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Examining Universal Primary Healthcare Through Community-Based Initiatives, Donald E. Warden 
Kennesaw State University
Examining Universal Primary Healthcare Through Community-Based Initiatives, Donald E. Warden
Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research
This paper examines enacting community-based primary healthcare programs and initiatives. It looks at the weaknesses of past attempts, the successes of current attempts, and gives insight into ways everyday citizens can change the way the world does healthcare. There are social, economic, and political barriers as to why these programs are not enacted. Since 1978, Member states of the United Nations strive towards healthcare for all. The original 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata sets the bar at achieving this goal by the year 2000. Now in the 21st century, the world still battles inadequate healthcare. Nations continue to strive towards ...
Government Provided Health Insurance, Kristina Lambert, Ryan O’Connor 
Johnson & Wales University
Government Provided Health Insurance, Kristina Lambert, Ryan O’Connor
Academic Symposium of Undergraduate Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Implementing Lean Health Reforms In Saskatchewan, Gregory Marchildon 
McMaster University
Implementing Lean Health Reforms In Saskatchewan, Gregory Marchildon
Health Reform Observer - Observatoire des Réformes de Santé
Saskatchewan has gone further than any other Canadian province in implementing health system process improvements using Lean, a production line discipline that originated with the automobile industry. The goal of the Lean reform is to reduce waste and improve quality and overall health system performance by long-term changes in behaviour. Lean enjoys a privileged position on the provincial government’s agenda because of the policy’s championing by the Deputy Minister of Health and the policy’s fit with the government’s patient-centred care agenda. The implementation of reform depends on a major investment of time in the training and ...
Mandatory Flu Vaccines For Health Care Providers: A Step Too Far?, Asha Behdinan, Crystal Chan McMaster University
Mandatory Flu Vaccines For Health Care Providers: A Step Too Far?, Asha Behdinan, Crystal Chan
The Meducator
No abstract provided.
Overview And Guidance Documents For Public Health Pbrns, Glen P. Mays 
University of Kentucky
Overview And Guidance Documents For Public Health Pbrns, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
This brief provides an inventory of guidance documents and tools for use in developing, implementing, and evaluating practice-based research networks (PBRNs) in public health settings.
A Gap Analysis Of Mental Health And Addictions Support Services In Richmond, British Columbia — A Community-Based Research Study, Shelly Chopra McMaster University
A Gap Analysis Of Mental Health And Addictions Support Services In Richmond, British Columbia — A Community-Based Research Study, Shelly Chopra
The Meducator
Across Canada, mental health and addictions (MHA) has become an area of concern for health providers: it is estimated that one in five adults is affected by a mental illness or addiction. In line with the provincial Ministries of Health Services and Child and Family Development ten-year plan to address MHA in BC, a community-based MHA service gap analysis was undertaken in the present study in Richmond, BC. The primary objectives of this research project were to identify and validate gaps in MHA support services in Richmond based on the informed perspectives of MHA community service providers. In addition to ...
Canada's Aging Population: Should Students Be Worried?, Emily Milko, Sherna Tamboly McMaster University
Canada's Aging Population: Should Students Be Worried?, Emily Milko, Sherna Tamboly
The Meducator
No abstract provided.
The Value Of Public Health Financial Data, Glen P. Mays University of Kentucky
The Value Of Public Health Financial Data, Glen P. Mays
Glen Mays
Effective policy and administrative decision-making in public health requires reliable information on the amount of resources invested in governmental public health programs and how these resouces are allocated and used across the U.S. public health system. This session examines current and potential uses of public health financial data in the U.S., and considers expanded roles for research in informing policy and administrative decisions.
The Core Competencies For Public Health Professionals, Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice 
University of South Florida
The Core Competencies For Public Health Professionals, Center For Leadership In Public Health Practice
Florida Public Health Training Center
Core competencies for public health professionals are competencies that represent a set of skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for the broad practice of public health, as they apply to front-line staff, senior-level staff, and supervisory and management staff. We will describe the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals by defining the related key terminology, reviewing how the Core Competencies are designed for all public health professionals at the various stages of their career, and presenting the Domains of the Core Competencies.
