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Southeastern Title V Program Staff Perceptions of State-Level Maternal and Child Health Assessment Skills

Southeastern Title V Program Staff Perceptions of State-Level Maternal and Child Health... Objectives: Since the publication of the Future of Public Health, a high priority has been placed on the development of the assessment capacity in public health programs. Method: Key informant interviews were conducted by telephone with selected program personnel of state Maternal and Child Health and Children with Special Health Care Needs programs in ten southeastern states to determine perceived deficiencies in skills needed to carry out assessments. Results: We found that professional staff perceived that several fundamental assessment skills were available in their units, including collecting secondary data, and creating interagency groups and frameworks for assessment. In contrast, program staff perceived that their units did not have adequate skills to carry out many other critical assessment tasks, including the ability to analyze data using descriptive statistics. Conclusions: Our findings support the argument that more funds and staff resources must be devoted to the development of analytic skills, and to ensuring that consistent application of these skills is reinforced. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Maternal and Child Health Journal Springer Journals

Southeastern Title V Program Staff Perceptions of State-Level Maternal and Child Health Assessment Skills

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 by Plenum Publishing Corporation
Subject
Medicine & Public Health; Public Health; Sociology, general; Population Economics; Pediatrics; Gynecology; Maternal and Child Health
ISSN
1092-7875
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1573-6628
DOI
10.1023/A:1022378829523
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Abstract

Objectives: Since the publication of the Future of Public Health, a high priority has been placed on the development of the assessment capacity in public health programs. Method: Key informant interviews were conducted by telephone with selected program personnel of state Maternal and Child Health and Children with Special Health Care Needs programs in ten southeastern states to determine perceived deficiencies in skills needed to carry out assessments. Results: We found that professional staff perceived that several fundamental assessment skills were available in their units, including collecting secondary data, and creating interagency groups and frameworks for assessment. In contrast, program staff perceived that their units did not have adequate skills to carry out many other critical assessment tasks, including the ability to analyze data using descriptive statistics. Conclusions: Our findings support the argument that more funds and staff resources must be devoted to the development of analytic skills, and to ensuring that consistent application of these skills is reinforced.

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Maternal and Child Health Journal – Springer Journals

Published: Oct 23, 2004

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