Buehler James W
Drexel University.
EGEMS (Wash DC). 2014 Dec 29;2(4):1124. doi: 10.13063/2327-9214.1124. eCollection 2014.
People who lead or manage public health agencies have multiple needs for information in order to do their jobs effectively. In seeking to investigate "what works" in public health practice, investigators in the field of public health systems and services research (PHSSR) have largely overlapping information needs but often require a greater detail, specificity, or comprehensiveness than is routinely available in public health data systems.
On April 24, 2014, the PHSSR Center of the University of Kentucky and AcademyHealth convened a 1-day meeting of public health practitioners and PHSSR investigators to identify PHSSR information needs. Meeting participants considered data needs for three PHSSR domains: the organization of public health agencies and services, the use of rapidly evolving health information technologies, and the financing and economic evaluation of public health activities.
Identifying data needs in these and other PHSSR domains requires clarification of research questions, consideration of research methods, a balance of imagination and practicality, and investments to extend the information captured in existing administrative, financial, and population health monitoring systems.
领导或管理公共卫生机构的人员为有效履行其职责需要多种信息。在试图调查公共卫生实践中“什么有效”时，公共卫生系统与服务研究（PHSSR）领域的研究人员有很大一部分信息需求是重叠的，但通常需要比公共卫生数据系统中常规可得的信息更详细、更具体或更全面。
PHSSR数据需求会议：2014年4月24日，肯塔基大学的PHSSR中心和健康学会召集了一次为期一天的公共卫生从业者和PHSSR研究人员会议，以确定PHSSR的信息需求。与会者考虑了三个PHSSR领域的数据需求：公共卫生机构与服务的组织、快速发展的健康信息技术的使用，以及公共卫生活动的融资与经济评估。
确定这些及其他PHSSR领域的数据需求需要明确研究问题、考虑研究方法、在想象力和实用性之间取得平衡，以及进行投资以扩展现有行政、财务和人群健康监测系统中所获取的信息。
