1. Challenges and Innovations in Surveying the Governmental Public Health Workforce.
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Leider JP, Shah G, Rider N, Beck A, Castrucci BC, Harris JK, Sellers K, Varda D, Ye J, Erwin PC, and Brownson RC
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- Health Services Research organization & administration, Humans, Information Dissemination, Professional Role, Reproducibility of Results, Research Design, Time Factors, United States, Research organization & administration, Surveys and Questionnaires, United States Public Health Service organization & administration
- Abstract
Surveying governmental public health practitioners is a critical means of collecting data about public health organizations, their staff, and their partners. A greater focus on evidence-based practices, practice-based systems research, and evaluation has resulted in practitioners consistently receiving requests to participate in myriad surveys. This can result in a substantial survey burden for practitioners and declining response rates for researchers. This is potentially damaging to practitioners and researchers as well as the field of public health more broadly. We have examined recent developments in survey research, especially issues highly relevant for public health practice. We have also proposed a process by which researchers can engage with practitioners and practitioner groups on research questions of mutual interest.
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- 2016
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