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Health Planning Technical Assistance (0):
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Health Planning Technical Assistance
Evaluating a scalable model for implementing electronic health records in resource-limited settings.
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Current models for implementing electronic health records (EHRs) in resource-limited settings may not be scalable because they fail to address human-resource and cost constraints. This paper describes an implementation model which relies on shared responsibility between local sites and an external t...
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PMID: 20442140
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American Journal of Nursing (110)2 2010
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Public Health Reports (125 Suppl 5) 2010
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We discuss selected topic areas (surveillance, vaccine/antiviral, and vulnerable populations) observed within local pandemic influenza plans to highlight the variability in planning approaches and identify potential opportunities for state and local standardization....
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PMID: 21137135
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Australian family physician (38)10 2009
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Quantitative analysis showed that rates for a number of practices with initial coverage between 80-90% increased to more than 90% during the intervention. The qualitative component highlighted patient and practice related issues around coverage and reporting. DISCUSSION: Many practice related covera...
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PMID: 19893825
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Building a community-wide coalition to address violence evolved out of a five-year federally funded project on abuse during pregnancy. The setting for this coalition building is Haverhill, Massachusetts, a city of about 60,000, located northeast of Boston in the Merrimack River Valley. For nearly ei...
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PMID: 18592425
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We evaluated a case where an organization structured its care processes into care programs and used a planning tool for planning and control of the care programs. The results of this evaluation contribute to existing knowledge about the relation between care processes and IT as well as IT implementa...
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PMID: 17646127
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This study examined the impact of on-site and off-site technical assistance (TA) dosage on the functioning of Communities That Care prevention boards in Pennsylvania. Data on board functioning were collected over three years from board member and TA providers. Results of path models indicated little...
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PMID: 18365313
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Community coalitions (CCs) have labored with some difficulty to demonstrate empirical evidence of effectiveness in preventing a wide range of adolescent problem behaviors. Training and technical assistance (TA) have been identified as important elements in promoting improved functioning of CCs. A re...
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PMID: 16740500
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The suggested framework is based on a phased implementation approach. The first phase "Information Dissemination" is more geared towards breaking the "digital divide" across three dimensions: G2Business; G2Citizen; and G2Agent. The most advanced stage is aimed towards joining up healthcare informati...
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PMID: 18030965
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Although HIV/AIDS prevention has presented challenges over the past 25 years, prevention does work! To be most effective, however, prevention must be specific to the culture and the nature of the community. Building the capacity of a community for prevention efforts is not an easy process. If capaci...
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PMID: 17159467
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This article has two goals: (1) to outline a conceptual model for culturally appropriate HIV prevention capacity building; (2) to present the experiences from a 3-year program provided by Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team to Asian Pacific Islander (API) organizations in southern California. The p...
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PMID: 17159469
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LHJs with higher overall adequacy scores on their plans had an overall higher level of use of FHOP's products and services. LHJs with higher adequacy scores reported calling FHOP for technical assistance more frequently, using FHOP's book - "Developing an Effective Planning Process: A Guide for Loca...
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PMID: 17006772
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As the HIV/AIDS epidemic neared the end of its first decade in the late 1980s, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognized the disparate impact on racial and ethnic minority communities. In response, a program was initiated to build capacity to prevent the further spread of HI...
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PMID: 17159473
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We think this model could be used to implement evidence-based interventions by facilitating the selection of best-prepared agencies and by identifying critical areas of capacity building. The model will help us establish a framework for informing future program announcements and predecisional site v...
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PMID: 17159463
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We found that agencies we visited (1) had not yet adapted the evidence-based interventions they were using at the time of our visit and (2) requested technical assistance and training in the areas of program development, evaluation, group facilitation techniques, consumer recruitment, client retenti...
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PMID: 17159465
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Baseline data are compared with the last 2 years of preliminary data that show increased capacity among community-based organizations and health departments to strengthen culturally competent models of HIV prevention. Systems-level outcomes so far show enhanced leadership skills for HIV-related advo...
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PMID: 17159466
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The article includes lessons learned, recommendations for building long-term sustainability, organizational change at various levels, and the need to develop standardized indicators to measure changes in organizational capacity....
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PMID: 17159464
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Public Health Nursing (23)1 2006
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Funding agencies are increasingly focused on community coalitions as effective entities for promoting public health programs. Yet, there has been no conceptual model for understanding how effective coalition infrastructure works to facilitate a learning environment, wherein coalition members and lea...
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PMID: 16460423
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Public Health Reports (121)5 2006
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Immediately following the Master Settlement Agreement of 1998 and the corresponding growth of new and existing tobacco control programs, it became clear that tobacco prevention and control organizations required technical assistance to help them carry out their missions. The Tobacco Technical Assist...
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PMID: 16972508
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To facilitate the successful implementation of school-based health centers (SBHCs), funding streams and technical assistance are needed from various resources. The core funding models for service delivery include federal grants, state grants, local funding, community partnerships, foundations, and p...
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PMID: 16324936
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AIDS Education and Prevention (17)6 Suppl B 2005
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We describe the development of the Bridging Model, a technical assistance model for overcoming barriers to the use of data for program planning. Through the use of an iterative feedback loop in the model, HIV/AIDS data products constantly are evolving to better inform the decision-making tasks of th...
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PMID: 16401184
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We describe this model and suggest a research agenda that can lead to improved outcomes at the local level....