Vital Statistics: The State Of The Public Health Pbrn Program, Glen Mays University of Kentucky
Vital Statistics: The State Of The Public Health Pbrn Program, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Public Health PBRN Program has continued to expand during the 2013 program year with new networks, new research projects, and expanded translation and dissemination initiatives. The program plays an increasingly powerful role in helping to transform the U.S. public health enterprise into a rapid-learning system for health improvement.
Testing Integrated Primary Care And Public Health Models For Prevention Delivery, Glen Mays University of Kentucky
Testing Integrated Primary Care And Public Health Models For Prevention Delivery, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Improving the delivery of evidence-tested prevention interventions to populations at greatest risk requires strong coordination between primary care providers and public health organizations. This presentation reviews current research on models for integrated delivery of primary care and public health services, and identifies emerging research needs and opportunities. Of particular interest are the roles that practice-based research networks (PBRNs) can play in building this evidence.
Cost Estimation Methods: Strategies And Examples For Public Health Services & Systems Research, Glen P. Mays, MIchael E. Morris, Florida Atlantic University University of Kentucky
Cost Estimation Methods: Strategies And Examples For Public Health Services & Systems Research, Glen P. Mays, Michael E. Morris, Florida Atlantic University
Glen Mays
This webinar reviews methods for conducting cost studies in public health settings, including strategies for estimating the financial and ecnomic costs of delivering public health services, and analytic approaches to identifying factors that influence delivery costs. These types of studies are of increasing importance to policy and practice stakeholders given the need for evidence about the return-on-investment (ROI) generated through public health delivery.
Public Health Roi: Evidence, Experience, And Remaining Questions, Glen Mays University of Kentucky
Public Health Roi: Evidence, Experience, And Remaining Questions, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Expanding the delivery of efficacious public health and prevention strategies holds considerable potential for improving health outcomes and constraining costs across the U.S. health system. Unfortunately, lingering certainties about the costs required to expand public health delivery systems and about the health and economic effects of such expansions has muted private and public support for increased public health expenditures. This lecture examines recent evidence from public health services and systems research studies that examine the health and economic value of public health delivery, and identifies remaining research needs for the field.
Monitoring Qi Maturity Of Public Health Organizations And Systems In Minnesota: Promising Early Findings And Suggested Next Steps, Kimberly J. Miner Gearin, M. Elizabeth Gyllstrom, Brenda M. Joly, Renee S. Frauendienst, Julie Myhre, William Riley 
University of Kentucky
Monitoring Qi Maturity Of Public Health Organizations And Systems In Minnesota: Promising Early Findings And Suggested Next Steps, Kimberly J. Miner Gearin, M. Elizabeth Gyllstrom, Brenda M. Joly, Renee S. Frauendienst, Julie Myhre, William Riley
Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research
Public health departments and systems are increasing investments in quality improvement. This paper presents methods used to identify a select number of items from a previously validated QI Maturity Tool as the basis for calculating organizational and system-level QI maturity scores that could be followed over time. Findings suggest that the abbreviated tool measures variation in QI maturity across LHDs, and differences in scores among divisions within a state health department. Minnesota has incorporated the abbreviated tool into an annual reporting system for the MN Local Public Health Act, thereby enabling stakeholders to monitor a system median score and distribution ...
Using The Qi Maturity Tool To Classify Agencies Along A Continuum, Brenda M. Joly, Maureen Booth, Prashant Mittal, Yan Zhang University of Kentucky
Using The Qi Maturity Tool To Classify Agencies Along A Continuum, Brenda M. Joly, Maureen Booth, Prashant Mittal, Yan Zhang
Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research
Major investments have been made to encourage health departments to implement quality improvement (QI) efforts. Yet, there are few empirically tested tools for public health agencies that assess these efforts and classify health departments along a QI continuum. This paper presents a new classification scheme for measuring QI Maturity in public health agencies based on a validated tool. The findings can be used to establish benchmarks, make comparisons and conduct future research linking QI and population health outcomes.
