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June 1, 2010 | Survey/Poll
Conducted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the purpose of this survey of local health departments (LHDs) was to advance and support the development of a database for LHDs to describe and understand their structure, function, and capacities.
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Research in public health services and systems, while multidisciplinary, largely happens in unconnected silos.
August 16, 2010 | Journal Article
A set of special essays in the September issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, a journal published by the CDC, explores a variety of techniques to motivate community leaders and others to improve the health of their residents.
July 1, 2008 | Report
This report from Trust for America's Health presents findings that a small strategic investment in disease prevention, proven community-based programs, could result in significant savings in U.S. health care costs.
June 15, 2010 | Audio/Journal Article
Researchers evaluate health metrics.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article discusses a definition of quality improvement in public health and describes a continuum of quality improvement applications for public health departments.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Quality improvement, along with voluntary accreditation, is critical to improving the performance of state and local public health agencies.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Public Health Foundation (PHF), like others, is sharpening its focus based on observations from its experiences in the field. This commentary is informed by the observations of nearly 200 QI consultations provided by the PHF and its consultants over the past decade.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The third phase of the Multi-State Learning Collaborative (MLC) is a three-year Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative designed to build quality improvement capacity within state and local health departments. This commentary provides a brief overview of the MLC, a methodological description of its evaluation, and preliminary findings.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article discusses the specific components necessary to achieve transformational change within public health departments as a means for creating sustained performance improvement and better outcomes in the health of the community. This article provides a review of transformation change concepts and application to public health departments.