Evidence-Based Decisionmaking for Community Health Programs - Softcover

Jackson, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833025732 ISBN 13: 9780833025739

Publisher: Rand Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

A literature review was _ conducted to ascertain what types of evidence concerning community-based health program effectiveness and costs were available. Focus groups and telephone interviews were conducted with persons involved in community-based health program funding decisions to learn how decisions were made and what types of information were used to support those decisions.

About this title

About the Author

CATHERINE A. JACKSON (Ph.D. Health Economics, Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health) is an economist and group manager, economics and statistics, at RAND.

Kathryn Pitkin Derose (Ph.D. candidate, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles) is a community health researcher at RAND.

Rayne Kington (M.D., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Wharton School) is a researcher at RAND and Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. Interests include aging, race, socioeconomic status and health, nursing homes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rand Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0833025732
• ISBN 13: 9780833025739
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100