Editors
| Editor-in-Chief: | Glen Mays, PhD, MPH Professor, University of Kentucky |
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| Editors: | Paul Halverson, DrPH, MHSA Director and State Health Officer, Arkansas Department of Health |
| Peggy Honoré, DHA, MHA Director, Public Health System, Finance, and Quality Program in the Department for Health and Human Services |
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| William Riley, PhD Professor, University of Minnesota |
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| F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD Professor, University of Kentucky |
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| Managing Editor | Marylou Wallace, MPH University of Kentucky |
| Editorial Assistants: | Doris Castellanos-Cruz University of Kentucky |
| Lauren Coil University of Kentucky |
Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research features peer-reviewed articles that offer brief descriptions of preliminary findings from an ongoing or recently completed empirical study or quality improvement project that answers a question of importance regarding the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services; the structure, operation, and management of public health delivery systems; the application of quality improvement methods in public health settings; and/or the impact of these endeavors on population health. Findings must have the potential to guide future public health practice, health policy, and research.
Official journal of the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks Program.
Current Issue: Vol. 2, No. 3, March 2013
Articles
Rediscovering the Core of Public Health
Steven Teutsch and Jonathan E. Fielding
Using the QI Maturity Tool to Classify Agencies Along a Continuum
Brenda M. Joly, Maureen Booth, Prashant Mittal, and Yan Zhang
Monitoring QI Maturity of Public Health Organizations and Systems in Minnesota: Promising Early Findings and Suggested Next Steps
Kimberly J. Miner Gearin, M. Elizabeth Gyllstrom, Brenda M. Joly, Renee S. Frauendienst, Julie Myhre, and William Riley
Do PHAB accreditation prerequisites predict local health departments’ intentions to seek voluntary national accreditation?
Gulzar H. Shah, Kate Beatty, and Carolyn Leep
Community Asset Identification in Support of a Place-Based, Early Childhood Obesity Prevention and School Readiness Initiative
Cristi Carman, Bernice Raveche Garnett, Josefine Wendel, Justeen Hyde, and Virginia Rall Chomitz