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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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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Council on Linkages: Ecological Model of Public Health
September 24, 2010
The ecological model of public health is “a model of health that emphasizes the linkages and relationships among multiple factors (or determinants) affecting health." This paper briefly summarizes this ecological approach to public health and notes how it affects the work of the Council on Linkages...
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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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