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Promoting a Trained MCH Epidemiology Workforce in State Public Health Agencies Through Strategies Developed From Continued Partnerships

Authors: Ghasi Phillips, William Sappenfield, Arden Handler, Michael D. Kogan

Published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal | Special Issue 2/2012

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Maternal and child health (MCH) epidemiology has become a major program component of most state Title V MCH programs [1]. MCH epidemiology is “the systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of population-based and program-specific health and related data in order to assess the distribution and determinants of the health status and needs of the maternal child population for the purpose of planning, implementing, and assessing effective, science-based strategies and promoting policy development” [2], a definition derived from the work of others [3]. Increasing “the proportion of Tribal, State, and local public health agencies that provide or assure comprehensive epidemiology services to support essential public health services[4],” including MCH epidemiology, is of national importance and continues to be recognized as a Healthy People objective [4]. …

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Health Resources and Services Administration/Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Graduate Student Internship Program. Rockville, MD. Available from: http://mchb.hrsa.gov/researchdata/mchirc/gsip/index.html. Accessed May 4, 2012.

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Title: Promoting a Trained MCH Epidemiology Workforce in State Public Health Agencies Through Strategies Developed From Continued Partnerships
Authors: Ghasi Phillips
William Sappenfield
Arden Handler
Michael D. Kogan
Publication date: 01-12-2012
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Maternal and Child Health Journal / Issue Special Issue 2/2012
Print ISSN: 1092-7875
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6628
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-012-1095-7

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