Challenges and Opportunities for Population Health Partnerships
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article describes areas of challenge for creating successful partnerships and opportunities for further exploration.
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Multisectoral Lessons from Healthy Communities
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The healthy communities movement can provide insight into population health efforts in the United States, particularly in the context of recent health care reform.
Observations on Incentives to Improve Population Health
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease provide a number of perspectives relating to how incentives might work for population health improvement.
Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH)
June 15, 2010 | Journal Article
How are we doing — and how can we do better? These are perhaps the most basic questions a community can ask regarding the health of its residents. In this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, seven essays describe the types of tools needed to measure and monitor our population's health.
Are Local Laws the Key to Ending Childhood Lead Poisoning?
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
Reducing and eventually eliminating childhood lead exposure through local policy innovations, is the main objective of this study.
Philadelphia's Lead Court Is Making a Difference
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
Philadelphia's Lead Court shows compliance for lead hazard remediation improvement.
Testing the Results of Municipal Mixed-Use Zoning Ordinances
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
This article tests a novel methodological approach to understand mixed use zoning (MUZ) ordinances and their impact on neighborhood walkability.
Public Health Law Research
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
This article reviews the field of public health law research and its progress in both methodological rigor and in identifying sources of data.
A Comparative Study of 11 Local Health Department Organizational Networks
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study represented 11 local health departments (LHDs) as groups of networks employees, tasks, and knowledge were points, or nodes within each network LHDs that appear structurally distinct likely share patterns of interactions among their organizational elements.
Improving Public Health System Performance Through Multiorganizational Partnerships
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The authors examined evidence and uncertainties concerning the use of partnerships to improve the performance of the public health system, with a special focus on partnerships between public health agencies and health care organizations.