Journal of Public Health Management and
Practice
Volume 12, Number 5
Contents
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EDITORIAL
The Management Academy
for Public Health: Together We Can Make a Difference
William L. Roper
407
Management Academy for Public Health: Program
Design and Critical Success Factors
Stephen Orton, Karl E. Umble, Benson Rosen, Jacqueline McIver, and
Anne J. Menkens
This article describes the Management Academy for Public Health program and summarizes the results of on-going process evaluation, concluding with factors critical to the program’s success.
409
The Crucible of Public Health Practice:
Major Trends Shaping the Design of the Management Academy for
Public Health
James H. Johnson, Jr, Barbara J. Sabol, and Edward L. Baker, Jr
The authors describe the demographic, socioeconomic, and political trends reshaping public health in the 1990s and today that went into the design of the Management Academy for Public Health.
419
Creating the Management Academy for Public
Health: Relationships Are Primary
Edward L. Baker, Jr, Claude Earl Fox, Susan B. Hassmiller, Barbara
J. Sabol, and C. Charles Stokes
This article describes the process by which the program’s initial sponsors, two federal agencies (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Health Resources and Services Administration) and three major health foundations (the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the CDC Foundation), worked together to create the Management Academy for Public Health.
426
The UNC Management Academy for Public Health:
How the UNC School of Public Health and the Kenan-Flagler Business
School Created a Winning Partnership
Janet E. Porter, Stephen Orton, James H. Johnson, Jr, and Karl E.
Umble
Porter et al describe the academic partnership that created the Management Academy and list success factors of partnering across disciplines to create such a program.
430
Evaluating the Impact of the Management
Academy for Public Health: Developing Entrepreneurial Managers
and Organizations
Karl E. Umble, Stephen Orton, Benson Rosen, and Judith Ottoson
Umble et al summarize results from the impact evaluations of the Management Academy for Public Health.
436
Creating Community-based Access to Primary
Healthcare for the Uninsured Through Strategic Alliances and
Restructuring Local Health Department Programs
E. Shirin L. Scotten and Ann C. Absher
Scotten and Absher describe how a team from the Wilkes County, North Carolina, health department used a Management Academy–developed business plan to create a sustainable program to provide primary healthcare to the uninsured.
446
Addressing the Problem of Pet Overpopulation:
The Experience of New Hanover County Animal Control Services
Jean McNeil and Elisabeth Constandy
McNeil and Constandy describe the process of creating a successful business plan to build an on-site spay/neuter facility at the New Hanover County Animal Protection Services.
452
A Sustainable Behavioral Health Program
Integrated With Public Health Primary Care
Susan Mims
This article describes the creation of a fully integrated behavioral health program at the Buncombe County Health Department, which has now joined forces with other partners in the state to address statewide policy changes in support of such programs.
456
Peer Power: How Dare County, North Carolina,
Is Addressing Chronic Disease Through Innovative Programming
Anne B. Thomas and Ellie Ward
Thomas and Ward describe an innovative school-based program to educate students about health behaviors related to chronic disease.
462
The Management Academy for Public Health:
The South Carolina Experience
Dorothy A. Cumbey and Lu Anne Ellison
This article provides an overview of how South Carolina has trained its public health workforce at the Management Academy for Public Health and modeled its own preparedness training program after the Management Academy.
468
Developing a Web-based Data Mining Application
to Impact Community Health Improvement Initiatives: The Virginia
Atlas of Community Health
Jeffrey L. Wilson
Wilson describes how training at the Management Academy for Public Health informed the creation of an important health data resource tool in Virginia.
475
COMMENTARY
The Management
Academy for Public Health: Transforming the Business of Healthcare
Bertram E. Walls
This commentary describes how the Management Academy for Public Health can be used to introduce entrepreneurial concepts in the public health system.
480
Synergies Between Public Health and Management
David G. Altman
Altman views the Management Academy from the perspective of the creativity and innovations literature.
482
Business Practice: A Key to Effective Public
Health Practice
Stephanie B. C. Bailey
This commentary describes how Nashville’s Metro Public Health Department’s early adoption of business practices has kept it on the cutting edge of public health practice.
485
Public Health Management: Out of the Shadows
Bernard J. Turnock
This commentary describes how the Management Academy for Public Health has served the public health workforce through a focus on developing managers.
487
THE MANAGEMENT
MOMENT
Business Planning for
Public Health From the North Carolina Institute for Public
Health
Stephen Orton and Anne J. Menkens
489
MEDICAL
AND PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION
Public Health Practice
and Academic Medicine: Promising Partnerships
Regional Medicine Public Health Education Centers—Two
Cycles
Rika Maeshiro
493
The editors acknowledge the contribution of Anne Menkens for her superb editorial assistance and extraordinary support in developing this issue. Lloyd F. Novick, Edward L. Baker, James H. Johnson, and Barbara J. Sabol.
Dedication During her more than 20 years of public health career, Doris M. Barnette personified the great public health manager. Although a social worker by training, she was involved in public health management through her work with local, state, and federal agencies as well as with NGOs. Her vision helped shape development of the UNC Management Academy for Public Health and her involvement helped guide its progress in the early years. Doris began her career with the US Public Health Service as a national health service assignee with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and rose to be the Deputy State Health Officer for the state of Alabama and Principal Advisor to the Administrator of the federal Health Resources and Services Administration. Her wit, insight, and practical approach to everyday public health problems will be greatly missed by the public health community. |