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Aaron Wernham: First National Health Impact Assessment Meeting Kicks Off Tomorrow
April 2, 2012 | New Public Health Post
In response to burgeoning national interest in using health impact assessment (HIA) as a tool to factor health into policy decisions, the Health Impact Project and other leading health organizations will convene a first-ever National HIA Meeting thi ...
A Broken Promise to Our Children
November 30, 2011 | Report
A report on the states' allocation of the tobacco settlement dollars finds that of the $25.6 billion collected in tobacco revenue, only 1.8 percent—$456.7 million—will be spent by states on programs to prevent kids from smoking and to help smokers quit.
AcademyHealth and Public Health Services and Systems Research: A Q&A with Debra Perez
June 13, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Public Health Services and Systems Research is a featured topic at the 2011 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in Seattle this week. Additionally, the AcademyHealth Public Health Services Research Interest Group will soon be holding its tenth ann ...
AcademyHealth Annual Meeting: A Q&A with Lisa Simpson and David Colby
June 7, 2011 | New Public Health Post
What's the latest in health services research and current health policy issues? You'll be able to find out at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, which takes place June 12-14 in Seattle. The annual meeting has been the premiere forum for heal ...
AcademyHealth: A Q&A with Paul Erwin and Bridget Booske
June 15, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Public Health Systems Research is the discipline that examines the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services and the impact of those activities on population health. The AcademyHealth PHSR Interest Group, which has grown to ove ...
A Call for ACTTION
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In November 2008, a national workgroup released a call for ACTTION (Access to Cessation Treatment for Tobacco In Our Nation): An Action Plan to Address the Lack of Access to Tobacco-Use Treatment. This article is part of a special issue on tobacco cessation in the March 2010 edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Access to Conventional Medical Care and the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
January 1, 2005 | Journal Article
The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States has greatly increased during the past decade. Using survey data from the 2002 National Health interview Survey (NHIS), we show that adults who did not get, or delayed, need ...
Accreditation
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Public health departments play a critical role in our everyday lives, but until recently there was no nationwide system to ensure their quality and accountability. Accreditation establishes rigorous, measurable standards for quality and performance.
Accreditation: A NewPublicHealth Q&A with Georgia Heise
May 15, 2013 | New Public Health Post
Accreditation: A NewPublicHealth Q&A with Georgia Heise
A Comparative Study of 11 Local Health Department Organizational Networks
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.