Defining Information Needs for Public Health Systems and Services Research

Defining Information Needs for Public Health Systems and Services Research

BACKGROUND People who lead or manage public health agencies have multiple needs for information in order to do their jobs effectively. In seeking to investigate "what works" in public health practice, investigators in the field of public health systems and services research (PHSSR) have largely overlapping information needs but often require a greater detail, specificity, or comprehensiveness t...

Public health services and systems research.

Environmental public health systems and services research.

Edi tor ’s Note : NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will hig...

A national research agenda for public health services and systems.

The field of public health services and systems research (PHSSR) has emerged over the past decade to produce the evidence needed to address critical uncertainties about how best to organize, finance, and deliver effective public health strategies to all Americans. To advance these efforts, a national PHSSR research agenda-setting process was used to identify a broad inventory of information nee...

Moving from Intersection to Integration: Public Health Law Research and Public Health Systems and Services Research

CONTEXT For three decades, experts have been stressing the importance of law to the effective operation of public health systems. Most recently, in a 2011 report, the Institute of Medicine recommended a review of state and local public health laws to ensure appropriate authority for public health agencies; adequate access to legal counsel for public health agencies; evaluations of the health ef...