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Public Health Practice: Evaluating the Impact of Quality Improvement

September 30, 2013 | Program Results Report

Thirteen health departments implemented 32 quality improvement (QI) projects and worked with evaluators to assess the results, gather lessons, and build evidence on the use of QI in public health and as a tool to prepare for accreditation.

Central Valley, Calif.

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Central Valley, Calif. community is among 50 sites making changes in national initiative to prevent obesity.

Stimulating Public Health Improvement in Complex and Constrained Delivery Systems

December 19, 2012 | Journal Article

A series of studies examine how public health decision-makers are responding to accreditation, quality improvement, and public reporting initiatives amid the ongoing fiscal pressures.

Highest-Value Preventive Services Save Billions if Applied to 90 Percent of U.S. Population

June 12, 2012 | Program Results Report

Researchers at the Partnership for Prevention conducted research to identify high-value evidence-based clinical and community preventive services.

Identifying Effective Catalysts for Action Toward Community Health Improvement in Underserved Communities in Wisconsin

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.

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.

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)

July 1, 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.

County Health Rankings

February 10, 2010 | Report/Video

University of Wisconsin/RWJF project ranks counties on how healthy people are and how long they live.

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