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Estimating Medical Cost Offsets Attributable To Public Health Spending, Glen Mays
Estimating Medical Cost Offsets Attributable To Public Health Spending, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
BACKGROUND: Policy strategies for reforming the U.S. health care system to control costs and improve health outcomes include the possibility of expanded support for public health activities that are designed to prevent disease and promote health on a population-wide basis. These activities include efforts to monitor and report on community health status, investigate and control disease outbreaks, educate the public about health risks and prevention strategies, develop and enforce laws and regulations to protect health, and inspect and assure the safety and quality of water, food, air and other resources necessary for health. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act …
Mprove Measure Submission Form, Glen P. Mays
Mprove Measure Submission Form, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
This instrument allows participating public health PBRN networks to submit candidate measures for the Multi-Network Practice and Outcome Variation Examination (MPROVE) study.
Mprove Call For Measures Of Public Health Service Delivery, Glen P. Mays
Mprove Call For Measures Of Public Health Service Delivery, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
Participating public health PBRN networks are invited to submit candidate measures of public health service delivery for use in the multi-network MPROVE study (Multi-Network Practice and Outcome Variation Examination Study).
The Science Of Public Health Practice: Using Pbrns For Delivery System Research In Public Health Settings, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
PBRN research tests strategies for improving the delivery of services that promote health and prevent disease and injury on a population-wide basis.
Estimating Qi Return On Investment In Public Health, Glen Mays
Estimating Qi Return On Investment In Public Health, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
This session reviews methods for estimating the economic impact of quality improvement strategies in public health.
Mprove Selection Criteria For Public Health Service Delivery Measures, Glen P. Mays
Mprove Selection Criteria For Public Health Service Delivery Measures, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
This document describes criteria that will be used to select measures of public health service delivery for the Multi-Network Practice and Outcome Variation Examination (MPROVE) Study.
Investing In A Healthier Future: Iom Dissemination Workshop, Glen Mays
Investing In A Healthier Future: Iom Dissemination Workshop, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
This session discusses strategies for implementing new financing strategies and funding mechanisms for public health services.
Patterns Of Interaction In Public Health Research Networks: Insight From Network Analysis, Glen Mays
Patterns Of Interaction In Public Health Research Networks: Insight From Network Analysis, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
OBJECTIVES: Studies from the past three decades have found evidence of wide variation in public health practices and policies across states and communities despite an expanding evidence base of efficacious public health strategies, suggesting gaps in implementation and translation processes. Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) are expected to accelerate research participation and translation. This study uses social network analysis methods with twelve Public Health PBRNs to study processes influencing the implementation and translation of research within diverse public health settings. DATA and METHODS: A cross-sectional network analysis survey was validated and fielded with participants in two cohorts of public health PBRNs …
Using State And Local Health Survey Data To Advance Practice-Based Research, Glen Mays
Using State And Local Health Survey Data To Advance Practice-Based Research, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
State and local health survey data can be used to evaluate the implementation and impact of public health delivery innovations in real-world practice settings.
Harnessing The Potential Of Comparative Effectiveness Research And Delivery System Innovation Through Practice-Based Research, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Testing delivery system innovations in health care and public health allows the practice-based research enterprise to lead the way toward gains in health and economic efficiency.
Estimating Medical Cost Offsets Attributable To Public Health Spending, Glen Mays
Estimating Medical Cost Offsets Attributable To Public Health Spending, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Uncertainty about the magnitude and timing of economic returns associated with spending on public health services has contributed to policy debates about the optimal role of the federal government in financing these services.
Public Health Spending, Preventable Outcomes, And Medical Cost Offsets: Questions For Health Reform, Glen Mays
Public Health Spending, Preventable Outcomes, And Medical Cost Offsets: Questions For Health Reform, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Uncertainty continues to surround the health and economic effects that can be expected from increased federal spending on public health and prevention strategies. Recent research provides some insight into the question of whether spending on public health strategies can offset the need for future spending on medical care.
