Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration Between Health and Education to Improve Population Health Workshop Summary (2015) / Chapter Skim
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7 Final Reflections and Comments
7 Final Reflections and Comments
Pages 87-92
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He added that he would like the health care sector to understand more clearly the needs, objectives, and issues in the education sector. He also commented on the lack of curriculum content that could be used to teach health literacy and life skills in order to create healthier lifestyles, and he wondered if the case could be made for including health literacy content at every level of primary and secondary education curriculum, from kindergarten through grade 12.
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He also suggested to the Roundtable members that when they make their comments, they should think about what awareness they came to in this workshop and what insights they found particularly useful for informing action that the Roundtable -- or the country as a whole -- might take. David Kindig of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health reminded the workshop participants that research shows that environmental and social context plays a critical role in poor health and education outcomes, and he noted that the information that Orszag presented demonstrates that the contextual gap is growing.
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She said that she believes the acceptance of that evidence allowed the task force to move forward despite an inability to identify specific health outcomes to measure. She also said that she now believes, based on the presentations at the workshop, that high school completion programs may be one of the most important actions that the health care sector can support for changing the trajectories that lead to poor health in adulthood.
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present a great opportunity to study how to mix the community health outreach workers and health coaches that the new ACO models are developing with the workforce in school health clinics in order to advance the nation's health outcomes goals. He also said that the Roundtable, as the representative of a wide range of interests in the health sector, needs to help identify the key points for advocacy.
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Jeffrey Levi of Trust for America's Health said that the Bright Futures program as it functions under the Affordable Care Act could serve as a template for the sort of approach that Gold suggested. Gold added that a simple metric for success could be high school graduation rates, which, as the evidence presented at the workshop shows, are closely related to such health outcomes as life expectancy and morbidity.
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"We have to find the interventions to stop that." In closing the discussion, Kindig said that the first 1,000 days are critical in the life course. "I think we have to pay attention earlier than in the school situation," he said, "though we need to do that as well."
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