Lessons Learned 2001: Profiles of Leading Urban Health Department Initiatives in Maternal and Child Health

摘要

The 12th annual urban MCH Leadership Conference was held in Nashville, Tennessee in late August 2001. Among those in attendance were more than seventy designated maternal and child health leaders from CityMatCH member city/county public health departments. Each of these leaders, emissaries of health departments in major urban areas, whose jurisdictions include one or more cities with populations of over 100,000 or greater, submitted a 'profile' outlining a current, local, urban MCH effort as a requisite for their federally subsidized attendance. Profiles submitted described a given activity, following a profile questionnaire which delineates budget, funding, expected outcomes, evaluation efforts, accomplishments, barriers to programmatic success, efforts to overcome challenges, key partners and overall lessons learned.