Overview Of The National Longitudinal Survey Of Public Health Systems, Glen Mays
Overview Of The National Longitudinal Survey Of Public Health Systems, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Since 1998, researchers have followed a nationally representative cohort of U.S. communities to examine the types of public health activities performed within the community, the range of organizations contributing to each activity, and the perceived effectiveness of each activity in addressing community needs. This information, obtained through a validated survey of local public health officials, provides an in-depth view of the structure and function of local public health delivery systems and how these systems evolve over time. Originally conducted with support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems (NLSPHS) was …
National Longitudinal Survey Of Public Health Systems Instrument, Glen Mays
National Longitudinal Survey Of Public Health Systems Instrument, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
No abstract provided.
Current Research Projects Of The Public Health Pbrn Program, Glen P. Mays
Current Research Projects Of The Public Health Pbrn Program, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Program supports research on the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services using the infrastructure of practice-based networks (PBRNs). A Public Health PBRN brings multiple public health agencies into collaboration with an academic research partner to design and conduct studies in real-world practice settings. The program supports research through several different mechanisms, including (1) large-scale Research Implementation Awards (RIAs) conducted by established networks; (2) Quick-Strike Research Fund (QSRF) awards that support short-term, time-sensitive studies on emerging issues; and (3) supplemental Research Acceleration and Capacity Expansion (RACE) awards designed to …
Driving Qi With Research: Findings From Public Health Pbrns, Glen Mays
Driving Qi With Research: Findings From Public Health Pbrns, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Public health agencies are increasingly experimenting with quality improvement (QI) strategies designed to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of their efforts. Does QI work in public health, and if so for whom and under what circumstances? What QI strategies work best for which types of public health process failures, and at what cost? Research underway through the Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRN) Program is examining these types of questions to build an evidence base for public health QI.
Overview Of The Public Health Pbrn Program, Glen Mays
Overview Of The Public Health Pbrn Program, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
The Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Program is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that supports the development of research networks for studying the comparative effectiveness, efficiency and equity of public health strategies deployed in real-world practice settings. A practice-based research network (PBRN) brings multiple public health agencies together with research partners to design and implement studies of population-based strategies that prevent disease and injury and promote health. Participating practitioners and researchers collaborate to identify pressing research questions of interest, design rigorous and relevant studies, execute research effectively, and translate findings rapidly into practice. As such, PBRNs …
The Science Of Public Health Delivery: Evidence, Uncertainties & Research Needs, Glen Mays
The Science Of Public Health Delivery: Evidence, Uncertainties & Research Needs, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Policy initiatives to reform the nation's health system increasingly recognize the need to incorporate public health and prevention strategies. The nation's delivery system for public health, however, varies widely across states and communities in its structure, authority, and capabilities. This session examines research from the growing field of public health services and systems research to identify directions for improving public health delivery.
Estimating The Value Of Public Health Services & Systems: Evidence, Uncertainties, And Research Needs, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
The Affordable Care Act authorized the largest expansion in federal funding for public health services and delivery systems in decades. These provisions, designed to support programs and services that promote health and prevent disease and injury on a population-wide basis, remain controversial because of uncertainties regarding their effectiveness in improving health and constraining medical cost growth. This session examines a series of recent studies to shed light on the health and economic value of spending on public health.
Disparities Research In Public Health Pbrns, Glen Mays
Disparities Research In Public Health Pbrns, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Public health agencies are well positioned within the health system to play key roles in addressing oral health issues on a population-wide basis, However, current evidence reveals wide geographic variation in the delivery of public health interventions for oral health promotion. This session explores the factors contributing to this variation, and it highlights studies underway through the Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) to produce more and better evidence about public health delivery and impact.
