Improving State Health Policy Assessment: An Agenda for Measurement and Analysis.

We examine the scope of inquiry into the measurement and assessment of the state public health policy environment. We argue that there are gains to be made by looking systematically at policies both within and across health domains. We draw from the public health and public policy literature to deve...

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Published in:	American Journal of Public Health Vol. 102; no. 9; pp. 1697 - 1706
Main Authors:	Macinko, James, Silver, Diana
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	American Public Health Association Sep2012
Subjects:	Analysis of variance Evaluation of medical care Health policy Public health surveillance State governments Social context Institutional cooperation Problem solving methodology Policy sciences > Methodology Cluster analysis (Statistics) Concepts Health outcome assessment Public health administration Quality assurance Research evaluation Evidence-based medicine Professional practice
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Summary:	We examine the scope of inquiry into the measurement and assessment of the state public health policy environment. We argue that there are gains to be made by looking systematically at policies both within and across health domains. We draw from the public health and public policy literature to develop the concepts of interdomain and intradomain policy comprehensiveness and illustrate how these concepts can be used to enhance surveillance of the current public health policy environment, improve understanding of the adoption of new policies, and enhance evaluations of the impact of such policies on health outcomes.