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February 2005, Vol 95, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 204-207
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2003.035030

COMMENTARY

Health Services Research Tools for Public Health Professionals

B. Lynn Whitener, PhD, Virginia V. Van Horne, MA and Anne K. Gauthier, MS

B. Lynn Whitener is with the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Virginia V. Van Horne and Anne K. Gauthier are with AcademyHealth, Washington, DC.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to B. Lynn Whitener, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 725 Airport Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7590 (e-mail: lynn_whitener{at}unc.edu).

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.






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