Affordable care act: Opportunities to prevent violence

Lyles, Annie

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 9:50 AM-11:10 AM

Room 10/11 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Annie Lyles, MSW, Prevention Institute

Authors:
Larry Cohen, MSW, Prevention Institute
Sana Chehimi, MPH, Prevention Institute

Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Describe the dynamic relationship between community conditions, clinical practice, and individual health outcomes.
Describe concrete ways that health care providers can engage in violence prevention and advocacy efforts.
Identify specific structural and system-wide changes that are necessary in order to promote effective integration of community and clinical practice.

Description:
This session will explore how health care institutions can integrate primary prevention in their efforts to prevention violence and improve community health outcomes. Participants will identify ways health care providers can move beyond just acknowledging that the environment has an impact on patient health outcomes but also actively participate in improving it.