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Designing A Successful Practice-Based Research Network In Public Health: Key Concepts, Glen P. Mays, Sharla A. Smith
Designing A Successful Practice-Based Research Network In Public Health: Key Concepts, Glen P. Mays, Sharla A. Smith
Health Management and Policy Reports
Successful public health practice-based research networks (PBRNs) will require organizational, financial, and intellectual resources that allow practitioners and researchers to mount relevant studies in real-world public health settings. This brief outlines characteristics likely to be important to the success of public health PBRNs, based on the experience of PBRNs in other practice settings
Finding Order In Complexity: A Typology Of Local Public Health Delivery Systems, Glen P. Mays, F. Douglas Scutchfield, Michelyn Bhandari, Sharla A. Smith
Finding Order In Complexity: A Typology Of Local Public Health Delivery Systems, Glen P. Mays, F. Douglas Scutchfield, Michelyn Bhandari, Sharla A. Smith
Health Management and Policy Reports
Public health decision-makers and researchers currently lack an evidence-based framework for describing, classifying, and comparing public health delivery systems based on their organizational components, operational characteristics, and division of responsibility. Related typologies developed in the health services sector have proven extremely valuable for policy and administrative decision-making as well as for ongoing research. Performance assessment, quality improvement, and accreditation activities are now blossoming in public health—adding urgency to the need for classification and comparison frameworks. This brief describes a newly-developed empirical typology for local public health systems and highlights its policy and managerial applications.