Advancing Performance Measurement for Public Health Emergency Preparedness: An Integrated Knowledge Translation Approach

Using an integrated knowledge translation approach to build a public health research agenda

BACKGROUND Public Health Systems Research is an emerging field of research that is gaining importance in Canada. METHODS On October 22 and 23, 2012, public health researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers came together at the Accelerating Public Health Systems Research in Ontario: Building an Agenda think tank to develop a research agenda for the province. RESULTS This agenda included t...

Conceptualizing and defining public health emergency preparedness.

This product is part of the RAND Health working paper series. RAND working papers are intended to share researchers' latest findings and to solicit additional peer review. This paper has been peer reviewed but not edited. Unless otherwise indicated, working papers can be quoted and cited without permission of the author, provided the source is clearly referred to as a working paper. RAND's publ...

Assessing competencies for public health emergency legal preparedness.

journal of law, medicine & ethics Introduction Among the many components of legal preparedness for public health emergencies is the assurance that the public health workforce and its private sector partners are competent to use the law to facilitate the performance of essential public health services and functions.1 This is a significant challenge. Multiple categories of emergencies, stemming f...

Improving competencies for public health emergency legal preparedness.

Promoting information sharing for multijurisdictional public health emergency preparedness.

OBJECTIVE The objective was to assess the planning needs of emergency management and public health professionals to provide a flexible and comprehensive planning tool. DESIGN This study first assessed the needs of emergency management and public health professionals via an online survey. On the basis of results of the assessment, pertinent information was collected and organized into an onlin...