderly and train health care providers to recognize domestic violence, use of state-of-the-art epidemiology to determine injury risk factors, use of biomechanics to study hard tissue trauma, evaluation of the effectiveness of helmets in preventing different types of recreation-related head injuries, and new methods for assessing injured patients. The center also hosts a list service, offers seminars, and conducts a program promoting the safe storage of handguns. The center offers publications and reference information to consumers.

Keywords: Data, Educational materials, Federal agencies, Injury prevention, National organizations, Resource centers, Resources for professionals

Annotation: The Harvard Injury Control Research Center is a multidisciplinary unit based at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Center's theme "Protecting Vulnerable Populations" is accomplished through applied research projects, conferences training activities, and communications with injury control professionals, journalists and reporters, opinion leaders, policymakers, and the public. HICRC has important collaborative ties with scientists at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Education Development Center, the Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, the six level-1 trauma centers in Massachusetts, Boston University School of Public Health and the New England Medical Center. HICRC resources are devoted to two priority issues: transportation safety and violence prevention. The Center sponsors workshops, conferences, and training seminars. Services to consumers include publications and reference information.

Keywords: Data, Educational materials, Federal agencies, Injury prevention, National organizations, Resource centers, Resources for professionals

Keywords: Dental hygienists, Idaho, Oral health, Professional societies, State organizations

Annotation: The mission of the Idaho Oral Health Alliance (IOHA) is to lead collaborative efforts to bring optimal oral health to Idahoans through education, advocacy, and program development.

Keywords: Idaho, Oral health, Professional societies, State organizations

Annotation: The Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, one of eleven national injury control centers designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is dedicated to high quality research that informs the establishment of programs and policies aimed at controlling the incidence, severity and consequences of injuries; the application of this research through professional practice; and the integration of research and practice with the education of future research scientists and practitioners in injury control. The Center embraces a public health approach to injury control and uses it as a framework to organize and prioritize its activities in the areas of primary prevention, acute care, and rehabilitation. Educational programs include the week long Summer Institute on Injury, academic courses, and special workshops. The Center also provides education and assistance on injury control to legislators, health departments, community agencies and the public. Services to consumers include referrals, publications and reference information.

Keywords: Data, Educational materials, Federal agencies, Injury prevention, National organizations, Resource centers, Resources for professionals

Annotation: The Lullaby Trust provides specialist support for bereaved families and promotes expert advice on safer baby sleep. It was previously called The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID).

Keywords: Child death, Infant death, International organizations, International programs, Professional resources, Public awareness materials, SIDS, Training, United Kingdom

Keywords: Head Start, Massachusetts, Professional societies, State organizations, Young children

Annotation: The National Association of State EMS Directors (NASEMSD) brings together the emergency medical services (EMS) directors of each state, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. The association provides leadership in developing effective emergency medical systems and helps to formulate national EMS policy. It also sponsors an annual conference, and maintains databases on U.S. ambulance services and on physicians who provide medical direction to EMS provider agencies.

Keywords: Ambulances, Child health, Child injury, Emergency medical services, Emergency Medical System, Injuries, Injury prevention, National organizations, Resources for professionals, Therapeutics, Trauma

Annotation: The National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC) works to improve the quality of health education practice. The commission maintains a certification process for health education specialists and promotes professional preparation and continuing education programs. Publications include a newsletter.

Keywords: Certification, Continuing education, Health education, Professional review organizations, Professional standards review, Professional training, Resources for professionals

Annotation: The National Health Council is an umbrella group of a variety of organizations and businesses dedicated to the promotion of voluntary health groups. The council provides reference information to consumers, publishes a newsletter, and sponsors conferences, training seminars, and workshops.

Keywords: Careers, Councils, Fiscal management, Information sources, National organizations, Professional societies, Voluntary health agencies

Annotation: The San Francisco Injury Center is one of ten national Injury Control Research Centers designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mission of the SFIC is to expand knowledge in the areas of acute care for traumatized individuals and to promote injury prevention strategies and policy advocacy efforts among local, regional, and national audiences. Current research in the area of acute care brings together multidisciplinary faculty, staff and students from throughout the UCSF Health Sciences Campus. Prevention and policy activities are carried out in collaboration with the Trauma Foundation through support of the Injury Prevention Library, injury surveillance, conferences, educational programs and fellowships. Services provided to consumers include referrals, publications, and reference information. The organization publishes a newsletter.

