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October 30, 2012 | Program Result
From 2006 to 2010, Common Ground, helped 31 state and local public health agencies improve their information systems and their system performance in order to meet the challenges of bio terrorism, potential pandemics, and chronic disease.
August 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This study found that mortality rates fell between 1.1 percent and 6.9 percent for each 10 percent increase in local public health spending.
October 1, 2010 | Program Result
The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) fosters networking and collaboration among public health institutes and their governmental and other partners. It launched this project to strengthen the nation's public health institutes.
February 18, 2010 | Program Result
The National Association of County and City Health Officials developed a common operational definition of a local health department that reflects a shared understanding of what people in any community can reasonably expect.
May 30, 2009 | Program Result
In early 2006, ASTHO (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials) began the Public Health Law and Policy Initiative to address the needs of state health officials related to law and legislative matters.
December 19, 2008 | Program Result
Staff at the Association of Public Health Laboratories led public health laboratory leaders in developing a strategic planning process and a strategic plan to assure competent, sustainable public health laboratory leadership.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
The Public Health Foundation contracted with each of the three associations that comprised the Joint Council of Governmental Public Health Agencies to examine the role of public health agencies in the face of increasing dominance by managed health care organizations.
January 1, 1999 | Program Result
This 1996-1998 project compared the health agency enabling statutes from 50 states and one territory and mission statements from 42 states and one territory with the standard of practice held by professionals in the field.
August 28, 2008 | Program Result
Researchers explored ways to define and measure the value of governmental public health systems through a literature review and interviews with 46 public health practitioners, policy-makers and academics.
June 1, 2012 | Report
The Transforming Public Health project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and convened by RESOLVE, tasked a small group of public health thought leaders with developing guidance for public health officials and policy-makers in prio ...