DUA 4 Info Flyer

Helping MCH professionals identify and address health problems in their communities.

This UIC/IDPH certificate program focuses on how to use data effectively in managing health. It teaches how epidemiology is applied to programs and policy development, and provides skills-building for the translation of data into action in communities. The Academy is based on the curriculum developed by CityMatCH at the University of Nebraska and with CDC input, and presented by leading professionals from UIC School of Public Health, IDPH, the CDC and other national organizations.

Academy members work in teams representing communities. Teams must identify a project intended to advance health in their region.

If YOU have an idea about health for mothers, children or families in your community - WE will work with you:

To make your vision known

To find allies and collaborators

To assess the readiness of your community

To make the 4th DUA experience fit your agenda

Planning and Recruitment Begins with Assessing COMMUNITY READINESS FOR CHANGE

We'll send you some simple questions you can ask your colleagues.

Basics Activities and local meetings begin in SEPTEMBER

Some Past DUA Communities:

Fayette
Jackson Co
Macoupin
Stephenson
Whiteside
Winnebago
Macon Co
McLean
Region 4-DHS
Springfield
St Clair
Wabash Co
Kane
McDonough
Peoria
Southern Cook Co
DuPage
DSCC statewide

Some Successful DUA Projects:

Address an IPLAN issue for the county health department.

Create a coalition of service providers to deal with teen STD problems.

Increase community awareness of perinatal depression.

Develop a community wide oral health surveillance system

Increase awareness of women's need for folic acid.

Support a Community Health Worker Program to increase outreach and education about pregnancy and prenatal care.

Train personnel in Health-Trak PH Info system.

Build a "Partner for Health Commission."

Assure adequate dental preventative care and treatment to children.

Promote an effective smoking cessation program for pre- and post-natal women.

Increase proportion of women receiving prenatal care, increase walk-in pregnancy testing, develop referral network through existing MCH coalition.

Measure accessibility to primary, preventive and specialty medical care for KidCare/Medicaid eligible children.

Ron Markwardt
312-255-1134
drone@uic.edu

Data -> Knowledge -> Action