Measuring the Impact of Public Health Policys

Details

• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Brownson, Ross C. ; Seiler, Rachel ; Eyler, Amy A.
• Description:
  Effective health policies and allocation of public health resources can substantially improve public health. An objective of public health practitioners and researchers is to identify key metrics that would help improve effective policies and terminate poor ones. We review articles published in 2008 surrounding measurement issues for public health policy and present a set of recommendations for future emphasis. We found that a set of consensus metrics for population health performance should be developed. However, considerable work is needed to develop appropriate metrics covering policy approaches that can affect large populations, intervention approaches within organizations, and individual-level behavioral approaches for prevention or disease management.
• Subjects:
  Health Policy Health Status Indicators Humans Outcome Assessment (Health Care) Public Health Practice
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 7(4).
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  20550835
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC2901575
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  1R01CA124404-02/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States ; U48 DP00060/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:df6bfe20a944e7a6929ebdc1f2524941f80d417266eb31113ed3920c5c0051ca5c0c06c73a64d5e906e01363d728856a46e7561fd308f95650945567df3a9d07
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/20479/cdc_20479_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 349.14 KB ]