Are you feeling lost and confused by all the health care reform discussion? Do you wonder whom to believe? Here's your chance to get the fact and learn how health care reform may affect you!

Susan Zahner, DrPH, RN, provides an overview of the development and major components of Wisconsin's Public Health Nursing Practice Model.

Claude Gilmore explores current trends in teenage pregnancy through information gathered from the Milwaukee Community. He assesses the impact of the problem, ranging from racial disparities to STI rates and occurrence of sexual abuse to the monetary cost of teen childbearing for the taxpayers of Wisconsin. Lastly, he explains current state action being taken to decrease teenage sexual activity and pregnancy.

The following presentations are part of this video: International Accreditation and Efforts to Improve International Health Care by Harold J. Bressler A Comparison Between Public Health Insurance Programs and the Regulation of Private Health Insurance in the US, Mexico and Canada: Could the European Union Serve as a Model for Integration? by Eleanor D. Kinney, JD, MPH

This video contains the following presentations: Cross-Border Health Care in the EU and the Organization of the Health Care Systems of the Member States EU by Johan Van De Gronden How Will We Know When We Have an EU Health Policy? by Scott Greer European Health Care Law and Social Solidarity - Accidental Death of a Concept? by Christopher Newdick

Large-scale media campaigns are associated with reductions in a variety of unhealthy behaviors, including cigarette smoking. The prevalence of smoking among US adults has steadily declined over the past 40 years. Despite the overall reductions in adult smoking, disparities in smoking rates by socioeconomic status (SES) have increased dramatically over this time period. This presentation proposes a conceptual model to describe how media campaigns might lead to differences in smoking cessation between groups, reviews literature on the effectiveness of media interventions to promote smoking cessation among low SES populations, and presents data from a longitudinal study of smoking cessation media campaign effects on smoking cessation in Wisconsin. There is considerable evidence that media interventions to promote smoking cessation are often less effective, sometimes equally effective, and rarely more effective among disadvantaged populations relative to more advantaged populations. Disparities in the effectiveness of media interventions between SES groups may occur at any of three stages: differences in meaningful exposure, differences in motivational response, or differences in opportunity to sustain long-term cessation. I conclude with thoughts on how communication theory could be used to reduce health disparities through policy changes that address social and structural determinants of health.

Earlise Ward, PhD, speaks on "Mental Health Disparities Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities: A Growing Problem" and Tracy Schroepfer, PhD, speaks on "Partners Building Bridges: Reducing Cancer Health Disparities in Wisconsin" both at the Littlefield Leadership Lecture at the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing.

Steven Wartman, MD, PhD, speaks on "Academic Health Centers: Opportunities and Challenges" at the Health Sciences Learning Center on September 13, 2007.

Beth DeLair, RN, JD, speaks on "HIPAA Protocol Review" at the Transitional Clerkship Orientation on July 5, 2007.

David Durenberger, JD, Senior Health Policy Fellow at the University of St. Thomas and chair of the National Institute of Health Policy (NIHP), speaks on "Health Care and Policy: Leadership for a Change" at the Health Sciences Learning Center on May 18, 2007.

Elizabeth Rigby, PhD, speaks on "Policy and Place" at the Health Sciences Learning Center on April 30, 2007.

Jaroslaw Waligora, MD, speaks on "How the European Union (EU) Envisions its Role in Governance" at the EUCE Health Conference on April 16, 2007 at the Health Sciences Learning Center.

Dr. Gregory McClain, a resident at the University of Wisconsin-Madison division of general surgery spoke on, The Great Divide: A look at Healthcare Disparity in the United States, at the Health Sciences Learning Center on March 21, 2007.

You don't have to wade through politics to improve the health care system. Find out what Timothy Harrington, MD, has to say about the Wisconsin Health Care system.

Representative Tammy Baldwin will answer student's questions on how federal politics can and will affect their future practices.

David Kindig, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, speaks on "What Was the Clinton Health Plan? What Was Wrong With It?".

Representative Chuck Benedict, a retired neurologist and current representative for the 45th Assembly district of Wisconsin, will speak about the politics of health care from the perspective of a physician.