DHHS, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services commissioned The Lewin Group to develop a comprehensive data strategy to support its goal of obtaining better public health infrastructure data at Federal, state, and local levels. This report summarizes the proposed strategy for collecting infrastructure-related data. For the purposes of this study, the public health infrastructure is defined as the systems, competencies, relationships, and resources that enable performance of the essential services of public health for every community. The work consisted of three major activities: an assessment of information needs about the public health infrastructure;the identification and evaluation of existing data sources; and the development of alternative strategies for responding to identified "gaps" in available infrastructure-related data.

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