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Million Hearts: Key to Collaboration to Reduce Heart Disease
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Brinkman, Patricia – Journal of Extension, 2016
Extension has taught successful classes to address heart disease, yet heart disease remains the number one killer in the United States. The U.S. government's Million Hearts initiative seeks collaboration among colleges, local and state health departments, Extension and other organizations, and medical providers in imparting a consistent message…
Descriptors: Diseases, Heart Disorders, Health Promotion, Extension Education
Is Access Sufficient?: An Examination of the Effects of the MedShare Program to Expand Access to Prescription Drugs for Indigent Populations
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Shaw, Thomas; Carrozza, Mark – Evaluation Review, 2008
We conduct an evaluation of MedShare, a program designed to enhance access to prescription drugs for indigent patients in the Greater Cincinnati area. The program expands access to drugs by providing subsidies to reduce the costs paid by patients for their prescriptions. The assumption is that by expanding access to prescription drugs, participant…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Drug Therapy, Quality of Life, Patients
Constructing a Consensus-based Prevention Outcome Measurement Instrument.
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Siegal, Harvey A.; Lane, D. Timothy; Falck, Russel S.; Wang, Jichuan; Carlson, Robert G.; Rahman, Ahmmed; Chambers, Deborah T. – Journal of Drug Education, 2001
Describes Ohio's Prevention Evaluation Project (PEP), that developed a questionnaire to assess behavioral and attitudinal outcomes in primary drug abuse prevention programs targeting young people aged twelve to seventeen. One of PEP's principal achievements was the inclusion of community prevention program providers in the evaluation instrument…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Cooperation, Drug Abuse, Health Promotion
Higher Education Exchange, 2008
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Brown, David W., Ed.; Witte, Deborah, Ed. – Kettering Foundation, 2008
"Higher Education Exchange" publishes case studies, analyses, news, and ideas about efforts within higher education to develop more democratic societies. Contributors to this issue of the "Higher Education Exchange" examine whether institutions of higher learning are doing anything to increase the capacity of citizens to shape…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Public Health, Partnerships in Education
Health Promotion Cooperatives: An Alternative Delivery System for Rural Health Promotion Programs.
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Wagner, Donald I. – Journal of Health Education, 1994
Examines the networking strategy that was utilized to develop a rural health promotion cooperative in southwestern Ohio, with special emphasis on the success of this strategy as a technique for introducing change and reducing resistance to prevention programs. Also discusses the obstacles to, and the benefits of, such programs. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alcohol Education, Cooperative Programs, Educational Strategies
From Aging...to Saging--The Ohio State Senior Partners Program: Longitudinal and Experiential Geriatrics Education
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Kantor, Bonnie S.; Myers, Michelle R. – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2006
The Ohio State College of Medicine began its Senior Partners Program (SPP) in 2001 as part of its commitment to integrate geriatric education throughout all four years of the medical curriculum. For participating senior partners and medical students, the SPP has signified a journey through a continuum of aging. Initial evaluations suggest that…
Descriptors: Medical Students, State Schools, State Colleges, Geriatrics