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February 16, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Now more than ever public health officials and policy-makers need to make smart decisions about where to invest our limited public health resources, and public health services and systems research helps to uncover the data that points the way to sou ...
February 16, 2012 | New Public Health Post
This week’s final plenary at the AcademyHealth annual National Health Policy Conference focused on the media’s role in health policy and featured Austin Frakt of The Incidental Economist (which is supported in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat ...
February 15, 2012 | New Public Health Post
AcademyHealth’s Public Health Systems Research Interest Group held a breakfast briefing yesterday, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, during their National Health Policy Conference this week. The session, “Evidence Matters: Research Fi ...
February 14, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Dr. Sanchez shares his perspective on the intersection and potential opportunities for collaboration between public health and health care.
January 1, 2012 | Toolkit
This presentation provides a brief overview of public health services research (PHSR). The presenters discuss Examining Local Health Department Resources and Systems for Seniors (ELDHRS) survey design as a potential model for complex public health s ...
December 16, 2011 | New Public Health Post
For the fifth year, close to 400 researchers, practitioners and policymakers will come together in Lexington, Ky., to share innovative ideas on how to improve the public health system. The conference will take place April 17 to April 19, 2012, and w ...
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) stores almost 4 million dried blood spot specimens (DBS) in the Michigan Neonatal Biobank. DBS are collected from newborns under a mandatory public health program to screen for serious conditions.
November 3, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Numerous public health leaders across the country credit the Multi-State Learning Collaborative (MLC) for establishing a vision of a quality-improvement (QI) culture in the field and helping pave the way for the launch this year of national, volunta ...
August 18, 2011 | Program Result Report
A research team at the University of Southern Mississippi with collaborators at other universities, increased and disseminated knowledge and information about state and local public health financing and its impact on population health.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study represented 11 local health departments (LHDs) as groups of networks employees, tasks, and knowledge were points, or nodes within each network LHDs that appear structurally distinct likely share patterns of interactions among their organizational elements.