Martha Riddell

University of Kentucky | UKY · Department of Health Services Management

School-based nutrition interventions are used to improve dietary habits of schoolchildren and reverse trends on obesity. This article reports on kindergarten through 12th grade nutrition interventions published between 2009 and 2018 compared with interventions published between 2000 and 2008 based on (1) behaviorally focused, (2) multicomponent, (3...

Public health leadership is an important topic in the era of U.S. health reform, population health innovation, and health system transformation. This study utilized the full-range leadership model in order to examine the public health leadership. We sought to understand local public health leadership from the perspective of local health department...

Background Workforce and leadership development are central to the future of public health. However, public health has been slow to translate and apply leadership models from other professions and to incorporate local perspectives in understanding public health leadership. Purpose This study utilized the full-range leadership model in order to exa...

There has been limited leadership research on emotional intelligence and trust in governmental public health settings. The purpose of this study was to identify and seek to understand the relationship between trust and elements of emotional intelligence, including stress management, at the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH). The KDPH serv...

Objective: The Kentucky Ambulatory Network, a practice-based research network, conducted this study to propose critical processes for electronic health record (EHR) implementation. Methods: Periodic observation of the implementation process and assessment of meaningful use (MU) metrics within 10 small primary care practices working with a region...

Public health systems are charged with protecting the health and well-being of the communities they serve. Higher-performing public health systems should be associated with improved community health status. Currently, little research examines the impact of variations in public health system performance on community health outcomes. The current stud...

Research Objective: This study examines public health leadership using a two-phase, sequential, mixed-method design. Specifically, the study looks to: 1) measure the extent of transformational or transactional leadership styles among local health department directors in selected local health departments and 2) develop an increased understanding of...

This research seeks to determine the relationship between local public health system performance associated with the 10 EPHS and certain county level community health outcomes (% mothers reveiving no care in first trimester, % births characterized as low birth weight, CVD rate, colon cancer rate, and normalized pertussis and syphilis ratios). Data...

To review the literature, identifying proposed recommendations for school-based nutrition interventions, and evaluate kindergarten through 12th grade school-based nutrition interventions conducted from 2000-2008. Proposed recommendations from school-based intervention reviews were developed and used in conducting a content analysis of 26 interventi...

Background: Assure a competent public and personal health care workforce is the eighth of the ten essential public health services. Cross-cutting competencies toward a competent workforce include leadership, systems thinking and communication. Since leadership is such a broad area, more research needs to be conducted in order to determine where to...

This study examined the relationship between community and system characteristics of 353 local public health agencies and local public health system performance by revisiting previous research by Mays et al and Scutchfield et al. More recent and coterminous data were used. Local public health agency characteristics were obtained from the National A...

This article describes efforts to improve knowledge of and acceptance of the proposed voluntary health department accreditation program, put forth by Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), by conducting a group vetting session. The vetting session closely followed the PHAB guidelines, and participants received pre- and postvetting surveys to gau...

This study examines the relationship between state public health system performance in assuring each of the 10 EPHS and total performance, as measured by Version 1.0 of the NPHPSP State Public Health System Performance Assessment instrument, and various state public health agency characteristics contained in the NPHPSP instrument and the 2005 ASTHO...

Introduction: Public Health Systems Research and the National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP) share the goal of increasing the science base of public health in order to improve public health practice. The objectives of this analysis are to: (1) define the characteristics of high-performing local public health systems; and (2) d...

Introduction: This analysis explores how the performance of essential public health services varies across communities and identifies underlying domains of activity that may be driving variation in performance. Methods: This is a study of 452 local public health systems located within 30 states that completed the National Public Health Performance...

Knowledge of capacity and use of health information technology is essential in developing a secure interoperable statewide electronic health network. The purpose of this research was to conduct a comprehensive state-wide assessment of multiple healthcare providers and translate the data through geospatial mapping into a model to guide the developme...