Enhancing Patient Engagement and Hypertension Control Rates through Tailored Technical Assistance in Community Health Centers.

Tailored technical assistance enhances patient and provider engagement and hypertension control in community health centers. Addressing each center's particular needs, the approach described here focused on self-measured blood pressure monitoring, training, and skills-building, and strengthening community-clinic linkages. Systematic approaches to stakeholder engagement can enhance health care delivery and improve hypertension control rates.

Summary of the current operational epidemiological modelling landscape.

Through the National Center for Integrated Civilian-Military Domestic Disaster Medical Response, the Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response and US Northern Command have initiated a study to determine the requirements of a national operational epidemiological modelling process. During a public health emergency, decision makers often require a variety of epidemiological information, including prospective forecasts that can be made available in the form of models. Currently, there is no formal process across US Government agencies and departments to synchronise epidemiological models with response organisations.