State and Local Health Departments: Research, Surveillance, and Evidence-Based Public Health Practices

Huston, Sara L.; Porter, Austin

doi:10.5888/pcd20.230142

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“…It is important to recognize the role training and TA played in ensuring the skills and knowledge needed to meaningfully disseminate findings and share lessons learned to promote and improve public health. 7 , 25 The most successful approaches to building capacity are likely to be multifaceted, 2 as a core set of activities can provide practitioners with a toolbox to improve their dissemination efforts. Multimodal approaches can also offer a structure to sustain improvements in writing skills and dissemination.…”

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“…Effective dissemination not only advances progress in public health research and practice but also bridges the research practice gap 6. Nevertheless, a gap persists in disseminating practice-based evidence in the public health field 6,7…”

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Increasing the Writing Capacity and Dissemination of Evaluation Findings Among US Public Health Practitioners Funded to Improve Cardiovascular Health

Scott,

Bostic,

Sreedhara

et al. 2024

Journal of Public Health Management &Amp; Practice

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Context: Contributing to the evidence base, by disseminating findings through written products such as journal articles, is a core competency for public health practitioners. Disseminating practice-based evidence that supports improving cardiovascular health is necessary for filling literature gaps, generating health policies and laws, and translating evidence-based strategies into practice. However, a gap exists in the dissemination of practice-based evidence in public health. Public health practitioners face various dissemination barriers (eg, lack of time and resources, staff turnover) which, more recently, were compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Program: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) partnered with the National Network of Public Health Institutes to implement a multimodal approach to build writing capacity among recipients funded by three DHDSP cooperative agreements. This project aimed to enhance public health practitioners’ capacity to translate and disseminate their evaluation findings. Implementation: Internal evaluation technical assistance expertise and external subject matter experts helped to implement this project and to develop tailored multimodal capacity-building activities. These activities included online peer-to-peer discussion posts, virtual writing workshops, resource documents, one-to-one writing coaching sessions, an online toolkit, and a supplemental issue in a peer-reviewed journal. Evaluation: Findings from an informal process evaluation demonstrate positive results. Most participants were engaged and satisfied with the project’s activities. Across eight workshops, participants reported increased knowledge (≥94%) and enhanced confidence in writing (≥98%). The majority of participants (83%) reported that disseminating evaluation findings improved program implementation. Notably, 30 abstracts were submitted for a journal supplement and 23 articles were submitted for consideration. Discussion: This multimodal approach serves as a promising model that enhances public health practitioners’ capacity to disseminate evaluation findings during times of evolving health needs.

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Increasing the Writing Capacity and Dissemination of Evaluation Findings Among US Public Health Practitioners Funded to Improve Cardiovascular Health

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Bostic,

Sreedhara

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“…Twenty-two articles were released in the collection State and Local Health Departments: Research, Surveillance, and Evidence-Based Public Health Practices ( 4 ). This collection offers examples of the impressive work in public health surveillance, epidemiology, geographic information systems, chronic disease prevention, and partnership development being led by state and local health department workforces ( 5 ). The collection is also dedicated in honor of Peter Briss, MD, MPH, for his unwavering support of PCD.…”

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Another Year of Successes for PCD: Impact Factor, Collections, New Student Committee, Dr Lynne Wilcox Paper of the Year, and 2024 Calls for Papers

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Challenges and Supports for Implementing Health Equity During National Accreditation Among Small Local Health Departments in the United States

Crenshaw,

Allen,

Fifolt

et al. 2024

Journal of Public Health Management &Amp; Practice

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Objective: This article focuses on supports and challenges to health equity that small local health departments (LHDs) experienced while working toward national reaccreditation or Pathways Recognition with the Public Health Accreditation Board’s Standards & Measures Version 2022 (PHAB S&M v2022). Design: The study team conducted 22 qualitative interview sessions with members of health department leadership teams. Setting: In the spring of 2024, participants from 4 small LHDs in the western and midwestern regions of the United States participated in individual remote interview sessions. Participants: Participants were members of leadership teams in LHDs with population jurisdictions less than 50 000. Main Outcome Measure(s): Common challenges relating to the health equity measures in the PHAB S&M v2022 included external influences on equity language; lack of small population data; and racially and ethnically homogeneous populations and staff. The main support was the national equity standards provided justification for pursuing equity work. Results: Strategies to overcome challenges associated with the equity measures included staff training, seeking alternative equity language, and examining socioeconomic inequities in addition to race and ethnicity. Internal workforce understanding of health equity was improved through department-wide training initiatives. When working under restrictive language requirements for state agencies, grants, and other funding sources, staff suggested using alternative phrases and keywords such as level playing field and equal access. When addressing racially and ethnically homogenous populations, staff pursued equity in terms of income and focused on those living with pre-existing conditions (ie, diabetes). Conclusions: Ensuring that LHDs can work toward health equity is crucial for reducing health inequities. While the equity focus of PHAB S&M v2022 proved challenging, for this selection of LHDs, participants affirmed that PHAB accreditation allowed them to solidify their equity work to better serve their communities.

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State and Local Health Departments: Research, Surveillance, and Evidence-Based Public Health Practices

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Increasing the Writing Capacity and Dissemination of Evaluation Findings Among US Public Health Practitioners Funded to Improve Cardiovascular Health

Increasing the Writing Capacity and Dissemination of Evaluation Findings Among US Public Health Practitioners Funded to Improve Cardiovascular Health

Another Year of Successes for PCD: Impact Factor, Collections, New Student Committee, Dr Lynne Wilcox Paper of the Year, and 2024 Calls for Papers

Challenges and Supports for Implementing Health Equity During National Accreditation Among Small Local Health Departments in the United States

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