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PMID: 15909791
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AIDS and Behavior (9)2 Suppl 2005
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HIV prevention community planning was developed to promote identification of local prevention priorities through a process that was evidence-based and provided community input. There are a variety of barriers to effective use of data in community planning which include characteristics of data (avail...
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PMID: 15933830
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AIDS and Behavior (9)2 Suppl 2005
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The Texas Department of Health and University of Texas Southwestern staff, using formative assessment data, developed a set of innovative methods and tools to increase the use of behavioral and epidemiologic data in decision-making about HIV prevention interventions by HIV prevention community plann...
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PMID: 15933829
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Injuries, whether caused by unintentional or intentional events, area significant public health problem. The burden of injury is greatest in low-and middle-income countries and among individuals of low socioeconomic status living in high-income countries. Most of these injuries are prevent-able. Eme...
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PMID: 15663975
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The Alabama nurse (32)4 2005
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Health Policy (70)2 2004
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We sent a questionnaire to all health project managers of the 'German Agency for Technical Co-operation' and performed a qualitative case study in one of the health projects. Forty-seven of 80 (58.8%) of the questionnaires were completed and sent back. The managers considered publications of Interna...
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PMID: 15364152
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'Capacity building' is the objective of many development programmes and a component of most others. However, satisfactory definitions continue to elude us, and it is widely suspected of being too broad a concept to be useful. Too often it becomes merely a euphemism referring to littl...
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PMID: 15310668
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Modern Healthcare (34)21 2004
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Public Health Reports (119)1 2004
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Funding agencies are using technical assistance (TA) to strengthen the evaluation capacity of community-based organizations (CBOs) engaged in HIV prevention efforts. The authors used qualitative methods to identify the types of evaluation TA needed by CBOs, to understand CBOs' past experiences with...
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PMID: 14582597
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Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare (9 Suppl 2) 2003
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The use of telemedicine brings about change in health-care organizations and opens up new possibilities for service delivery. The organizational environment is often crucial in determining whether or not telemedicine applications will be successful. To examine the concept of 'organizational readines...
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PMID: 14728753
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Journal of Rural Health (19 Suppl) 2003
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Overall, the study found that the type of organizational home did not appear to affect the type of technical assistance services offered. However, the type of orgnizational home did appear to affect what types of providers used the service, with trade associations assisting their members or constitu...
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PMID: 14526514
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Journal of Rural Health (19 Suppl) 2003
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Programs designed to empower rural communities for health care provider recruitment have usually focused on the health care sector without aggressively addressing broader community development issues. The Recruitable Community Project (RCP) in West Virginia includes community education on recruiting...
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PMID: 14526518
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Journal of Rural Health (19 Suppl) 2003
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Since 1996, 19 networks covering 74 of the 117 rural counties in Georgia have emerged. This grassroots transformation of rural health care occurred through a series of partnerships launched by state government officials. These partnerships brought together national and state organizations to pool re...
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PMID: 14526520
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This paper reports results from a prospective study of the impact of a woman-focused development programme on child survival in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh. The programme was targeted to households owning less than 50 decimals of land and members selling more than 100 days of labour for livin...
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PMID: 12297241
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Community development efforts in economically depressed rural areas are often hampered by poor access to health care. One barrier to rural provider availability is the difficulty of obtaining capital for rural health care infrastructure development. Commercial lending institutions are limited in the...
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PMID: 12407961
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As research evidence for the effectiveness of community-based prevention has mounted, so has recognition of the gap between research and community practice. As a result, state and local governments are taking a more active role in building the capacity of community-based organizations to deliver evi...
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PMID: 12238705
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Despite the growing utilization of self-help groups, there have been only a handful of studies that have examined the factors that contribute to their survival. The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that contribute to self-help group survival by examining their relationship with exter...
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PMID: 12054034
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Community-based organizations (CBOs), including grassroots, voluntary organizations, are an important part of any strategy for addressing social determinants of health. Because of the challenges faced by CBOs, "enabling systems" may be neededto help them survive and fulfill theirmissions, andresearc...
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PMID: 12038745
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the most common bloodborne infection in the United States. To determine the capacity of local health departments to respond to concerns about HCV, local health officers were surveyed regarding HCV programs and needs. Of 612 respondents, fewer reported offering HC...
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PMID: 11889851
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There is a great need for organizational leaders to provide data-based evidence that a program or initiative makes a difference. The authors describe findings from a survey designed to gather baseline data about changes organizations experience after implementing the Clinical Practice Model framewor...
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PMID: 12177561
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Strategies are needed to quickly transfer research-based HIV prevention methods to community providers of HIV prevention services. Active collaboration between researchers and service agencies results in more successful program adoption than distribution of implementation packages alone....
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PMID: 10897186
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AIDS Education and Prevention (12)5 Suppl 2000
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This article examines the role of technical assistance (TA) in supporting the replication of proven HIV interventions. A case study of the replication of the VOICES/VOCES intervention elucidates the level and types of TA provided to support new users through the adoption process. TA included help in...
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PMID: 11063073
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AIDS Education and Prevention (12)5 Suppl 2000
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We offer a technology transfer model for HIV interventions. We identify participants and activities directed toward the use of effective interventions by prevention services providers (e.g., health departments and community-based organizations) in each phase of technology transfer: preimplementation...
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PMID: 11063066
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AIDS Education and Prevention (12)5 Suppl 2000
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Agencies that provide HIV prevention programs (including agencies using science-based interventions) need to conduct evaluation to facilitate the transfer of effective interventions, provide ongoing assistance to intervention providers, document services provided, demonstrate effectiveness, and impr...
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PMID: 11063074
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