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C 2- 00 b 01 n cC A cn V to CA APPENDIX Implications of Seven Major Trends on Public Health Research, Practice, and Education Implications Trend Research Practice Education Aging of the population • increasing opportunities for all re- search addressing health issues in • need for identifying effective strategies for marketing health promotion programs • need for teaching students the epi- demiology and prevention of aging - elderly populations, including re- and activities to the elderly, especially related disorders search on the epidemiology of aging- older males" • need for teaching resources to meet related health problems12 • need for accessing new research findings the educational needs of older stu- • need to develop new and effective on disease prevention for the elderly, and dents returning to college for educa- interventions for promoting healthy translating those findings into effective tion in public health lifestyles among the elderly to im- programs prove quality of life and reduce the complications due to disabling con- ditions • need to determine the effectiveness of community -based approaches that focus on improving the health, func- tional status, and quality of life of the elderly'' Changing pat- terns in the • need to ascertain the most relevant risk factors and to identify effective • need for strategies to translate known pre- vention technologies to the highest risk • need for recruiting into the field of health into U.S. racial/ means of delivering culturally ap- segments of the population in culturally public and educational programs a more ethnically diverse ethnic com- position propriate interventionsl* • need to determine the effectiveness appropriate ways • need for providing effective cultural com- and multilingual population • need for increasing minority repre- and acceptability among ethnic petency training to practitioners sentation in faculty and student populations of programs and inter- • need for strategies to empower ethnically body of schools of public health's ventions that have been effective in diverse communities and help them take • need for providing cultural compe- the general population" action to improve health and conditions tency training as part of public of living health education's . • need for promoting among all popula- tions, especially the dwindling white ma- jority, a recognition of public health as a "common good" Changes in health care • new opportunities for collaboration between schools of public health • greater opportunity to "market" preven- tion, especially among managed care pro- • need in public health curricula for enhanced courses that describe the delivery sys- and managed care providers, espe- viders and HMOs" changing health care system focus tems cially in the areas of prevention pro- • need for developing prevention - related needs to include the system and the C 2- 00 b 01 n cC A cn V to CA