Call for Abstracts by the Health Administration Section of the American Public Health Association for the APHA 2014 Annual Meeting and Exposition
November 15-19, 2014 New Orleans, Louisiana
Healthography: How Where You Live Affects Your Health and Well-Being
Submission Deadline: Thursday, February 13, 2014
We invite all APHA members to be primary members of the Health Administration section and welcome all new, returning and continuing members to submit abstracts to our section! Health Administration is the right section for you if you have an interest in assuring the highest quality public health practice, identifying important issues in the advancement of quality and best practices in health administration, and seeking solutions that advance the health of the communities in which we live and work. The Health Administration section is also the right place for you if you value nurturing, supporting, training and exchanging information with public health and healthcare administrators of all disciplines and publicly advocating the highest quality practice based on sound administrative and scientific principles.
This section invites papers for presentation that address research, practice and policy issues as they relate to health administration and leadership in domestic and international governmental public health agencies, for profit and nonprofit health organizations, academia, business, industry and other settings.
Papers should identify specific administrative and leadership challenges in health administration practice. We encourage papers that focus on solutions including best practices, promising models for the future, and/or instructive failures that offer lessons learned for improvement. These papers should focus on how insights learned from research or practice can be applied in other settings.
Topics of interest include:
Administrative models for improving equity in access, quality, and outcomes
Administrative models for improving patient safety
Administrative models for public health preparedness
Challenges and benefits of social media for health administration
Collaborative improvement efforts in health administration
Core competencies in health administration
Cross-pollination between public health administration and healthcare administration
Emerging challenges in health administration
Ethics and accountability in health administration
Evidence-based health administration
Healthography: Administrative models for overcoming geographical differences in health outcomes
Impacts of the Affordable Care Act
Improving population health through healthcare administration
International perspectives on health administration
Managing risk in health administration
Model practices for mentoring and succession planning in health administration
Model practices in program evaluation
Models for coalition building and policy influence in local health departments
Models for effective management of public health advocacy campaigns
Models for user-centered design of public health interventions
Models of academic / practice partnerships
Public Health Systems and Services Research (PHSSR)
Quality Improvement in Public Health Administration
Successful models for communicating with policymakers
Successful models for meeting PHAB accreditation standards
Translation of health administration theory and research to health administration practice
Using technology to improve health administration practice
Workforce development, professional development, and human resources management in health administration
Workforce diversity in health administration
Program Planner Contact Information:
Alan Card, PhD, MPH, CPH, CPHQ
Evidence-Based Health Solutions
PO Box 62
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: (863) 877-0122
alan.j.card@gmail.com
and
Akilah Cadet, MPH
Quality Management--Department of Education and Training
San Francisco Department of Public Health--San Francisco General Hospital
1001 Potrero, Bldg 30, Suite 3200
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: 415-206-4013
Fax: 415-206-4450
akilah22@gmail.com