Keywords: Data, Educational materials, Federal agencies, Injury prevention, National organizations, Resource centers, Resources for professionals

Annotation: Sudden Infant Death Services of Illinois (SIDS of Illinois) is dedicated to the prevention and eventual elimination of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other causes of infant death through through educational initiatives stressing proven risk reduction strategies. Activities include reducing infant mortality by decreasing the incidence of infant deaths due to SIDS, accidental suffocation, overlay, entrapment, metabolic disorders, and other accidental causes; improving the quantity and quality of comprehensive, family-centered bereavement services for those impacted by a sudden pediatric death; and training professionals throughout Illinois who are likely to encounter cases of sudden pediatric death to better assist newly grieving families. Information on services and materials are available from the Web site for parents, children, friends, grandparents, as well as professionals.

Keywords: Child death, Educational materials, Illinois, Infant death, Injury prevention, Neonatal death, Prevention, Resources for professionals, SIDS, State organizations

Annotation: The Injury Control Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB ICRC) strives to help the nation, and especially the southeastern region, achieve an accelerated reduction in injury-related morbidity, mortality, and disability. As one of eleven national injury control research centers designated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the UAB ICRC has selected rehabilitation research as its unique niche. The Center works to improve rehabilitation practices that help people with injuries achieve their maximum potential, and to stimulate faculty development in rehabilitation and related areas. In addition, the UAB ICRC coordinates research and community programs which incorporate other facets of injury control, including biomechanics, health promotion and disease prevention, acute care and epidemiology. Within UAB's Schools of Engineering and Public Health, the ICRC sponsors graduate and undergraduate level courses which focus on many aspects of injury prevention and control. Center publications include a semi-annual newsletter (The Informer) and a report of research findings published every two years. The UAB ICRC also sponsors conferences, workshops, training seminars and monthly research updates for funded projects and Center-related research initiatives.

Keywords: Data, Educational materials, Federal agencies, Injury prevention, National organizations, Resource centers, Resources for professionals

Annotation: The University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center (UI IPRC) aims to control and prevent injuries in high risk rural populations (these include children, the elderly, farmers, and farm families) through research, training, and public policy, targeting especially rural motor vehicle injuries, and farm and other occupational injuries. The Center is organized around five multidisciplinary cores, six large research projects, and a pilot research grant program involving faculty from four colleges and sixteen departments at The University of Iowa. The specific aims of the six large research projects are 1) To evaluate Iowa’s trauma system; 2) to conduct a randomized control trial of different types of smoke detectors in a rural area; 3) To examine risk taking among children by using a bicycle simulator; 4) to study driving abilities in sleep deprived drivers by using a driving simulator; 5) to determine the effects on driving performance of the most commonly utilized antiepileptic drug, phenytoin; and 6) to integrate the approaches of public health and clinical psychology to explain the longitudinal course of intimate partner violence and its impact on women’s physical and psychological health. The UI IPRC also provides outreach information and education programs, supports multidisciplinary training in injury prevention, and promotes the development of public policies to prevent and control injuries. The UI IPRC supports the Midwest Injury Prevention Consortium and also serves as a national resource for rural injury prevention.

Keywords: Data, Educational materials, Federal agencies, Injury prevention, National organizations, Resource centers, Resources for professionals

Annotation: The Center for Infant and Child Loss assists Maryland families as they learn to live with the loss of their child and to have hope for the future. The Center's programs reach out to bereaved families and the community and foster hope by offering public education, health professional training, and instruction for emergency responders and others who may provide support. Each of the Center's four programs is designed to meet individual, family, and community needs. For those families who do experience the sudden death of an infant or child, the Center makes immediate contact to give them available information about the cause of death and support in their grief. The Center produces a newsletter titled Insights.

Keywords: Bereavement counselors, Child death, Community outreach, Families, Family centered services, Family resource centers, Family support programs, Infant death, Maryland, Professional training, Public education, SIDS, State organizations, State programs

Annotation: Founded in 1987, the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center is one of 11 "Centers of Excellence" funded by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The center's mission is to build the field of injury prevention and control through a combination of interdisciplinary scholarly approaches to research, intervention, and evaluation as well as through the training of the next generation of researchers and practitioners. IPRC facilitates injury collaboration and research at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as well as with researchers and practitioners throughout the United States and the world. Current studies concern occupational injury, violence, including interpersonal violence, homicide and suicide, and sports injury. The center offers technical assistance, disseminates information through newsletters and seminars, and coordinates activities with local coalitions, state health agencies, and national organizations such as the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Director’s Association and the Southeastern Region Injury Control Network.

Keywords: Data, Educational materials, Federal agencies, Injury prevention, National organizations, Resource centers, Resources for professionals