PHLD 9231 – Health Informatics & Decision Making

This course focuses on the fundamental concepts of managing information as an asset in public health and healthcare delivery contexts. Emphasis will be placed on converting data into information and converting information into decision support models

PHLD 9231 - Health Informatics & Decision Making

This course focuses on the fundamental concepts of managing information as an asset in public health and healthcare delivery contexts. Emphasis will be placed on converting data into information and converting information into decision support models

PUBH 7090 – Public Health Practice Trends

Today’s public health landscape is increasingly complex and constantly changing. This course focuses on emerging trends and challenges in public health practice that epitomize the increasing complexity and nature of challenges facing public health practitioners

Local Public Health in Financial Crises: Common Decision Drivers for Changes in Services Due to Economic Downturn

We measured the impact of the 2008-2010 economic recession on local health departments (LHDs) across the United States. Between 2008 and 2010, we conducted 3 Web-based, cross-sectional surveys of a nationally representative sample of LHDs to assess cuts to budgets, workforce, and programs. By early 2010, more than half of the LHDs (53%) were experiencing cuts to their core funding. In excess of 23 000 LHDs jobs were lost in 2008-2009. All programmatic areas were affected by cuts, and more than half of protecting the health of the public, such as monitoring health status to identify and solve community health problems and enforcing laws and regulations that protect the public health and ensure safety. Greater per capita funding from local sources is associated with improved performance on all of the Essential Services, and greater federal funding is associated with improved performance in 5 of the 10 indicators. Moreover, evidence suggests that stable and adequate funding at the local level may enable an LHD to access greater state or federal funding

Editorial Comment: Temporal Trends in Preparedness Capacity

In view of the critical role local health departments (LHDs) play among agencies responsible for responding to natural and man-made emergencies, Bevc et al. examined the LHDs’ emergency preparedness and capacity. They compared LHDs in North Carolina with those across the country for preparedness along eight domains. Significant declines in emergency preparedness were noted from 2010 to 2012 for five out of eight domains, raising questions about our national priority concerning this important function of public health agencies. These findings have numerous implications, some of which are covered in this commentary

PHLD 9231 - Health Informatics & Decision Making

This course focuses on the fundamental concepts of managing information as an asset in public health and healthcare delivery contexts. Emphasis will be placed on converting data into information and converting information into decision support models

PUBH 7890 - Impact of Public Health Leadership

This course focuses on the fundamental concepts of leadership in public health and healthcare delivery contexts

PUBH 7890: Impact of governance on health departments

Dr. Shah will provide