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5 Barriers and Opportunities for Using Models to Inform Population Health Interventions and Policies
5 Barriers and Opportunities for Using Models to Inform Population Health Interventions and Policies
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The team of Karen Minyard, the director of the Georgia Health Policy Center at Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, and Representative Sharon Cooper, the chair of Health and Human Services for the Georgia House of Representatives, then addressed the need to improve communication about the usefulness of models to policy makers. (Box 5-1 offers highlights from these presentations.)
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• Combining health policy content with a system dynamics–based approach to education can change the way that legislators frame issues, ask questions, build understanding, and develop and weigh solutions to complex health care issues. (Minyard)
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To determine reliability, Weisberg said, one can employ a process called robustness analysis, which essentially consists of looking at multiple models and seeing if they produce similar results. If models, despite their different assumptions, lead to similar conclusions, the result is a robust theorem that is relatively free of the details of the model.
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Minyard and her colleagues hypothesized that a combination of health policy content and a system dynamics–based approach to education could begin to change the way that legislators frame issues, ask questions, build understanding, and develop and weigh solutions to complex health care issues. 2This section is based on the presentation by Karen Minyard, director of the Georgia Health Policy Center at Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, and Sharon Cooper, chair of health and human services for the Georgia House of Representatives, and the statements are not endorsed or verified by the Institute of Medicine.
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Policy options in the model included ensuring safe routes to school, improving school food options, improving school physical education, improving nutrition and physical activity education in preschool programs, improving nutrition and physical activity education in after-school programs, and reimbursing medical nutrition therapy for obese children insured by Medicaid. In addition to offering this course, Minyard and her colleagues have been involved in a wide range of policy modeling projects, including
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During the subsequent course, the participants modeled obesity prevention, and the model showed that one of the most effective was to decrease obesity in children was to have good physical education programs in schools. Out of that modeling exercise came a legislative effort to learn why current programs were not working, and the finding was that the state education department and public health department were operating in separate silos.
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Rachel Ferencik, who oversaw the model's development at the eorgia G Health Policy Center, noted that the six-question framework that Minyard discussed, combined with stock-and-flow maps and other information the legislators were given, allowed the legislators in the course to use the model in an efficient and productive manner. George Isham asked Minyard if this program could be generalized to other state legislatures, and she replied that the Health Policy Center convened a meeting at which representatives from eight states came to talk to her and her colleagues about how this type of program could be implemented in their states.
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Minyard noted that the Health Policy Center has developed additional, abbreviated certificate programs for the Governor's Office of Budget and Policy and the state's Medicaid office. Finally, Cooper commented that legislators are hungry for knowledge and that they are only slowly discovering the resources that are available at state-funded universities.
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