Linking Research and Public Health Practice A Review of CDC's Program of Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (1997) / Chapter Skim
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With periodic competitive renewals and expansions of the program, there are now 13 PRCs.4 Multidisciplinary faculty at these PRCs, located at schools of public health and academic health centers, focus on a series of related projects on a public health theme defined in terms of special populations, risk factors, or specific health conditions. The PRCs are expected to form partnerships to develop innovative ways to prevent disease and promote health, focus on high-priority 3Public Law 98-551 created Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.
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and its special relationship with state and local health departments make it a good institutional home for the health promotion and disease prevention content and the community-based focus of the PRC program. Because of the rapidly changing health care environment, CDC sees its role and relationship to the public health community changing significantly with prevention research and dissemination
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It identifies four main goals for the program, all intended to help meet national health objectives: · Maximize resources for complex public health research. · Make communities accessible and amenable to prevention interventions.
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CDC'S REQUEST FOR A REVIEW OF THE PRC PROGRAM In 1995, CDC asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to review the PRC program to examine the extent to which the program is providing the public health community with workable strategies to address major public health problems in disease prevention and health promotion.
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18 LINKING RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE TABLE 1.2 Growth of the PRC Program Year Established University 1986 Theme Workplace health promotion: New approaches to improving worker health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health 1986 University of Washington, Making prevention work with Seattle, School of Public Health community partners/ Health and Community promotion in older adults Medicine/Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound 1986 The University of Texas School From healthy children to healthy of Public Health adults 1990 Columbia University School of Reduction of excess morbidity Public Health and mortality in Harlem 1990 The University of Illinois, Health promotion and disease Chicago, School of Public prevention across the lifespan Health 1993 The University of California at Families, neighborhoods, and Berkeley School of Public communities: A model for action Health in chronic disease 1993 The University of South Carolina School of Public Health The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Promoting health through physical activity Promoting health and preventing disease among urban and rural adolescents 1993 The University of Alabama, Risk reduction across the lifespan Birmingham, School of Public within African-American families Health 1993 Saint Louis University School of Chronic disease prevention in Public Health low-income, rural communities 1994 The University of Oklahoma Health behavior promotion and College of Public Health disease prevention in the Native American population
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The committee has not assessed the quality of the health promotion and disease prevention research and demonstration projects of individual PRCs. Rather, the focus is on CDC's plans, actions, and support of the overall PRC program to facilitate the appropriate and effective functioning of the PRCs.
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The committee reviewed documentation about the PRC program, including: historic documents about the program, including its legislative history; · annual funding applications, internal review documents, and peer-review materials about each center; · applications from centers that did not receive initial or continuing funding; · criteria given in requests for proposals for new center grants and competitive renewals; · information about projects receiving SIP funding; · PRC program vision statements; · annual reports from each center for each year funding was received. As a second source of information about the PRC program, the committee developed a questionnaire for the directors of the 13 university-based PRCs.
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Overall, the committee finds in this report that CDC has made substantial progress with its PRC program and is to be commended for its accomplishments in advancing the scientific infrastructure in support of disease prevention and health promotion policy, programs, and practices. By further strengthening the PRC program, the CDC can increase its capacity to contribute to local, state, and national efforts to improve the health of Americans.
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