Building the backbone for organisational research in public health systems: Development of measures of organisational capacity for chronic disease prevention

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 742-749

  Hanusaik, Nancy ^a,b   O'Loughlin, Jennifer L ^c,d   Kishchuk, Natalie ^e   Eyles, John ^f   Robinson, Kerry ^f   Cameron, Roy ^g  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e Natalie Kishchuk Research and Evaluation Inc   (Canada)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISEASE PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTENT VALIDITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEY; LIFESTYLE; ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORGANIZATIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34547210812     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.054049     Document Type: Article

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