Anthony Wellever, MPA

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Completed Projects - (1)

Rural Public Health Department Structure and Infrastructure
This project is intended to generate hypotheses about the relationship of local public health department structure and infrastructure to performance. Using case studies of 12 rural public health departments in six geographically diverse states, investigators hope to identify elements of local health department (LHD) structure to serve as independent variables for future studies of LHD performance.
Research center: FORHP-funded Individual Grantees
Topics: Networking and collaboration, Public health

Local Public Health at the Crossroads: The Structure of Health Departments in Rural Areas (Issue Brief)
FORHP-funded Individual Grantees
Date: 03/2006
This issue brief provides an overview of findings from a study of the structure of rural local public health departments. It includes policy recommendations.
Local Public Health at the Crossroads: The Structure of Health Departments in Rural Areas (Report)
FORHP-funded Individual Grantees
Date: 03/2006
This report shares the results of a study on the structure of local health departments in rural areas. It includes case studies describing the structure of local health departments in rural areas in six geographically disparate states: Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Washington.

The Area Wage Index of the Medicare Inpatient Hospital Prospective Payment System: Perspectives, Policies, and Choices
RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Date: 08/2000
This policy paper summarizes the positions of various rural health advocates and records the actions taken by Congress and the Health Care Financing Administration to improve the wage index. Finally, it outlines the research needed to energize the policy discussion of the uses and methods of calculating the hospital wage index.
Calculating and Using the Area Wage Index of the Medicare Inpatient Hospital Prospective Payment System
Policy Brief
RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Date: 06/2000
This policy brief explains how the area wage index is calculated and used and identifies the major unresolved issues related to its calculation and use.
Strategic Choices of Rural Health Networks: Implications for Goals and Performance Measurement
University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
Date: 01/2000
The purpose of this study is to obtain a greater understanding of rural health networks by classifying them according to their functions and purposes. Examples of performance measures that might be used for the different network types are given.