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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.

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November 3, 2013

Building Research Capacity for Public Health Services and Systems Research

September 30, 2013

During this health system evolution, and in the current fiscal climate, public officials are looking for solid evidence of what works to guide their funding and policy decisions. And researchers doing PHSSR want to contribute evidence to guide and assess this decision- making.

November 18, 2012

Context/Objective: Resource sharing, arrangements between local health departments (LHDs) for joint programs or to share staff, is a growing occurrence.

November 2, 2012

Abstract: 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 e