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The Appleseed Project Bringing EMS and Public
Health Together
Module III Examples of Collaboration
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Public Health in Your Area

• Division of labor State, region, local
• Organization of services
• Priority issues and challenges
• Data sources and reporting activities
• Relationship to medical community

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EMS in Your Area

• How is 9-1-1 handled locally? What kinds and
  volume of calls do your receive?
• Who responds to a 9-1-1 medical call?
• Who is responsible for EMS in your region?
• Do you have a community public access
  defibrillation (PAD) program?
• How is your system funded?
• How does your system currently interact with PH?

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Injury Prevention in Your Area

• Organizational entities
• Major leaders and players
• Priority issues/challenges
• Data sources and reporting activities
• Participation of EMS and trauma system personnel

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The Appleseed Project
Bringing EMS and Public Health Together
Module IV Large Group Discussion Preventing
Elderly Falls in Florida
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Five Steps For Injury Prevention Program
Development

• Conduct Community Assessment
• Define the Problem
• Set Goals and Objectives
• Plan and Test Interventions
• Implement and Evaluate

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EMS for Childrens Five Steps For a Prevention
Program

• Conduct Community Assessment
• Do we have all the data we need?
• How can we best describe and profile the
  population of greatest risk?
• Who else needs to be at the table?

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EMS for Childrens Five Steps For a Prevention
Program

• Define the Problem
• What are the causes of falls?
• What specific populations (by age, location,
  etc.) are most at risk?
• When and where are falls occurring in your
  community?

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EMS for Childrens Five Steps For a Prevention
Program

• Define the Problem
• What are other factors to consider?
• Whats already being done?
• Is an effective intervention already identified?
  What are other resources?

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EMS for Childrens Five Steps For a Prevention
Program

• 3. Set Goals and Objectives
• Goal General, broad statement
• Objectives Specific, time-limited, quantifiable
• Process objectives vs. outcome objectives

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EMS for Childrens Five Steps For a Prevention
Program

• 4. Plan and Test Interventions
• Applying the four Es
• Education
• Enforcement (laws, regulations)
• Engineering/Environment
• Economic incentives

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EMS for Childrens Five Steps For a Prevention
Program

• 4. Plan and Test Interventions
• Proven interventions
• Cultural factors
• Timing
• Testing on a sample group

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EMS for Childrens Five Steps For a Prevention
Program

• 5. Implement and Evaluate Interventions
• Limited time and resources
• Ability to share experience
• Long-term maintenance

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Funding

• Partnering with local media
• Grants
• Commercial sponsorships
• Service organizations
• In-kind services

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The Appleseed Project
Bringing EMS and Public Health Together
Module IV Continued Small Group Discussion
Focus on interventions
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Small Group Discussion

• Assign a scribe and a presenter
• Select one or more potential interventions
  (oriented to one or more of the target
  populations)
• Come up with objectivesprocessoutcome
• Use 4 Es in developing plan
• Suggestions for collaboration and funding
• Describe next steps after today

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The Appleseed Project Bringing EMS and Public
Health Together
Sharing Next Steps Closing Comments Joe
Nelson, DO Florida EMS Deborah Mulligan, MD,
FAAP, FACEP Nova Southeastern University
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The Appleseed Project Bringing EMS and Public
Health Together
Module V Course Evaluation and Feedback