Theme: Advocacy - 'Unheard Voices' in Healthcare
Life is Precious
This translation of “Pulama I Ke Ola” gives life to the conference’s hopes to renew the belief that life IS precious and healthcare providers have a very special duty to provide the best care possible to those under their care and to foster health and harmony.
Unique Format
This conference combines a professional and a youth program with information on current research and clinical practices integrating holistic health concepts to improve healthcare. Special attention is placed on health issues impacting the health of people living in a multi-cultural milieu in Hawaii and throughout the world.
Environmental Health
Realizing that a person's health is directly linked to a healthy environment, the Conference responsibly using earth friendly practices. Biodegradeable products will be used as much as possible and no presentation printed handouts will be made.
Youth Program
The Youth Program exposes students to current healthcare issues and provides them with an opportunity to interact with healthcare clinicians on an informal basis. Teaching methods appropriate to the student population are used to help high schoolers to gain meaningful learning experiences.
Professional Program
The Professional Program is established to provide health practitioners with updates on current issues and trends affecting healthcare and to provide continuing education to meet credentialing requirements.
Pulama Goals and Objectives
The purpose of the 2009 Pulama I Ke Ola conference is to bring together a diverse array of individuals from all the islands of Hawaii; the approach in 2009 is to continue to build strong ties among the major Hawaiian Islands. With the topics relevant to public health, this conference continues ties with the HPHA which was established by its 2008 partnership with UH Hilo’s Pulama I Ke Ola. The conference serves the continuing education needs of multidisciplinary health professionals throughout the state, but, particularly, those who come from various public health sectors on the islands Hawaii, who would otherwise have limited access to continuing education offerings.
The overall goal is to improve statewide public health infrastructure and practices by sharing effective strategies and models of application, across all the islands, especially in rural and undeserved areas of the state. Of particular interest are exemplars of programs on the islands of Oahu and Hawaii that address health disparities through the use of effective education, research and strategies that may assist others in underserved areas to develop responses to their own local requirements.
The overall conference objects articulate with the proposed goal and purpose:
At the end of this conference, the participant will be able to:
1. Recall at least two access barriers to healthcare faced by special populations.
2. Describe at least two programs or services that are successful in responding to patient needs for access and navigating through the healthcare system.
CONTINUING EDUCATION STATEMENT
Medicine
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the University of Hawaii at Hilo. The APHA is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation statement: The APHA designates this educational activity for a maximum of 10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing
This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the American Public Health Association/Public Health Nursing Section Approver Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing center’s Commission on Accreditation.
DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
The University of Hawaii at Hilo strives to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all of its educational programs. All planners, faculty members, moderators, discussants, panelist and presenters participating in this program have been required to disclose any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest that may have a direct bearing on the subject matter of this program. This includes relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers or other corporations whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the presentation topic. The intent of this policy is to identify openly any conflict of interest so that the attendee may from their own judgments about the presentation with full disclosure of the facts. In addition, faculty is expected to openly disclose any off-label, experimental and/or investigational uses of drugs or devices in their presentation. Written disclosures are available upon request.
Date Number of Credits Possible:
Thursday |
May 21, 2009 |
5.0 Credits |
Friday |
May 22, 2009 |
5.0 Credits |
Total |
Two Days |
10.0 Credits |