Cost, Quality, and Value of Public Health Services

Delivery and Cost Studies (DACS)

• Public Health Delivery and Cost Studies in the San Joaquin Valley of California

• Determining the Cost of Select Core Services Across Colorado Public Health Agencies

• Cost Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity of Inspection Services throughout Connecticut's Local Public Health System

• Comparative Cost Study of STD Services in Florida

• Measuring the Costs of Implementing QI Initiatives and Examining the Variation in Costs of QI Implementation among LHDs in Nebraska

• Understanding Governmental and Non-Governmental Funding and Network Structures in Different Models of Public Health Infrastructure

• Determining the Public Health Costs of Tobacco Prevention and Control: A Comparison of 5 New Jersey Local Health Departments

• Optimizing the Use of HIV/STD Partner Services Strategies in New York State

• The Influence of Organizational and Community Characteristics on the Cost of Providing Mandated Public Health Services in North Carolina

• The Cost of Public Health Practice: Using PBRNs to Identify Delivery, Quality and Cost of Core Public Health Services in Ohio

• Costs and Cost-drivers of Providing Foundational Public Health Services in Washington State and Relationships with Structural and Community Factors

Dissemination and Implementation Research to Improve Value (DIRECTIVE)

• Improving the Reach and Effectiveness of STD Prevention, Screening, and Treatment Services in Local Public Health Systems

California PBRN & Alabama PBRN

• A Comparison of State Dissemination and Implementation Strategies on Local Health Department Accreditation Readiness and Quality Improvement Maturity

Colorado PBRN, Nebraska PBRN, & Kansas PBRN

• The Effects of Cross-Jurisdictional Resource Sharing on the Implementation, Scope and Quality of Public Health Services

Connecticut PBRN & Massachusetts PBRN

• Inter-Organizational Collaboration in Local Public Health Systems: Implications for Costs, Impact, and Management Capacity

Washington PBRN, Wisconsin PBRN, New York PBRN, & Oregon PBRN

Quality Improvement & Public Health Accreditation Readiness

• Analysis of Local Health Department Factors that Accelerate Population-Based Intervention Implementation and Support Success

• New York’s Integrated HIV/STD Field Services Program

• Comparative Effectiveness of State vs. Regional Approaches to QI in Public Health

• Regional Public Health Structures and Readiness for Accreditation and QI

• Measuring The QI Continuum and Correlates in Public Health Settings

• Accreditation of Rural Health Departments: Social, Economic, Cultural, and Regional Factors

• Public Health QI and Evidence-Based Diabetes Prevention

• Quality Improvement Collaboratives for Small and Rural Public Health Settings

• Public Health Accreditation and Quality Improvement Philosophy

• Taxonomy of QI Methods, Techniques, and Results in Public Health

• Quality Improvement Strategies and Regional Public Health Structures

• Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Project to Improve Workforce Diversity

Cross-Jurisdictional Sharing & Consolidation of Public Health Agencies

• Cross-Jurisdictional Shared Service Arrangements in Local Public Health

• Consolidation in Ohio Public Health: Differences in Expenditures

• The Path to Multi-Jurisdictional Models of Public Health Service Delivery in Massachusetts: What do Local Community Leaders Face in Planning for Change?

• Current and Planned Shared Service Arrangements Among Wisconsin's Local and Tribal Health Departments

• Cross Jurisdictional Sharing Arrangements Between Tribes and Counties for Emergency Preparedness Readiness

• Alternative Models for the Delivery of Local Public Health Services: Effect on Costs, Administration, and Public Health Outcomes

Additional Studies

• Quality Improvement for Cost Effective Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Prevention Services 

• A National Evaluation of Leadership Styles and Outcomes in Local Health Departments

• Quantifying the Value of Public Health Intervention

• Priorities in Rural Health: Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Fungal Meningitis Outbreak in New River Health District

• Integrated HIV/AIDS and STD Service Delivery in New York: A Natural Experiment

• Measuring the Quality of Community Health Improvement Planning and Implementation

• Medicaid MCH Funding and Local Public Health Practice

• Exploring New Methods and Measures to Assess the Impact of the Economic Recession on Public Health Outcomes

• Fiscal Constraints and Access to Reproductive Health Services in South Carolina: The Impact of Clinic Retraction on Utilization, Outcomes, and Quality

• Protecting Public Health in Times of Austerity: Measuring Impacts and Setting Priorities

• Public Health Spending and Medicaid Generosity: Short Term Impact on Population Health

• Economic Shocks and Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Public Health

• Forecasting the Impact of the Economic Recession on Public Health Financing

• Financial Constraints, Regionalization Incentives, and Public Health Responses

• Variation in Local Enforcement of State Public Health Policy

• Resource Allocation and Public Health Roles in Safe Routes to Schools

• Evaluating the Impact of Reallocating Georgia's Funding for Local Public Health Infrastructure

• Deriving Best Practices to Preserve MCAH Services in Local Health Departments: Learning from the Economic Downturn

• Variations in the Costs of Delivering Public Health Services: An Analysis of Local Health Departments in Florida

• The Cost of Doing Business: Developing a Cost Model for the Minimum Local Public Health Services Package in Ohio

• Public Health Return on Investment in a Time of Economic Crisis:  Lessons Learned from State Tobacco Control Programs

• Return on Investment for Public Health Expenditures: A Societal Perspective with Local Applications

• Cost Effectiveness of Partner Notification and Optimal Intensity of Partner Notification for STD Control and Prevention in Louisiana

• Evidence-based Allocation of Public Health Resources: Using Economic Analysis to Identify Value and Priority in Domestic Public Tuberculosis Control

• Budget Cuts and Health Outcomes: Examining a Natural Experiment

• Measuring Quality in Local Public Health Emergency Preparedness: The H1N1 Experience

• Comparing Public Health Emergency Preparedness Services Across States and Local Agencies

• Accreditation of Rural Health Departments: Social, Economic, Cultural, and Regional Factors

• Public Health QI and Evidence-Based Diabetes Prevention

• Quality Improvement Collaboratives for Small and Rural Public Health Settings

• Public Health Accreditation and Quality Improvement Philosophy

• Taxonomy of QI Methods, Techniques, and Results in Public Health

• Quality Improvement Strategies and Regional Public Health Structures

• Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Project to Improve Workforce Diversity

• Local Public Health Responses to County Health Rankings

• Local Variation in H1N1 Response in North Carolina

• Learning from Outlier Local Health Departments to Improve Maternal and Child Health Services

• Evaluating the Impact of the Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Program Reorganization on the California Public Health System

• Modeling Supply Chain System Structure to Trace Sources of Food Contamination

• Investigating Characteristics of Tribal Organization and Performance

• Optimizing Expenditures Across the HIV Continuum of Care: Bridging Public Health and Health Care Systems 

• The Affordable Care Act and Childhood Immunization Delivery in Rural Communities 

• Cost Case Study: The Coastal Health District of Georgia

Georgia Public Health PBRN

• Budget Cuts and Violence and Injury Prevention in WA's Local Health Departments