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Current Research Projects Of The Public Health Pbrn Program, Glen P. Mays Dec 2011

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 Dec 2011

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 Dec 2011

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 Nov 2011

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 Nov 2011

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 Nov 2011

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 Nov 2011

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 …


Public Perception Study 2011: Mental Illness, Drug And Alcohol Abuse, Oscar T. Mcknight Oct 2011

Public Perception Study 2011: Mental Illness, Drug And Alcohol Abuse, Oscar T. Mcknight

Oscar T McKnight Ph.D.

This study examined the public perception of mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse. Field-interviews with participants occurred "on the street" with no difficulty. Participants offered ten general recommendations to professionals developing programs for mental illness, drug or alcohol abuse. The public stressed the professional responsibilities of physicians, pharmacists, counselors and teachers to prevent drug abuse.


Using Pbrn Research To Inform Policy And Practice, Glen Mays Oct 2011

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 Oct 2011

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 Sep 2011

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.


Evaluation Of A Tele-Education Programme In Brazil, Ashish Joshi, Chiehwen Ed Hsu Aug 2011

Evaluation Of A Tele-Education Programme In Brazil, Ashish Joshi, Chiehwen Ed Hsu

Chiehwen Ed Hsu

We evaluated a tele-education programme for primary care staff in Pernambuco State, Brazil. During 2008 and 2009, tele-education sessions occurred four times each week for one hour per day. The topics included public health, child and adolescent health, mental health and nursing. After each session, participants completed an evaluation questionnaire. A total of 73 municipalities and 141 health centres participated in the programme. There were 254 tele-education sessions scheduled during the 20-month study period; of these, 224 sessions were successfully performed and 30 were cancelled. We collected 3504 responses from the satisfaction survey. There was high acceptance of the programme: …


The Evolution Of College Health: A Story Of Education For Justice, Raymond Quirolgico Jun 2011

The Evolution Of College Health: A Story Of Education For Justice, Raymond Quirolgico

Raymond Quirolgico

Health has gained prominence in the public consciousness as a matter of security and equity. Therefore the need for the health promotion profession to orient itself in terms of social justice and not simply biomedical diagnostics is critical. This session will weave together a personal narrative of transitional journeys with original research about ACHA’s organizational evolution and cross-disciplinary theories and institutionally relevant practices to highlight the challenge of public health in this modern leadership context.


Assessing The Needs And Guiding The Future: Findings From The Health Needs Assessment In 13 Asian American Communities Of Maryland In The United States, Sunmin Lee, Chiehwen Ed Hsu Mar 2011

Assessing The Needs And Guiding The Future: Findings From The Health Needs Assessment In 13 Asian American Communities Of Maryland In The United States, Sunmin Lee, Chiehwen Ed Hsu

Chiehwen Ed Hsu

There is lack of in depth data on health needs of diverse Asian American communities. We conducted 19 focus groups in 13 Asian American communities in Maryland in 2007. We developed a moderator’s guide to collect qualitative data on health needs from 174 participants, and used MAX QDA to analyze data and code emergent themes. Cardiovascular disease related conditions, diabetes, and mental health were the top three health concerns. Weight concerns, cancer, arthritis, smoking, osteoporosis, and hepatitis B followed next. Many participants were not receiving preventive health service such as cancer screening due to a lack of access to health …


Quality Improvement Quick Strike Research Projects In Public Health Pbrns, Glen P. Mays Mar 2011

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 …


Handbook Of Health Social Work, Teri Browne Dec 2010

Handbook Of Health Social Work, Teri Browne

Teri Browne

No abstract provided.


Benefits And Barriers: An Exploratory Study Of Nephrology Social Work Field Education, Teri Browne Dec 2010

Benefits And Barriers: An Exploratory Study Of Nephrology Social Work Field Education, Teri Browne

Teri Browne

No abstract provided.


The Relationship Between Social Networks And Pathways To Kidney Transplant Parity: Evidence From Black Americans In Chicago, Teri Browne Dec 2010

The Relationship Between Social Networks And Pathways To Kidney Transplant Parity: Evidence From Black Americans In Chicago, Teri Browne

Teri Browne

No abstract provided.


Risk Communication And College Students: The 2009 H1n1 Pandemic Influenza, Francisco Soto Mas, Chiehwen Ed Hsu Dec 2010

Risk Communication And College Students: The 2009 H1n1 Pandemic Influenza, Francisco Soto Mas, Chiehwen Ed Hsu

Chiehwen Ed Hsu

No abstract provided.


Technological Iatrogenesis: The Manifestation Of Inadequate Organizational Planning And The Integration Of Health Information Technology., Patrick Albert Palmieri Dec 2010

Technological Iatrogenesis: The Manifestation Of Inadequate Organizational Planning And The Integration Of Health Information Technology., Patrick Albert Palmieri

Patrick Albert Palmieri

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) views Health Information Technology (HIT) as an essential organizational prerequisite for the delivery of safe, reliable, and cost effective health services. However, HIT presents the proverbial double-edged sword in generating solutions to improve system performance while facilitating the genesis of novel iatrogenic problems. Incongruent organizational processes give rise to technological iatrogenesis or the unintended consequences to system integrity and the resulting organizational outcomes potentiated by incongruent organizational–technological interfaces. HIT is a disruptive innovation for health services organizations but remains an overlooked organizational development (OD) concern. Recognizing the technology–organizational misalignments that result from HIT adoption is …