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8 Reports from the Breakout Groups and Final Discussion
Pages 65-70

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... (Breakout group 3) • Implementation of the Affordable Care Act and improved com munity monitoring and program evaluation provide opportu nities for prevention.
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... Workshop participants also discussed how to integrate systems within a broader public health approach. As David Hawkins, University of Washington, pointed out, considerations of public health do not reside only in public health departments.
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... happens has to be rooted in a shared place in a community," she added. This approach is currently being operationalized in health care under the Affordable Care Act, but "from a public health perspective, you'd want to look at a population to be the entire community," not just the people in a particular health care system.
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... As Marc Atkins, University of Illinois at Chicago, observed on this final point, the Affordable Care Act prioritizes chronic diseases, not children's health, but an emphasis on healthy development would affect not only short-term conditions, but also long-term and chronic conditions. PROGRAMS, PRINCIPLES, AND INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES The third breakout group, co-moderated by Wilma Peterman Cross, National Institutes of Health, and David Hawkins, looked at programs versus principles and at innovative methodologies.
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... Social context may be changed at an individual level, a family level, a community level, or a population level. Interesting experiments are under way, such as using Medicaid funds to address housing issues.
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