Integrating Preconception Health into Daily Practice: Strategies for Workforce Development

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Integrating Preconception Health into Daily
PracticeStrategies for Workforce Development

• Giannina Donatoni, M.T.(A.S.C.P.), Ph.D.
• Los Angeles County- Department of Public Health
• Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Programs

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Thank you to

Denise Gee, R.D., M.P.H. Cynthia Harding,
M.P.H. Victoria Lombardo, M.S.N., R.N. Maryjane
Puffer, B.S.N., M.P.A. Diana Ramos, M.D.,
M.P.H. Naveen Sangwan, M.B.A., M.P.H.
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Todays Presentation

• Setting the stage
• From data to training
• Strategies for workforce development

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Los Angeles CountyPreconception Health
Collaborative
California Family Health Council LA Best Babies
Network LA County Department of Public
Health March of Dimes PHFE WIC
Program Perinatal Advisory Council
Leadership, Advocacy, and Consultation VA Greater
Los Angeles Healthcare System
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Los Angeles County Preconception Health Community
Profile
Foundations Churches
Schools LAC Dept LAC Dept
Parks Recreation First5 LA
Mental Health California Family Black
Infant Breastfeeding
Health Councils Health Program Hospitals Task
Force of Greater Los
Asthma Angeles Coalition MCH
Access Service
PHFE-WIC Planning Areas LA Best
Physicians LAC Health March
of Healthy Babies Midwives Dept of
Public Plans Dimes Births Network Nurse
Practitioners Social Services Learning Co
mmunity Clinics LA Care Collaboratives Associa
tion
Los Angeles County Public Health Department
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Speakers Bureau Presentation

• Public Health workforce
• Importance and relevance to the life course
• Key time to address
• Strategies to address
• Preventive services to address

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Speakers Bureau PresentationContent

• Abuse
• Behavioral
• Chronic Disease
• Diet, Drugs, and Dads
• Environmental Exposures
• STIs, Shots, and Screening

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Speakers Bureau Presentation Post-Training
Evaluation

• 99 knew components of preconception health
• 20 could identify optimal opportunities to
  address preconception health
• 16 could not determine how to incorporate
  preconception health into their work

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• Define preconception health and its components
• Describe at least two models of integrating
  preconception health into practice
• Identify specific strategies to put into daily
  practice

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Engage with Data
http//publichealth.lacounty.gov/ha/reports/habrie
fs/2007/Preconception_Final_sec.pdf
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Preconception Health UpdatePost-Training
Evaluation

• 72 address healthy weight
• 69 address contraception

• 63 folic acid
• 70 promote breastfeeding
• 72 use online resources

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Preconception Health Collaborative Web Site
http//publichealth.lacounty.gov/mch/ReproductiveH
ealth/PreconceptionHealth/PreconceptionHealth_rev.
htm
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Interconception and Preconception Health Summit

• Interconception Care Project of California
  algorithms and patient education materials
• Relate maternal and infant health, birth
  outcomes, and interconception/preconception
  health
• Link to life course

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Strategies for Workforce Development

• Preconception health components and life course
• Provide action steps for integration into daily
  practice
• Pre/post test questionnaires to assess quality
  and effectiveness of training
• Commitment cards to motivate and suggest
  activities

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• Los Angeles County
• Department of Public Health
• Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Programs
• Giannina Donatoni, M.T.(A.S.C.P.), Ph.D.
• gdonatoni_at_ph.lacounty.gov