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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 18.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Health Promot. 2013 Sep-Oct;28(1):2–6. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.121116-CIT-564

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HAN Tools and Products to Enhance Capacity for Public Health and Aging Practice*

Product or Tool Title and URL
Health promotion practice
 Online training modules All modules available at: http://www.ncoa.org/chamodules
Series 1: Introduction to Health Promotion Programs
 QA: Assuring Program Quality
 Making the Case for Health Promotion
 What is EBHP?
 Assuring Program Quality: Reach and Adoption
 Assuring Program Quality: Fidelity
 Assuring Program Quality: Maintenance
Series 2: Making Effective Presentations
 An Introduction to Designing Slides and Delivering Talks
 Describing Your Evidence-Based Health Promotion Program
 Conveying Data About Your Evidence-Based Health Promotion Program
Series 3: Advanced Tools
 Creating a Business Plan for Evidence-Based Health Promotion Programs
 Monographs  Evidence-Based Healthy Aging Programming: Tools & Checklists: http://www.ncoa.org/improve-health/center-for-healthy-aging/content-library/CHA_Tools_Checklists.pdf
 RE-AIM for Program Planning: Overview and Applications: http://www.prc-han.org/docs/
 RE-AIM_issue_brief.pdf
Physical activity
 Physical activity issue briefs Each of the URLs begins with the stem http://www.ncoa.org/improve-health/center-for-healthy-aging/content-library/ and ends as noted below.
 Best Practices in Physical Activity: best-practices-in-physical.html
 Keeping Current on Research and Practice in Physical Activity for Older Adults: keeping-current-on-research.html
 Designing Safe and Effective Physical Activity Programs: designing-safe-and-effective.html
 Recruiting and Retaining Effective Instructors for Physical Activity Programs: recruiting-and-retaining.html
 Recruiting Older Adults Into Your Physical Activity Programs: recruiting-older-adults-into.html
 Motivating Participants to Be More Physically Active: motivating-participants-to-be.html
 Maintaining Participation of Older Adults in Community-Based Physical Activity Programs: maintaining-participation-of.html
 Physical activity guide Moving Ahead, Strategies and Tools to Plan, Conduct, and Maintain Effective Community-Based Physical Activity Programs for Older Adults: A Brief Guide: http://www.prc-han.org/docs/monograph.pdf
Mental and cognitive health
 Task Force on Community Preventive Services Task Force on Community Preventive Services: http://www.thecommunityguide.org/mentalhealth/depression-home.html
 Webinars and action briefs Webinars: http://www.prc-han.org/tools-cognitive#cogwebinars
Action briefs: http://www.prc-han.org/tools-cognitive
 Overcoming Stigma
 Evidence-based depression care management: IMPACT
 Evidence-based depression care management: PEARLS
 Evidence-based depression care management: Healthy IDEAS
 Money Matters: Funding and Sustaining Evidence-Based Depression Programming
 Evidence-Based Mental Health Practices for Older Adults: The Latest Data, Strategies and Funding Options
 National Public Health Roadmap to Maintaining Cognitive Health The Healthy Brain Initiative: National Public Health Roadmap to Maintaining Cognitive Health: http://www.prc-han.org/docs/healthybrainroadmap.pdf
Environment and policy
 Presentations, webinars, and action briefs Four modules, each with presentation, webinar, and action briefs: http://www.prc-han.org/tools-environment
 Module 1: Introduction to Environmental and Policy Change for Healthy Aging
 Module 2: Optimal Living Environments for Healthy Aging
 Module 3: Integrated Approaches to Mobility
 Module 4: Emerging Environmental Issues in Healthy Aging
 Audit tool HAN environmental audit tools and protocols: http://www.prc-han.org/tools-environment
 Environmental and Policy Change Clearinghouse Environmental and Policy Change Clearinghouse: http://www.prc-han.org/tools-environment
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QA indicates quality assurance; EBHP, Evidence-Based Health Promotion; RE-AIM, reach, efficacy/effectiveness, adoption, implementation, maintenance; IMPACT, Improving Mood-Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment; PEARLS, Program to Encourage Active Rewarding Lives for Seniors; IDEAS, Identifying Depression Empowering Activities for Seniors; and HAN, Healthy Aging Research Network.