Answering Your Questions about Using The Community Guide for Community Health Improvement
Posted in: Community Developmentby Kathleen Amos
May 31, 2016
Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation
In late March 2016, the Public Health Foundation (PHF), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI)/Health Research...
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Using The Community Guide for Community Health Improvement Initiative Kicks Off
Posted in: Community Developmentby Kathleen Amos
April 14, 2016
Kathleen Amos, MLIS, Assistant Director, Academic/Practice Linkages, Public Health Foundation
The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide), a free resource for evidence-based recommendations and findings from the Community Preventive Services Task Force, can play a valuable role...
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Together We Can Use The Community Guide!
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement
February 5, 2013
Mary Kushion, MSA is the Health Officer of the Central Michigan District Health Department; a six-county district health department which includes the counties of Arenac, Clare, Gladwin, Isabella, Osceola and Roscommon.
It has almost been a year since the Central Michigan District Health Department...
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Using Evidence-Based Strategies to Increase Employee Cancer Screening Rates
Posted in: Performance Management and Quality Improvement
November 13, 2012
Anna Notier is the Cancer Policy Consultant for the Michigan Department of Community Health Cancer Prevention and Control Section. She also serves as staff support for the Michigan Cancer Consortium.
In public health, we continuously strive to identify and successfully implement best practices to ...
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