The Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice’s Academic Health Department Research Agenda: Comparison with WPHRN Priority Research Questions
February 7, 2018
This paper developed by the Wisconsin Public Health Research Network (WPHRN), a public health practice-based research network (PH-PBRN), suggests areas for potential collaboration on public health research. The paper compares potential research questions focused on the AHD model from the Council on...
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The Public Health Improvement Resource Center
April 15, 2015
The Public Health Improvement Resource Center is an online database is managed by the Public Health Foundation (PHF), and offers resources developed by colleagues and partners throughout the field to help build and improve public health systems. The resources support the initiation and continuation...
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Starting and Sustaining a Complete Quality System
August 15, 2012
Organizations must continuously improve or become obsolete. This effort requires constant monitoring of the environment, market place, customers, stakeholders, and employees to detect any shift in priorities. The organization must anticipate these shifts to keep their stakeholders satisfied. When changes...
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How to Focus Your Training and Professional Development Efforts to Improve the Skills of Your Public Health Organization: White Paper
April 10, 2012
This white paper reports on a series of workshops on focusing limited training and professional development resources to build competence within the public health workforce. Using a quality improvement tool, the prioritization matrix, workshop participants determined the relative importance of the...
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A Complete Quality System Requires a Complete Leader
December 14, 2010
At every organizational level a critical mass of leadership must be trained in the principles of quality, problem solving, teaming, and facilitation. Leadership must be able to lead and facilitate teams so that they can show they walk the talk and embrace the principles imbedded in a Complete Quality...
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A Proposal to Examine the Question of What Should Be Done to Facilitate the Development of Academic Health Departments
January 1, 1998
Even though "A Proposal to Examine the Question of What Should Be Done to Facilitate the Development of Academic Health Departments" (by C. William Keck, MD, MPH) was written in 1998, the issues raised in this white paper are relevant today. The white paper was written in response to the 1988 Institute Of Medicine...
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Developing a Health Department Quality Improvement Plan
A health department's Quality Improvement (QI) Plan is not created in a one-time event but rather a continuing process of improvement that shows what is actually happening to ensure customer satisfaction. A QI Plan is also a document that provides written credibility and is a visible sign of management...
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