Year: 2011
Funding: NNPHI PHS2 Award
Status: Completed
Overview
This study will identify factors that influence local health departments to use evidence-based public health strategies addressing population health, social determinants of health and the alleviation of health disparities. This project will inform policymakers of effective ways to support LHDs in applying evidence-based public health and help LHDs identify leverage points for moving their organizations toward a focus on population health.
Findings
- Financial Resources and Workforce Predict LHDs’ Use of Evidence-Based Decision Making Strategies (Research Brief, 2014)
Publications
- Laying the groundwork for evidence-based public health: Why do some LHDs use more evidence-based decision making practices than others? (AJPH, 2015)
- Differences in Definitions of EBPH and Evidence: Implications for Communication with Practitioners. (Frontiers in PHSSR, 2014)
Related Publications
- Editorial Comment: Differences in Definitions of EBPH and Evidence: Implications for Communication with Practitioners (Frontiers in PHSSR, 2014)
Presentations
- Increasing Evidence-Based Decision Making in LHDs: Research and Practice (NACCHO Annual Meeting, 2014)
- LHDs increase their use of EBDM practices from 2010 to 2013 (PHSSR Keeneland Conference, 2014)
- Predictors of evidence-based decision making and population health practice in local health departments (PHSSR Keeneland Conference, 2013)
- Using expert panels to elicit potential indicators and predictors of EBPH in local health departments (PHSSR Keeneland Conference, 2013)
- Toward Evidence-based Population Health Practice in Local Health Departments: Evidence from the 2010 NACCHO Profile Survey (APHA Annual Meeting, 2012)
- Using expert panels to elicit potential multi-level determinants of EBPH practice related to population health, social determinants, and alleviating health disparities (APHA Annual Meeting, 2012)
Research Areas
Contact
Kay Lovelace, Ph.D., M.P.H.
kalovela@uncg.edu
Robert E. Aronson, Dr.P.H., M.P.H.
bob_aronson@taylor.edu