Preconception Care Recommendations A Columbus and Ohio Conversation

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Preconception Care RecommendationsA Columbus and
Ohio Conversation

• Carolyn B. Slack, MS, RN, Director, Maternal
  Child Health Division. Columbus Public Health

• Karen Hughes, MPH, Chief, Division of Family and
  Community Health Services. Ohio Department of
  Health

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CDC Recommendations to Improve Preconception
Health and Health Care

• Individual responsibility
• Consumer Awareness
• Prevention Visits
• Interventions for Identified Risks
• Interconception Care
• Pre-pregnancy Checkup
• Health Insurance Coverage
• Public Health Programs and Strategies
• Research
• Monitoring Improvements

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Richmond Kotelchuck
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Richmond Kotelchuck, 1979
Political Will
Knowledge Base
Public Policy
Social Strategy
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Magda Peck and Bill Sappenfield(a CityMatCH/CDC
partnership)
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CityMatCH EffectiveData Use Triangle
Data Analysis
Translation
Presentation, Politics Policy
Planning Programs
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Data / Knowledge

• Production of report Womens Health A Local
  Profile, Franklin County, Ohio
• Development of a Community Planning Tool for
  Increasing Access to Healthy Foods.

• Supporting statewide training on Perinatal
  Periods of Risk (PPOR) methodology
• Focus groups
• Supporting an MCH EPI course

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Social Strategy / Programs / Services

• Provision of integrated prenatal, perinatal and
  well woman / family planning clinical services
• Urban Farmers Markets
• Division focus on Internatal Care.

• Establishment of the Perinatal Data Use
  Consortium
• Birth Outcomes Initiatives
• Design an Interconception Intervention in the
  Birth to Three Program

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Policy / Political Will

• CPH , leadership support and participation in
  statewide coalition pursuing a Family Planning
  Waiver in Ohio

• Working with Medicaid agency on managed care
  issues
• Working with Medicaid to use PPOR data
  methodology with the Medicaid population
• Coordinating with Chronic Disease Prevention
  Program within ODH

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Some Final Thoughts(with help from Yogi Berra)

• Data / Knowledge
• I wish I had an answer to that, because Im
  tired of answering that question.
• Baseball is 90 mental. The other half is
  physical.
• Strategy/ Services
• I knew I was going to take the wrong train so I
  left early.
• In theory there is no difference between theory
  and practice. In practice there is.
• Policy / Political Will
• If people dont want to come out to the
  ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
• Its tough to make predictions, especially about
  the future.

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Thank you

• Carolyn B. Slack carolyns_at_columbus.gov

• Karen Hughes karen.hughes_at_odh.ohio.gov