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Accreditation And Standardization In Local Public Health, Glen P. Mays
Accreditation And Standardization In Local Public Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Reducing harmful, wasteful, and inequitable variation in public health delivery is a central objective for administrative and policy decision-makers in public health, and is embedded in the national accreditation movement. The challenge lies in accomplishing this objective while preserving the benefits of customization in public health delivery that accrue through tailoring and targeting of resources to unique community needs and risks. Public health services and systems research (PHSSR) can help determine the optimal balance between standardization and customization in public health delivery.
Strengthening The Evidence Base For Accreditation: Progress In Phssr And Pbrns, Glen P. Mays
Strengthening The Evidence Base For Accreditation: Progress In Phssr And Pbrns, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
With the launch of a voluntary national accreditation program for public health agencies, the field requires an expanding evidence base concerning which public health strategies work best, for which populations, and under what circumstances. The field of public health services and systems research (PHSSR) and practice-based research networks (PBRNs) are producing applied studies that can inform the future development and implementation of accreditation standards, and evaluate the impact of accreditation on the field of practice.
Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks: Creating Evidence For Practice, Glen P. Mays
Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks: Creating Evidence For Practice, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Powerful opportunities for learning from variation and change in public health delivery now exists across the U.S. health system. Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) provide the vehicles for harvesting evidence from applied, comparative studies -- and for feeding this information back into the delivery system.
Public Health Services & Systems Research: Concepts, Methods, And Emerging Findings, Glen P. Mays
Public Health Services & Systems Research: Concepts, Methods, And Emerging Findings, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
The field of public health services & systems research (PHSSR) increasingly is addressing the question of how to assess the value of investments in public health programs, infrastructure, and delivery systems. Progress in quasi-experimental research designs, measurement, estimation techniques, and data sources are yielding important insight.
Strengthening The Science Of Public Health Delivery Through Public Health Services Research, Glen P. Mays
Strengthening The Science Of Public Health Delivery Through Public Health Services Research, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
This session notes recent progress from the field of public health services and systems research (PHSSR) concerning the most promising directions for improving the delivery and impact of public health services, programs, and policies.
Analyzing Return On Investment In Public Health: Implications And Future Directions, Glen P. Mays
Analyzing Return On Investment In Public Health: Implications And Future Directions, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Return on investment (ROI) analyses of public health programs, policies, and services are being undertaken with increasing frequency to provide assessments of the value of these activities. This presentation reviews current initiatives and future directions for improving the quality of ROI studies and their application to real-world public health policy and administrative decisions.
Estimating Return On Investment: Approaches And Methods, Glen P. Mays
Estimating Return On Investment: Approaches And Methods, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Continuing fiscal constraints in the public sector and large-scale policy changes associated with health reform implementation in the U.S. are giving heightened attention to questions about the health and economic value of public health programs, services, and policies -- strategies designed to protect health and prevent disease and injury on a population-wide basis. This session provides an overview of approaches for conducting return-on-investment (ROI) analyses and related economic evaluation studies in public health settings in order to inform policy and administrative decision-making. New opportunities and resources created through CDC's National Public Health Improvement Initiative (NPHII) and RWJF's Public Health Practice-based …
Optimizing The Value Of Public Health Services: Lessons From Research & Practice, Glen P. Mays
Optimizing The Value Of Public Health Services: Lessons From Research & Practice, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Expanding the delivery of efficacious public health programs and policies holds considerable potential for improving population health and constraining the growth in health care spending. Achieving such expansions efficiently, particularly in low-resource settings, requires careful attention to interorganizational and intergovernmental relationships in public health delivery.
Vital Statistics: The State Of The Public Health Pbrn Program, Glen P. Mays
Vital Statistics: The State Of The Public Health Pbrn Program, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
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 P. Mays
Testing Integrated Primary Care And Public Health Models For Prevention Delivery, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
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.
Public Health Roi: Evidence, Experience And Remaining Questions, Glen P. Mays
Public Health Roi: Evidence, Experience And Remaining Questions, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
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.
Cost Estimation Methods: Strategies And Examples For Public Health Services & Systems Research, Glen P. Mays
Cost Estimation Methods: Strategies And Examples For Public Health Services & Systems Research, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
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.
Accelerating And Expanding Knowledge Transfer In Public Health Settings: Frontiers In Phssr, Glen P. Mays
Accelerating And Expanding Knowledge Transfer In Public Health Settings: Frontiers In Phssr, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
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.
Building The Science Of Public Health Delivery: Advances In Public Health Services And Systems Research, Glen P. Mays
Building The Science Of Public Health Delivery: Advances In Public Health Services And Systems Research, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
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.
Estimating The Health And Economic Effects Of Public Health Spending, Glen P. Mays
Estimating The Health And Economic Effects Of Public Health Spending, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Preventable health conditions account for more than 75% of the $2.7 trillion spent annually on health care in the U.S., yet less than 5% of these expenditures are devoted to public health programs and services that are designed to prevent and control disease and injury rather than to treat the downstream consequences of these conditions. Such limited expenditures in public health may contribute to the higher rates of preventable morbidity, mortality and excess medical costs experienced in the U.S. compared to other high-income countries. In this presentation, I update previous estimates of the health effects and medical cost offsets associated …
Public Health Expenditures, Public Health Delivery Systems, And Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Public Health Expenditures, Public Health Delivery Systems, And Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
This seminar examines a series of approaches for estimating the health and economic effects attributable to public health expenditures in the U.S., along with a novel method for estimating economies of scale and scope in the delivery of public health services. The use of instrumental-variables techniques and network analytic methods are described in these research approaches.