Leading Improvement Through Inquiry: Practice-Based Research Networks In Public Health, Glen Mays
Leading Improvement Through Inquiry: Practice-Based Research Networks In Public Health, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
The field of public health has surged in public visibility and attention in recent years due to its potential to mitigate leading risks to human health and wellbeing. Advances in prevention research provide an expanding toolbox of programs, policies, and interventions to reduce health risks. As these advances occur, uncertainties loom large regarding how best to deliver efficacious public health strategies to the populations at greatest risk. The nation's local, state, and federal public health agencies—together with their peers and partners in the private and public sectors—represent a vast yet diffuse delivery system of actors charged, to greater or lesser …
Using Pbrn Research To Inform Policy And Practice, Glen Mays
Using Pbrn Research To Inform Policy And Practice, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
This brief provides examples of how findings from RWJF-supported research projects underway through the public health PBRNs and the larger field of PHSSR are being used to inform public health practice and policy.
Public Health Pbrn Network Analysis Survey Instrument, Glen Mays
Public Health Pbrn Network Analysis Survey Instrument, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
This survey instrument was used to collect data on research activities patterns of interaction within public health practice-based research networks (PBRNs).
Building A Sustainable Pbrn: Securing Ongoing Funding, Glen Mays
Building A Sustainable Pbrn: Securing Ongoing Funding, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Practice-based research networks require a diversified mix of funding to sustain their activities in research production and translation.
Quality Improvement Quick Strike Research Projects In Public Health Pbrns, Glen P. Mays
Quality Improvement Quick Strike Research Projects In Public Health Pbrns, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
The Quality Improvement Quick Strike (QIQS) research program provides research networks participating in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health PBRN Program with supplemental funding and technical assistance to conduct rapid turn-around, time-sensitive research studies that produce evidence about the effectiveness and impact of quality improvement (QI) strategies, public reporting initiatives, and accreditation activities in public health settings. Specifically, the program supports research studies that investigate the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and/or impact of three related types strategies designed to drive quality in public health practice: (1) QI tools and processes implemented in public health settings; (2) accreditation programs and performance standards …
Public Health H1n1 Response Research Protocol, Glen Mays
Public Health H1n1 Response Research Protocol, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
This research protocol was developed to analyze local variation in the public health response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak in the United States. The protocol was fielded in North Carolina and Kentucky through practice-based research networks (PBRNs) operating in these states.
Opportunities For Comparative Research In Public Health Pbrns: A Baseline Analysis Of Local Practice Settings, Glen P. Mays, Sharla A. Smith
Opportunities For Comparative Research In Public Health Pbrns: A Baseline Analysis Of Local Practice Settings, Glen P. Mays, Sharla A. Smith
Glen Mays
This anaysis describes the organizational and operational characteristics of local public health agencies participating in an initial cohort of five (5) public health PBRNs in the U.S. We examine variation in practice settings within and between PBRNs; compare practice settings to state and national norms; and identify opportunities for comparative research that can be conducted through PBRNs
Initial Research And Evaluation Concepts For Public Health Pbrns, Glen Mays
Initial Research And Evaluation Concepts For Public Health Pbrns, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Initial research and evaluation activities of the Public Health PBRN Program are intended to provide a descriptive characterization of networks during their early stages of development. This descriptive ‘network analysis’ will provide a baseline for tracking changes in network structure and function over time. The information generated through these activities is intended to be useful for a variety of audiences, including current grantees and others interested in developing or expanding public health PBRNs, as well as policy and practice stakeholders interested in using the evidence and insight to be produced through PBRNs.
Start-Up Activities For Public Health Pbrns, Glen Mays
Start-Up Activities For Public Health Pbrns, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Launching a successful public health practice-based research network requires a planned approach to developing the necessary infrastructure, relationships, and scientific direction.
Designing A Successful Pbrn In Public Health: Key Concepts, Glen P. Mays, Sharla A. Smith
Designing A Successful Pbrn In Public Health: Key Concepts, Glen P. Mays, Sharla A. Smith
Glen Mays
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