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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.
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Central Valley, Calif. community is among 50 sites making changes in national initiative to prevent obesity.
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.
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.
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.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article describes areas of challenge for creating successful partnerships and opportunities for further exploration.
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.
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.
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.
February 10, 2010 | Report/Video
University of Wisconsin/RWJF project ranks counties on how healthy people are and how long they live.