Year: 2011
Funding: Research Acceleration & Capacity Expansion Supplement (RACE)
Status: Completed
Overview
This study from the Georgia affiliate PBRN examines the impact of a quality improvement collaborative model implemented through Georgia’s regional public health districts on the implementation and effectiveness of local public health QI activities. Building on the methods and results of an ongoing quick-strike project, this study compares QI activities organized through Georgia’s regional public health district structure with QI activities organized through Georgia’s state health department structure. Pre-intervention and post-intervention measures of QI practices and outcomes are being collected via surveys of staff from each QI project, supplemented with qualitative data collected through interviews with key informants. Findings will provide practitioners and policy-makers with evidence regarding the organizational structures and implementation processes that are most effective in facilitating successful QI processes in public health.
Presentations
- A Method to Identify Quality Improvement Initiatives in Georgia’s Multijurisdictional Public Health System
- Health Districts as Quality Improvement Collaboratives and Multi-Jurisdictional Entities (Keeneland Conference, April 2012)
- Health Districts as Quality Improvement Collaboratives and Multi-Jurisdictional Entities (AcademyHealth, June 2012)
- Health Districts as Quality Improvement Collaboratives and Multi-Jurisdictional Entities (NACCHO, July 2012)
- Quality Improvement Virtual Meeting #1 Featuring Dr. Bill Riley and Highlighting the QI Pilot Projects of the East Central, Coastal, and Southeast Health Districts
- Quality Improvement Virtual Meeting #21 Featuring Dr. Bill Riley and Highlighting the QI Pilot Projects of the East Central, Coastal, and Southeast Health Districts
- Georgia Public Health Plan: Writing a QI Plan for Accreditation (March 2013)
- Clarifying and Expanding Concepts of Cross-Jurisdictional Sharing: Early Lessons Learned from Conducting QI with Georgia’s Health Districts (Keeneland Conference, April 2013)
Publications
- Comparison of Practice Based Research Network-Based Quality Improvement Technical Assistance and Evaluation to Other Ongoing Quality Improvement Efforts for Changes in Agency Culture, July 2015
- Health Districts as Quality Improvement Collaboratives and Multijurisdictional Entities
- Building Capacity to Support and Study QI in Local Georgia Public Health Systems
- Assessing a Quality Improvement Project in a Georgia County Health Department
Research Areas
Contact Us
William C. Livingood, Ph.D.
wclivingood@georgiasouthern.edu
Ketty M. Gonzalez, M.D., M.S.
kmgonzalez@gdph.state.ga.us
Nandi T. Marshall, Dr.P.H. Candidate
nt00174@georgiasouthern.edu
Angie Peden, M.P.H.
apeden@georgiasouthern.edu