title: Health services research tools for public health professionals.
abstract: Although the fields of public health and health services research have much in common, public health practitioners--in their daily encounters with practical, frontline challenges--may not be aware of the quantity and the quality of information generated by health services research that is directly related to public health activities. We describe a number of health services research resources that public health practitioners may find useful, including an overview of these resources and several in-depth examples.
authors.affiliation: Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 725 Airport Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7590, USA. lynn_whitener@unc.edu
authors.forename: B Lynn
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Whitener
authors.forename: Virginia V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Van Horne
authors.forename: Anne K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Gauthier
mesh_terms: D019992:Databases as Topic; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D039781:PubMed; D040442:Public Health Informatics; D015980:Public Health Practice / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States