Challenges and Innovations in Surveying the Governmental Public Health Workforce
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2016
Publication Title
American Journal of Public Health
DOI
10.2105/AJPH.2016.303424
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.
Recommended Citation
Leider, Jonathon P., Gulzar H. Shah, Nikki Rider, Angela J. Beck, Brian C. Castrucci, Jenine K. Harris, Katie Sellers, Danielle Varda, Jiali Ye, Paul C. Erwin, Ross C. Brownson.
2016.
"Challenges and Innovations in Surveying the Governmental Public Health Workforce."
American Journal of Public Health, 106 (11): 1967-1974.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303424
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/health-policy-facpubs/146
