Health Services Research Tools for Public Health Professionals

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...

Priority setting in public health and health services research.

Models for strategic priority setting in public health and health services research typically lack coherence or omit key considerations. We propose a new model, the Seven 'I's, with seven components: innovation, identification, inequalities, incorporation, importance, influences, and interventions. It tests the 'relevance' of research, while 'excellence' will be evaluated using existing criteri...

Building the national health information infrastructure for personal health, health care services, public health, and research

BACKGROUND Improving health in our nation requires strengthening four major domains of the health care system: personal health management, health care delivery, public health, and health-related research. Many avoidable shortcomings in the health sector that result in poor quality are due to inaccessible data, information, and knowledge. A national health information infrastructure (NHII) offer...

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...