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November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article discusses the current state of public health finance research through a review of public health finance literature, chronicles important lessons learned from public health finance research to date, discusses the challenges faced by thos ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Public health practitioners and researchers often refer to state public health systems as being centralized, decentralized, shared, or mixed. These categories refer to governance of the local public health units within the state and whether they ope ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This study examined the level of involvement by local health departments (LHDs) in practice-based research (PBR) activities, and determined factors associated with variation in such involvement. Large public health agencies may be overrepresented, r ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
More than a decade has passed since a conceptual framework was introduced to guide public health services and systems research (PHSSR) and elucidate the relationships associated with system performance. Since then, research has primarily focused on ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This descriptive study illustrates that emerging practice-based research networks can successfully collaborate on small-scale research projects with immediate application for systems development. Study findings are being used by local public health ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Resource sharing, arrangements between local health departments (LHDs) for joint programs or to share staff, is a growing occurrence. The post-9/11 influx of federal funding and new public health preparedness responsibilities dramatically increased ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Regionalization of local public health capacity is a critical emerging issue for public health accreditation and quality improvement. This study demonstrated the utility of regionalization across traditional local geopolitical boundaries.
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The objective of this article was to describe factors that contribute to successful translation of science into evidence-based practices and their implementation in public health practice agencies, based on a review of the literature and evidence fr ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The North Carolina Division of Public Health established an innovative program in 2003 that placed public health epidemiologists (PHEs) in hospitals around the state to improve communication between hospitals and local public health departments (LHD ...
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This study examined jurisdictional, organizational, and structural characteristics associated with capacity to deliver 10 essential public health services (EPHS) in Massachusetts, a state where a majority of local public health departments serve sma ...