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January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: The goal of this project is to promote broad-based community health improvement in underserved rural communities in Wisconsin through a low-cost health communication intervention.
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The article examines the validity of the Community Health Status Indicator (CHSI) to rank county health within peer strata.
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This study sought to quantify the gap between current public health spending and adequate public health spending in Minnesota and can serve as a conceptual model for other communities.
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.
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.
April 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Creating Entrepreneurial Managers