Archive
2002 to 2007

WHAT WE CAN DO LOCALLY

Community Working Papers and Case Study

Sonoma State University Community-Campus Initiative on the Sonoma County Health Care Crisis in partnership with the California Program on Access to Care, California Policy Research Center, University of California Office of the President

Table of Contents

• Most Recent Research Reports
• Introduction
• Prevention
• Data Analysis
• Humane Cost-Containment
• Data Analysis/Humane Cost-Containment
• Ecological Dangers
• Prescription Drugs
• Community Alliances
• Stakeholder Dialogue
• Appendices

Most Recent Research Reports

• Academic Proceedings from the Final Cooperage Conference, March 2007
  
• Increasing Access to Care for the Medically Underserved: Four County Models
  The Address in PowerPoint outline
  The Manuscript of the Address in Word Format
  Annette Gardner Ph.D., MPH
  
• Improving Access to Health Care: Sonoma County Initiatives
  Julie Kawahara
  
• Addressing Health Care Access in Sonoma County -- 2007-08 (PowerPoint)
  Gil Ojeda
  

Introduction

• Gil Ojeda: Sonoma County as Ground Zero in the health care crisis
• Graphic: Health Care Crisis Response Methods
• Developing A Sonoma County Perspective
• What We Can Do Locally - Ideas from the SSU Initiative Conferences
• A Brief Case Study on a More Systemic Approach to the Health Care Crisis in Sonoma County

Prevention

1. "Alleviate the Downstream Health Care Crisis with Upstream Health Action" by George R. Flores, MD, MPH
   
2. Prevent the Crisis (Power Point); Bob Dozor, M.D.

• 26 priority ideas from the first dinner meeting October 2005
• Prevention Slides (powerpoint)
• "Section I. Coordinate Primary and Secondary Prevention and Coalition Building" from "What We Can Do Locally - Ideas From the SSU Initiative Conferences"
• Breast Cancer Prevention - Reducing risk through nutrition, lifestyle & environmental action (paper by Dr. Bob Dozor, California Institute of Integrative Medicine & Integrative Medicine Clinic – Santa Rosa
• Prevention
  Moderator: Karen Taranto
  Panel: Michael Allen, Debora Hammond, PhD, Judy Coffey, R.N., Bob Dozor, M.D.
• "Prevention & the Healthcare Crisis" by Walter C. Willet, M.D., M.P.H.
• Easel notes from the first dinner meeting October 2005

• Excellent prevention website: New Spectrum of Prevention: A Model for Public Health Practice
  http://www.cchealth.org/groups/public_health/

Data Analysis

• "A Proposed Sonoma County Healthcare Data Project" by Gil Ojeda
• Ideas from the Dinner Meeting
• Data Analysis working group background
• Easel Notes: Dinner Meeting #1, October 2005

Humane Cost-Containment Project

• What We Can Do Locally - Developing An Overall Sonoma County Perspective - Ideas from the Initiative Conferences by Skip Robinson Ph.D., edited, added to, and critiqued by Adele Amodeo M.P.H., Georgia Berland M.A., Tom Moore, and Carolyn Epple Ph.D.
• 26 priority ideas from the first dinner meeting October 2005
• Five priorities from the second dinner meeting October 2005
• Cost Managing Actions for Public Schools (proposal developed following Sonoma County Public Schools' Day of Learning at SSU in Fall 2002)
• Cost Offset of Medical Care (article by Skip Robinson)

Ecological Dangers

• Section V from "What We Can Do Locally - Ideas From the SSU Initiative Conferences"

Data Analysis/Humane Cost-Containment

• Data Analysis/Humane Cost Containment Analysis #1
  Panel: Tom Moore; Bob Shirrell; Karen Taranto; Jack Burrows, MBA
  
  
• Data Analysis/Humane Cost Containment Analysis #2
  Panel: Tom Moore; Patricia O'Brien; Karen Taranto;

Prescription Drugs

• Section III from "What We Can Do Locally - Ideas From the SSU Initiative Conferences"
• From the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report: Opinion Pieces Examine Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Bill (www.kaisernetwork.org)

Community Alliances

• Successful Networking among Sonoma County Health Organizations
  Cathy Frey, MHA; Georgia Berland, M.A.; Jack Burrows, MBA; Patricia Andrews, M.A; and Marilyn Schlitz, PhD

Stakeholder Dialogue

• Graphic: "Major Stakeholder Groups Dealing with the Health Care Crisis in Sonoma County" Nick Papadopoulos and Skip Robinson
• Stakeholder Dialogue - small group - Art Warmoth
• Stakeholder Dialogue - large group
• Conference Easel Notes - Large Stakeholder Groups A and B