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PACE EHRedefining Local Environmental
Health
PACE EH National SummitLouisville, KentuckyMarch 28-29, 2006
The PACE EH Methodology
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Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health
A tool offering local health officials
guidance in conducting a
community-based environmental health
assessment and creating an accurate
profile of a community’s
environmental health status
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PACE EH was produced by:
The Community Environmental Health Assessment Program at NACCHO
Funded through a cooperative agreement between NACCHO and the National Center
for Environmental Health, CDC
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Question:
What is the cornerstone of “good” science?
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Key Objectives of PACE EH
• Evaluate Environmental Health Conditions
• Target Populations at Risk
• Set Priorities
• Support Health Equity and Social Justice
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What Are Not the Key Objectives of PACE EH
• Does not define the parameters of “Environmental Health”
• Does not provide a menu of issues or indicators
• Does not provide pre-designed action plans
• Does not require a health equity focus
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Benefits Across PACE EH Sites
Fosters confidence
“Clients” to “Partners”
Database development
Community ownership of EH
Improved EH
Leadership role
Bridge-building
New work skills
New professional partnerships
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The Thirteen Tasks of PACE EH
Task 1: Determine Community Capacity
Task 2: Define/Characterize the Community
Task 3: Assemble a CEHA Team
Task 4: Define the Goals, Objectives and Scope
Task 5: Generate List of EH Issues
Task 6: Analyze Issues w/ Systems Framework
Task 7: Develop Indicators Task 8: Select StandardsTask 9: Create Issue
ProfilesTask 10: Rank IssuesTask 11: Set Priorities for
ActionTask 12: Develop Action
Plan(s)Task 13: Evaluate Progress
and Plan for the Future
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Tasks 1- 3 Prepare for the Process
1.) Facilitators examine potential for a CEHA
2.) Facilitators “map” the target community
3.) Invite key community/staff members
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Tasks 4 - 6 Locate the Issues
4.) Define Goals & Scope of Assessment
5.) Generate List of Local EH Issues
6.) Describe the Context of the Issues
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Tasks 7 - 9 Quantify and Qualify the Issues
7.) Develop Local Indicators
8.) Select Relevant Standards
9.) Create Issue Profiles
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Tasks 10 - 13 Set the Stage for Action
10.) Rank the Issues
11.) Set Priorities for Action
12.) Develop Action Plans
13.) Evaluate Progress
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PACE EH – The Five Primary Challenges
Data limitationsLack of consensusScientific view v.
public perception
AuthorityIndicators
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Obstacles to meeting the challenges of PACE EH
• Extensive community outreach
• Translating between perception and science
• Rearranging work methods and priorities
• Promotion of CEHA efforts
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Environmental Health at Schools of Public Health
• 28-30 Graduate Schools of Public Health• 11 offer advanced degrees in EH
– 85-90% of all core classes are “hard science” and issue specific
– Little to no Social Sciences– No community outreach, no media
strategies• Approximately 75% of PH graduate
students do NOT become employees of local public health agencies
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The Public Health Workforce
• About 500,000 public health workers• Of those, only 44% have formal, academic
training in public health; most do not have a public health credential (e.g., an MPH).
• Median local public health agency staff size is 13 FTEs
• Local public health agencies struggle to fill workforce with technically proficient staff, other proficiencies deemed secondary
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Environmental Health Workforce Development
Current Status:• Less than 50% coming out of schools of public health• Those that do, not prepared for community
collaboration• Too few employees, and too many specific funding
streams, in most local public health agencies to support discrete skill specialization
• Maryland health directors claim it takes approximately five years to fully train a new employee
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What can PACE EH do?
Undertaking the PACE EH methodology builds competency:
• Extensive community outreach• Translating between perception and science• Rearranging work methods and priorities• Promotion of agency efforts
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