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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.
February 11, 2009 | Program Result
The County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency is the public health department in this California county of 264,000 residents that blends urban, rural and agricultural communities.
September 1, 2006 | Program Result
A pilot project called the Small Agency Building Initiative (SABI) sought to test the ability of RWJF to improve the business capacities of 19 small, nonprofit, community-based health and social service organizations.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Public health departments must address all factors in the community that are responsible for affecting health status.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In the U.S., related sets of health data are often kept in separate agencies. This guide to linking data sets presents successful examples from cancer research. Linked data systems lower research costs and avoid duplicating data within a given study.
December 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This paper, from a series commissioned by the health services research association AcademyHealth, discusses the future of the HSR labor market. Health services researchers can help control costs, improve quality and promote health.
May 12, 2009 | Program Result
In this 2006 to 2007 project, Michael A. Stoto, PhD, and a team of researchers and public health officials at RAND Corporation and elsewhere conducted case studies of five regional public health structures and then compared them.