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Poster Presentation 1
9:00 AM to 9:55 AM
- Presenters
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- Monika Lactaoen Santos, Senior, Nursing
- Sally Sierra (Sally) Carroll, Senior, Nursing UW Honors Program
- Mentors
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- Betty Bekemeier, Nursing, University of Washington School of Nursing
- Melinda Schultz, Psychosocial & Community Health
- Session
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Session T-1G: Nursing
- 9:00 AM to 9:55 AM
Public health nurses and leaders who work for small, rural health departments (LHDs) face unique challenges that prevent the effective use of data to understand and address health equities. Among these is limited access to high-quality training in data utilization. In response, Solutions in Health Analytics for Rural Equity across the Northwest (SHARE-NW) is developing an online learning hub that contains accessible training modules for LHD leaders and practitioners to use and interpret data easier. The purpose of this study is to determine gaps in the quality of the trainings available to rural LHD practitioners in six top health priority areas: obesity, diabetes, tobacco, mental/behavioral health, violence and injury, and oral health, in order to improve population-level health equity. To date, approximately 30 training modules have been evaluated using 25 items from the Quality Standards for Training Design and Delivery tool by the Public Health Learning Network, and approximately 50 webinars have been evaluated using a set of 6 criteria. Next we will identify the patterns of gaps across the evaluation criteria and top health priority areas. Once patterns are identified, we will conduct semi-structured interviews with public health practitioners to assist in the interpretation of identified patterns. Preliminary findings suggest a lack of training activities that assist LHD leaders and practitioners to learn about data utilization in several to health priority areas. By identifying the patterns of gaps in available trainings, we aim to help busy, low-resourced rural LHDs utilize the highest quality trainings to improve their ability to interpret data and address health disparities.