Cooperative Quarterly Spring2009

Cooperative Quarterly
Cooperative Purchasing Programs of Spring 2009
the California Family Health Council Volume III, Issue 2

From the Director’s Desk
Inside The days are growing longer, the sun grows a I encourage you to think as big as your
little brighter each day and smiles are allowed to imagination will go and share it with me. Email
This Issue me at linsmeyerl@cfhc.org. Together we can
crack through the frozen façade we have worn
for months in the vain attempt to keep the cold revolutionize both the message and the impact
from freezing our brain cells. Spring allows us of Public Health throughout this nation.
to thaw, to move again! We glide up and down
In many ways the nation as a whole is going
the hallways in tennis shoes after spending
through some much needed spring cleaning of
weeks plodding with knees locked, bundled in
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STD Risk Reduction Counseling in the Family
Planning Visit
Behaviors that put clients at risk for pregnancy may also put them at risk for STDs. When you talk
Calendar to clients about birth control, you have a perfect opportunity to offer them information about STDs.
of Events You can include risk reduction counseling in your visits and help clients reduce their risk of getting
an STD.

What is risk reduction counseling?
May 7 - 8 Risk reduction counseling is a dialogue between you, the provider, and your client. The goal is to
help clients identify risky behaviors and explore ways they can reduce their chances of getting an
IHA’s Health
Literacy: Bridging STD. Risk reduction encourages clients to modify their behaviors to involve less risk, rather than
Research & asking them to stop the behavior completely.
Practice
Risk reduction counseling involves two key parts: How can you include risk reduction in
Irvine, CA
your family planning visit? Since you
1. The provider asks the client questions and provides are already talking to your clients about
support. their sexual behavior, you may only need
2. The client decides what they can realistically do to to add a few more steps to help clients
decrease their chances of getting an STD. reduce their risk of getting an STD.
May 19 - 21
continued on page 7
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Data Mining for Health Care
Written by: Yoseph A. Kassaye (MSc. Information Science, MSc. Computer Science, BSc. With Honor)
The world is in data tide. Organizations collect massive amounts
May 28 of data from different sources: data centers, information centers,
data warehouses, and documentation centers. The volume of
CFHC: Human
data increases from time to time. Advancement of information
Sexuality
technology and introduction of internet aggravates this massive
Los Angeles, CA
increase of data.
At the same time organizations are in need of information to
predict their future, to make estimates, to perform clustering,
make descriptions and visualizations of their data.
June 4, 11 & 18
There is no exception for the health industries; they are processing
CFHC: Family
data to evaluate health related information, to get quality health
Planning
Health Worker care improvement and of course to predict their future.
Certification
One of the basic and widely used techniques for such kind of analysis is data mining. Data mining
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(sometimes called data or knowledge discovery) is a process of extracting hidden patterns from a
Los Angeles, CA data warehouse or data repository to provide information to the end users.

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CFHC:
Contraceptive
Data is a row fact (can be text, binaries, video, audio, images, numbers, symbols) stored in database
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as a flat file or manual repository. Data by itself does not have meaning - it is just a collection of facts.
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For example: numbers, agencies, sites, patients, users, ages, genders, ethnicity, and race are facts
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these data are information. For example: the number of family planning users by age and gender,
the number of family planning users by ethnicity and race, and the number of users by income level,
etc., can be considered information.
In this respect, we can consider data mining as a bridge between the unprocessed data and
meaningful facts (i.e. information).

Today, data mining is used by companies with a strong consumer focus - retail, financial, health,
communication, and marketing organizations. It enables these companies to determine relationships
among “internal” factors (such as price, product positioning, or staff skills), and “external” factors
(such as economic indicators, competition, and customer demographics). And, it enables them to
determine their impact on sales, customer satisfaction and corporate profits. Finally, it enables them
to “drill down” into summary information to view detailed transactional data.
With data mining, health industries could identify customer numbers and categorize patients based
on their age, sex, and income level. They can also use the predictive modeling feature of data
mining to forecast their future.
1 Yoseph A. Kassaye: Application of Predictive Data Mining Technology for the Central Statistics Authority- Masters
Thesis- Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa: Ethiopia, 2003
2 Greg Rogers, Ellen Joyner- Mining your data for health care quality improvement- http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/
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STD Risk Reduction Counseling, from Page 4

Start by taking a detailed sexual history.
You may already be doing this as part of your family planning visit. Make sure to include all
specific STD/ HIV risks in this sexual history.
Find out about the client’s:
• Number of sexual partners in the past 6 months
• STD history
• Last test for any STD
• Types of sexual activity
• Previous or current risk reduction behaviors
• Alcohol and / or drug use

Ask the client how concerned they are about STDs.
Follow this question by asking about specific behaviors. Ask them, “What do you think puts
you at risk for STDs?” Discuss any behaviors mentioned in the sexual history taking that
may also put them at risk.

Next, ask the client, “What are you currently doing to reduce your risk?” Be sure to praise
any steps that clients have taken to reduce their risk. You can then use this information to
correct any misinformation and work on problem solving with the client.

Help your client come up with a behavior change plan.
Ask them, “What could you do to reduce your chances of getting an STD?” Help them come
up with concrete steps they can take. These steps should be practical and realistic. Provide
options for the client and have them decide what they want to do. Be sure to consider your
client’s access to resources, support from family, friends and partners, and cultural values.
Some options for clients to think about include:
• Use male or female condoms every time you have sex.
• Use male or female condoms when you have sex with
someone besides your main partner.
• Use extra lubricant to lower the chances of getting tears
or small cuts. Have sex with only one person who is only
having sex with you.
• Have fewer sexual partners.
• Get tested regularly for STDs.
• Talk to your partners about STDs and how you can
protect yourselves.
• Don’t have sex when you use drugs and alcohol. That
increases the chances you’ll do something risky.
• Use only clean needles for drug use.
continued on page 8


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STD Risk Reduction Counseling, from Page 7

Provide support and make referrals.
Discuss potential obstacles with clients and help them come up with ideas to deal with these.
Make sure you have an updated referral list with
information on resources for:
• Mental health
• Domestic violence
• Drug abuse
• Needle exchange
• Food and shelter

Close the session by reviewing the client’s plan to reduce their risks.
You can ask, “What are you going to do to decrease your chances of getting a STD?
When are you going to do this?” This will help reinforce the client’s risk reduction plan. Let
them know you’ll check in with them about their progress at the next visit or by phone.
continued on page 9


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Listen to your clients.
As in any counseling session, it is important
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STD risk reduction is ultimately in your
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Can You Outsmart the STD Love Bugs?
By Deepi Brar, Consumer Health Interactive, a CVS Caremark Company
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One in five Human papillomavirus

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Men can catch yeast infections from What’s the clearest indication that you
women. True or false? have an STD?
• True a. An unusual discharge
• False b. Painful urination
c. A sore or wart
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partners, your risk of cancer may be
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b. Chlamydia
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catch another. True or false? d. All of the above
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• False
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a. Gay and bisexual men
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c. Infants

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