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Assessing Roles, Responsibilities, and Activities in a Managed Care
Environment: A Workbook for Local Health Officials
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Available from the Agency
for Health Care and Quality (AHRQ). It offers a step-by-step guide to assessing,
analyzing, and implementing successful health department programs at the local level. The
workbook guides readers through the process of developing a strategic plan for their local
health department, including sections on cataloging the LHD's current mission statement,
activities, and capabilities; determining managed care-related changes taking place at
community, state, and federal levels; and identifying new approaches and opportunities for
carrying out core public health services.
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Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education
(COERE) –
The COERE offers integrated scientific expertise and experience in all
areas of outcomes and effectiveness research, including: quality
measurement, outcomes measurement and technology assessment, decision
analytic modeling, outcomes management and tracking, clinical guideline
development and implementation, retrospective claims data analysis,
cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis.
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The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century – Reviews the
nation's public health capabilities and presents a comprehensive framework
for how the government public health agencies, working with multiple
partners from the public and private sectors as an intersectoral public
health system, can better assure the health of communities by: adopting a
population health approach that considers the multiple determinants of
health; strengthening the governmental public health infrastructure, the
backbone of the public health system; building a new generation of intersectoral partnerships;
requiring accountability from and among all
sectors of the public health system; making evidence the foundation of
decision-making; and enhancing and facilitating communication within the
public health system.
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Healthy People 2010 website
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The official site for
comprehensive information on Healthy People 2010, including leading health indicators,
implementation of Healthy People 2010, Healthy People 2010 publications,
Healthy People 2010 data, public comments on the proposed changes to the
Healthy People 2010 objectives through the Midcourse Review, and more.
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Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
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This
site was developed by the National Library of Medicine to provide public health
professionals timely, convenient access to information resources to aid them in improving
the health of the American public. It is a collaboration of U.S.
government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences
libraries. Main topics include health promotion and health education, literature and
guidelines, health data tools and statistics, grants and
funding, education and training, legislation and policy, conferences and meetings,
finding people, discussion and e-mail lists, and jobs and careers.
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UMBC Center
For Health Program Development and Management
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Formed in 1994 in a unique collaboration with the Maryland Medicaid
program, the Center has grown to address issues that touch upon not only
Medicaid, but also other publicly administered programs such as aging
services, public health, Medicare, and federally funded AIDS
initiatives.
The Center provides expertise in
health care policy analysis and research, and health program design, implementation, and
evaluation.
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