Using a positive deviance framework to identify Local Health Departments in Communities with exceptional maternal and child health outcomes: A cross sectional study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Klaiman, Tamar ^a   Pantazis, Athena ^b   Chainani, Anjali ^c   Bekemeier, Betty ^b  

^a AccessMatters   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Local health departments; Methods; Outcomes; Positive deviance

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FUNDING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEW YORK; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WASHINGTON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84978782597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3259-7     Document Type: Article

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