Document Type
Presentation
Presentation Date
4-10-2013
Abstract or Description
Research Objective: Assess the legal and organization cultural foundations for Cross-Jurisdictional Sharing (CJS) in support of local public health accreditation and QI in Georgia.
Data Sets and Sources: Archival data (primarily state statutes), secondary data from previous qualitative comparative research on Deep South public health organization, secondary data from previous surveys, and oral interviews and written communication.
Study Design: Primarily Qualitative design combining ethnographic and participatory research methods.
Analysis: Qualitative Content analysis based on predetermined and emergent themes.
Principal Findings: Georgia’s Health Districts have emerged as major CJS entities that support delivery of essential services and local public health (LPH) QI and LPH accreditation readiness, driven primarily by local organizational leadership and culture that is facilitated through enabling statutes in contrast to more top-down state-mandating statutes, regulations and directives.
Conclusion: Georgia’s use of districts as multi-county public health entities serves as a primary structure for providing local public health services and has become a critical structure to address the looming demands for QI and accreditation, even though the statutes clearly establish the county as the primary local public health entity.
Implications for the Field of PHSSR: This CJS structure to facilitate public health QI and accreditation in Georgia illustrates how agency cultures can emerge from local demands for economies of scale, more than formal policies generated at state level. This is a model that could be very important for advancing CJS in other regions of the country.
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
Keeneland Conference for Public Health Systems and Services Research
Location
Lexington, KY
Recommended Citation
Livingood, William C., Nandi A. Marshall, Angela Peden, Ketty Gonzales, Gulzar H. Shah, Dayna S. Alexander, Alesha Wright, Russell B. Toal, Lynn S. Woodhouse, DeAnna Keene.
2013.
"Clarifying and Expanding Concepts of Cross-Jurisdictional Sharing: Early Lessons Learned from Conducting QI with Georgia’s Health Districts."
Health Policy and Management Faculty Presentations.
Presentation 13.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/health-policy-facpres/13
Additional Information
Reproduced with permission of the National Coordinating Center for PHSSR and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, N.J. Presentation obtained from the Keeneland Conference site.