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March 6, 2012 | Journal Article
Ten years after the first-ever meeting of the Public Health Informatics Congress of the American Medical Informatics Association, stakeholders from both public health and health informatics met in 2011 to update the national agenda for public health ...
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.
November 10, 2009 | Program Result
Can the emerging technology of reality mining - which involves inferring human relationships and behavior by measuring physical and social activity - be used to improve public health and medicine?
September 1, 2003 | Program Result
A software development firm specializing in public health software studied the potential design for a centralized information system that would allow public health officials to combine data from separate databases holding a community's public health information.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A study evaluating communication between local health departments (LHDs) and health care professionals in Kentucky during the outbreak of influenza H1N1 found that communication between LHDs and physicians and pharmacists was inadequate.
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.
April 15, 2011 | Program Result
No longer are Health Impact Assessment practitioners handicapped by a lack of standards and practical guidance - they have a new website: http://hiaguide.org
February 10, 2009 | Program Result
InformationLinks stimulated the participation of public health agencies in emerging health information exchanges, which were developed primarily to serve the needs of providers of individual medical care services.
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
For almost a decade, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has supported major efforts in enhancing the field of public health services and systems research (PHSSR) as part of their larger efforts toward advancing the science and practice of pub ...