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Quality improvement in local health departments: results of the NACCHO 2008 surveyLeslie M Beitsch
Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 16:49-54. 2010..To assess the current status of quality improvement (QI) within local health departments (LHDs) and examine the characteristics associated with such QI efforts...
Public health laws and implications for a national accreditation program: parallel roadways without intersection?Leslie M Beitsch
Center for Medicine and Public Health, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 13:383-7. 2007..The Turning Point Model State Public Health Act is recommended as one option to resolve the current impasse, assist in acceptance of a national accreditation model, and provide a common public health legal infrastructure...- States gathering momentum: promising strategies for accreditation and assessment activities in multistate learning collaborative applicant StatesGlen Mays
Center for Medicine and Public Health, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 13:364-73. 2007..Other states contemplating similar programs, as well as those charged with implementing the voluntary model at the national level, may find guidance from these examples... 
A state-based analysis of public health preparedness programs in the United StatesLeslie M Beitsch
Center for Medicine and Public Health, Florida State University College of Medicine, 1115 W Call St, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4300, USA
Public Health Rep 121:737-45. 2006....- Public health at center stage: new roles, old propsLeslie M Beitsch
Center for Medicine and Public Health, Florida State University FSU College of Medicine, Tallahassee, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:911-22. 2006..Although the public health system has both traditional and newly defined roles to play, resources, as measured by per capita spending and workforce availability, have not kept pace... - Roles of local public health agencies within the state public health systemLeslie M Beitsch
Center for Medicine and Public Health, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 12:232-41. 2006..In this study we assessed the structure and function of local and district health agencies throughout the United States. We compared these findings with those from a previous national assessment done a decade earlier... - The multistate learning collaborative, states as laboratories: informing the national public health accreditation dialogueLeslie M Beitsch
Center for Medicine and Public Health, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 12:217-31. 2006..This article describes the ongoing work, including breakthroughs and challenges, in these natural "laboratories" so that this information may be a resource for other states as well as nationally... - Structure and functions of state public health agenciesLeslie M Beitsch
Division of Health Affairs, Florida State University College of Medicine, 1115 W Call St, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4300, USA
Am J Public Health 96:167-72. 2006..We assessed the structure and functions of state health departments throughout the United States and compared our findings with those from a previous national assessment conducted in 1990... - Reducing the impact of the health care access crisis through volunteerism: a means, not an endKaren W Geletko
Division of Health Affairs, Florida State University College of Medicine, 1115 W Call St, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4300, USA
Am J Public Health 99:1166-9. 2009..Volunteerism, although not a solution to the health care crisis, serves as a valuable adjunct pending full-scale health care reform... - Aligning public health financing with essential public health service functions and National Public Health Performance StandardsRobert G Brooks
Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 15:299-306. 2009..Public health continues to utilize a majority of its available resources for individual healthcare services, despite increasing requests for improved population-based programs... - Incomplete EHR adoption: late uptake of patient safety and cost control functionsNir Menachemi
Center on Patient Safety, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee 32306 4300, USA
Am J Med Qual 22:319-26. 2007..Overall, many physicians are only partially adopting EHR technologies, suggesting that published adoption rates may be exaggerating the true rate of diffusion... - The medicine and public health initiative ten years laterLeslie M Beitsch
Center for Medicine and Public Health, Division of Health Affairs, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 4300, USA
Am J Prev Med 29:149-53. 2005..In order to meet the numerous health challenges facing our nation, from terrorism to chronic disease, and for MPHI to be successful, medicine and public health must work in tandem... - Linking accreditation and public health outcomes: a logic model approachBrenda M Joly
Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 13:349-56. 2007..This logic model is intended to guide the development of measures and to serve as a tool to help convey the breadth and depth of research needed to link accreditation to health outcomes... - Public health practice: transcending the knownLeslie M Beitsch
Am J Public Health 98:20. 2008