Abstract: Accreditation is one of the newest instruments in the public health system’s toolbox for reducing undesirable variation in practice, and perhaps also for promoting desirable variation.
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Public health services and systems researchers use a wide variety of data from many sources to investigate optimal ways of organizing, financing, and delivering public health programs and services. As a resource for PHSSR investigators, this page provides links to both longstanding and emerging data sources that could be useful for designing and implementing scientific studies.
Have additional data sources to recommend to researchers? Email us about them at info@publichealthsystem.org.
January 2, 2014
December 30, 2013
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This report provides a six-year summary of the work of the Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Program, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
December 13, 2013
Law Atlas-The Policy Surveillance Portal provides access to a variety of datasets that can be useful when conducting public health law research. Each dataset is accompanied by a protocol and a codebook.
December 11, 2013
The Project Tycho™ database aims are to advance the availability and use of public health data for science and policy.
December 9, 2013
The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program is a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
December 9, 2013
The goal of Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) is to provide an overview of key health indicators for local communities and to encourage dialogue about actions that can be taken to improve a community’s health.
December 9, 2013
The goal of Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) is to provide an overview of key health indicators for local communities and to encourage dialogue about actions that can be taken to improve a community’s health.
December 9, 2013
Learn about the Public Health Foundation's (PHF) TRAIN (or TrainingFinder Real-Time Affiliated Integrated Network), the nation's premier learning network for professionals who protect the pub
December 9, 2013
Learn about the Public Health Foundation's (PHF) TRAIN (or TrainingFinder Real-Time Affiliated Integrated Network), the nation's premier learning network for professionals who protect the pub