Evidence-Based Public Health Provided Through Local Health Departments: Importance of Academic-Practice Partnerships.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the extent to which US local health departments (LHDs) are engaged in evidence-based public health and whether this is influenced by the presence of an academic health department (AHD) partnership.

Methods

We surveyed a cross-sectional stratified random sample of 579 LHDs in 2017. We ascertained the extent of support for evidence-based decision-making and the use of evidence-based interventions in several chronic disease programs and whether the LHD participated in a formal, informal, or no AHD partnership.

Results

We received 376 valid responses (response rate 64.9%). There were 192 (51.6%) LHDs with a formal, 80 (21.6%) with an informal, and 99 (26.7%) with no AHD partnership. Participants with formal AHD partnerships reported higher perceive

SUBMITTER: Erwin PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6459662 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature