title: Measuring public health practice and outcomes in chronic disease: a call for coordination.
abstract: A strategic opportunity exists to coordinate public health systems and services researchers' efforts to develop local health department service delivery measures and the efforts of divisions within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) to establish outcome indicators for public health practice in chronic disease. Several sets of outcome indicators developed by divisions within NCCDPHP and intended for use by state programs can be tailored to assess outcomes of interventions within smaller geographic areas or intervention settings. Coordination of measurement efforts could potentially allow information to flow from the local to the state to the federal level, enhancing program planning, accountability, and even subsequent funding for public health practice.
authors.affiliation: Deborah S. Porterfield, Todd Rogers, and LaShawn M. Glasgow are with RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC. Deborah S. Porterfield is also with the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill. Leslie M. Beitsch is with the Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee.
authors.forename: Deborah S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Porterfield
authors.forename: Todd
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: LaShawn M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Glasgow
authors.forename: Leslie M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Beitsch
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015397:Program Evaluation; D015980:Public Health Practice; D014481:United States