Report
This detailed data from a survey of adults age 18 and over on their uptake of the seasonal influenza vaccine will inform public health officials and other stakeholders on progress toward vaccinating adults prior to the end of the vaccination season.
Report
This document explores how increased use of disease management programs would affect health system performance along nine dimensions.
Journal Article
Demands on community-based prevention programs for performance accountability and positive outcomes are ever increasing in the face of constrained resources. Relatively little is known about how technical assistance (TA) should be structured to benefit community-based organizations and to lead to better outcomes. In this study, data from multiple sources were used to describe an effective TA model designed to improve the capacity of community-based organizations to plan, implement, and evaluate prevention programming.
Journal Article
This article reports on a formative evaluation of efforts to build community-based prevention capacity in two states (Tennessee and Missouri) using an Internet-based system known as interactive Getting To Outcomes® (iGTO).
Report
Identifies the reasons the National Vaccine Advisory Committee has not had a greater impact on vaccine and immunization policy and practice, and suggests strategies to improve the committee's effectiveness.
News Release
Reducing Americans' average intake of sodium could save the nation as much as $18 billion annually in avoided health care costs and improve the quality of life for millions of people.
Journal Article
The relatively low rates of follow-up care and relatively brief duration of treatment for many of those who received such follow-up care are concerning in a population receiving substance abuse detoxification or residential treatment.
Journal Article
Retail clinics are an increasingly popular source for medical care. Concerns have been raised about the effect of these clinics on the cost, quality, and delivery of preventive care. The authors compare the care received at retail clinics for 3 acute conditions with that received at other care settings. Retail clinics provide less costly treatment than physician offices or urgent care centers for 3 common illnesses, with no apparent adverse effect on quality of care or delivery of preventive care.
Report
This overview of the results of a survey of adults age 18 and over on their receipt of the influenza vaccine will inform public health officials and other stakeholders on uptake of the vaccine by adults during the 2008-2009 vaccination season.
Report
This detailed data from a survey of adults age 18 and over on their receipt of the influenza vaccine will inform public health officials and other stakeholders on uptake of the vaccine by adults during the 2008-2009 vaccination season.
Commentary
One reason that health reform proposals always seem to fail is that proponents promise too much. Reformers declare they will improve quality, lower costs and increase access — all at the same time. This mantra is repeated so often that the public tends to believe it is possible, when really it isn't, writes Dana P. Goldman.
Research Brief
California parolees' health care, mental health care, and drug- and alcohol-treatment needs, as well as where parolees go when they return to counties, place significant demands on counties' safety-net resources and on their ability meet those needs.
Report
Discusses ways to increase vaccination rates among low-income and minority youth.
Journal Article
The authors studied the feasibility of using an internet-based panel survey to obtain timely and accurate population-based data on influenza vaccination.
Journal Article
The Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA), implemented statewide in California in July 2001, mandates drug treatment rather than incarceration for certain nonviolent drug offenders.
Journal Article
Influenza is a serious disease, especially for older people, and incomplete vaccination take-up poses a major public health challenge.
Journal Article
The effect of antismoking public service announcements can be strengthened by using actors whom adolescents perceive to be appealing.
Journal Article
The authors demonstrated the feasibility of collecting and disseminating mid-season estimates of influenza vaccine coverage.
Journal Article
Limited access to empirically supported interventions for depression within public sector AOD treatment settings could be increased if CBT for depression were provided within these settings. The authors adapted an existing CBT treatment manual and trained addiction counselors to deliver the intervention.
Journal Article
Considers the role that alternative vaccination locations (e.g., workplaces and retail clinics) could play in increasing influenza vaccination coverage.
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