Rediscovering The Core Of Public Health, Steven Teutsch, Jonathan E. Fielding University of Kentucky
Rediscovering The Core Of Public Health, Steven Teutsch, Jonathan E. Fielding
Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research
The success of public health has been its ability to understand contemporary health problems, to communicate the needs successfully, to identify solutions, and to implement them through programs and policies. In the past 50 years, those successes can be attributed largely to control of infectious disease, improved maternal and child health, delivery of other personal health care services, and changes in behaviors, particularly smoking. Yet health is primarily a product of our social, cultural, and physical environments. To continue to improve the nation’s health and reduce disparities, public health needs to return to its historical roots and engage with ...
Accelerating And Expanding Knowledge Transfer In Public Health Settings, Glen Mays University of Kentucky
Accelerating And Expanding Knowledge Transfer In Public Health Settings, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Creating a "rapid-learning" system in public health requires mechanisms for the continuous exchange of knowledge and evidence among researchers, practice settings, and policy decision-makers. The open-access platform Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research provides a new mechanism for this exchange.
Final Set Of Public Health Delivery Measures Selected For The Multi-Network Practice And Outcome Variation Examination (Mprove) Study, Glen Mays University of Kentucky
Final Set Of Public Health Delivery Measures Selected For The Multi-Network Practice And Outcome Variation Examination (Mprove) Study, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
The Multi-Network Practice and Outcome Variation Examination Study (MPROVE) engages public health practice-based research networks (PBRNs) in the collection and analysis of measures of public health delivery across a large number of local practice settings in order to examine the causes and consequences of practice variation in public health. This document summarizes the final set of measures selected for the MPROVE study, including measures of the reach, volume, intensity, and quality of public health delivery in three domains of activity: chronic disease prevention, communicable disease control, and environmental health protection.
Building The Science Of Public Health Delivery: Advances In Public Health Services And Systems Research, Glen Mays University of Kentucky
Building The Science Of Public Health Delivery: Advances In Public Health Services And Systems Research, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Efforts to improve the health and economic performance of the U.S. health system require evidence about how best to deliver public health strategies that protect health and prevent disease and injury on a population-wide basis. The field of public health services and systems research is building a "science of delivery" in public health that complements the evidence-based practice movement in medical care.
Building The Science Of Public Health Delivery: Advances In Public Health Services And Systems Research, Glen Mays University of Kentucky
Building The Science Of Public Health Delivery: Advances In Public Health Services And Systems Research, Glen Mays
Glen Mays
Efforts to improve the health and economic performance of the U.S. health system require evidence about how best to deliver public health strategies that protect health and prevent disease and injury on a population-wide basis. The field of public health services and systems research is building a "science of delivery" in public health that complements the evidence-based practice movement in medical care.
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Glen Mays
University of Kentucky
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University of Massachusetts Medical School
Jonathan Fielding
University of Kentucky
Ross Brownson
University of Kentucky
Christopher Maylahn
University of Kentucky
Sallie Newell
Southern Cross University
Kenneth Ott
University of New Orleans
Rafi Chaudhury
McMaster University
Tia Powell
Georgetown University Law Center
Lawrence Gostin
Georgetown University Law Center
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Culture, Language, And The Doctor-Patient Relationship, Lucy Candib
Evidence-Based Decision Making To Improve Public Health Practice, Christopher Maylahn, Ross Brownson, Jonathan Fielding
Socio-Economic Status & Health Inequalities: A Review & The Implications For Health Promotion, Sallie Newell
The Closure Of New Orleans' Charity Hospital After Hurricane Katrina: A Case Of Disaster Capitalism, Kenneth Ott
Adoption And Usage Of Electronic Medical Records In Canadian Family Practice: Are Small Practices At A Disadvantage?, Rafi Chaudhury
Emergency Preparedness And Public Health: The Lessons Of Hurricane Sandy, Lawrence Gostin, Dan Hanfling, Tia Powell
Accelerating And Expanding Knowledge Transfer In Public Health Settings, Glen Mays
Prevention Of Mother-To-Child Transmission (Pmtct) Of Hiv In The Sub-Saharan Africa Region With A Focus On Uganda, Emily Franks
Parents' Treatment Of Their Children's Pain At Home: Pharmacological And Non-Pharmacological Approaches, Ayala Gorodzinsky
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