July 12, 2022
Community Health Corner
Community health uses science-based approaches for the greatest health benefit to the greatest number of people by addressing the social, economic, and structural drivers that impact everyone’s health. The National Extension Framework for Health Equity and Well-being recommends using community development practices to ensure that every person has the opportunity to "attain his or her full health potential," and no one is "disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances." The following tools and resources can be used to improve health equity and well-being working with communities to achieve the nation’s Healthy People 2030 objectives.
REGISTER NOW: NASEM (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine) will host a webinar on July 28, (Thursday) 12 - 2:30 p.m. (CDT) on respiratory protection for the public. The public’s interest in respiratory protection is growing with the COVID-19 pandemic and recent wildfires in the United States, but the nation's systems for oversight of respiratory protection are focused on occupational use. The webinar focuses on national stakeholders reviewing the respiratory protection needs of the public and steps for ensuring improved preparedness and protections for public emergencies requiring respiratory protection. Register now: https://bit.ly/3RdJw6c.
OBTAIN NOW: The Community Guide (which is CDC’s guide to best practices to reduce chronic diseases and conditions) has updated the What Works Fact Sheet for diabetes prevention and management. This two-page summary features an easy-to-read table that show Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommendations and findings for evaluated intervention approaches. This diabetes prevention resource and other What Works Fact Sheets can be viewed online or printed as a handout, making it useful for communications with decision makers and partners.
REMINDER: The Office of Primary Care and Rural Health, KDHE offers a webinar each month on rural health topics. On July 14, 1 - 2 p.m. the webinar is on Ag Stress: Focusing on Farmer’s Mental Health and features the developers of Kansas Ag Stress, program of the KS Department of Agriculture. For the schedule of the webinars and to register click here.
For more information, contact Elaine Johannes, ejohanne@ksu.edu; and Stephanie Gutierrez, smgutier@k-state.edu.