TAILIEUCHUNG - Evaluation of Distance Learning for Health Education

Rarely does education seek to measure its health initiatives by assessing health outcomes such as biometrics related to obesity, levels of disease transmission or the prevalence of substance use/misuse. Meanwhile the health sector, not surprisingly sees its role to reduce levels of morbidity and mortality in the community and to access the 5 to 17 year old population group with interventions (a term alien to the education system). These interventions would often be based on information transfer to achieve these goals. The HPS framework has encouraged close collaboration between health and education but there is still misunderstanding between. | Developing Human Resources in the Pacific Vol 14. No 1. 2007 Review Papers Evaluation of Distance Learning for Health Education Kelley Withy MD MS Shaun Berry MD Nicole Moore Sheila Walsh Med Leah Sekiguchi Med January Andaya BA Megan Inada MPH Corresponding Author Kelley Withy MD MS Director Hawaii Pacific Basin Area Health Center University of Hawai i John A. Burns School of Medicine 651 Ilalo Street MEB 4th Floor Honolulu HI 96813. Tel 808 692-1070 Cell 808 429-8712 Fax 808 692-1258 withyk@. All contributing authors can be contacted at the above University of Hawai i address. Abstract The Hawai i Unified Telehealth program is a distance learning health education program for rural communities created with federal grant funding from the . Department of Commerce and the National Institutes of Health. These grant funds helped develop a network of rural community learning centers that employ distance learning technologies to provide community-driven peer education to isolated areas across Hawai i and Majuro Republic of the Marshall Islands. In this article the authors briefly describe the development of the ongoing health education program and the results of outcome evaluation completed at the end of the funding period. PHD 2007 Vol 14 No 1 Pages 57 - 65 option is expensive and requires significant equipment training and coordination making it of limited use in rural communities. Introduction Significant geographic and cultural barriers to healthcare exist in the Pacific resulting in poor health in many underserved communities. For example Hawai i has the highest incidence of tuberculosis in the Native Hawaiians have rates of type 2 diabetes four times higher than the . standard populationb and mortality rates from diabetes eight times that of Samoans in Hawai i have extremely high rates of obesityd In addition in its Pacific Partnerships for Health report the Institute of Medicine IOM documented that life expectancies in the

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