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Assessment of Primary Care Resources and Support for Chronic Disease Self Management (PCRS)
This survey was developed by the Advancing Diabetes Self management Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Diabetes Initiative. The purpose of this scale is to help primary care settings focus on actions that can be taken to support self-management by patients with chronic diseases.  This tool is for those in primary health care settings that are interested in or working on changes consistent with the Chronic Care Model.  

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Community Readiness Assessment Tool
The Community Readiness Model is an innovative method for assessing the level of readiness of a community to develop and implement prevention programming. It can be used as both a research tool to assess distribution of levels of readiness across a group of communities or to guide prevention efforts at the individual community level.

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Designing and Evaluating Communication Programs
Many of our public health interventions rely on communication messages and communicative relationships to achieve change objectives. This quiz contains questions that focus on knowledge and purposes of health communication programs, their design, and evaluation.

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Determining Applicability and Transferability to Local Settings
This document consists of questions to ask in determining applicability (extent to which process could be implemented) and transferability (extent to which effectiveness could be achieved) of public health interventions to local settings.

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Developing a Plan for Identifying Local Needs and Resources
This section from the Community Toolbox website (the world's largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities) introduces the Concerns Report Method to assess community needs and resources. The Concerns Report Method is often used when groups place a high value on the input of people living in the community. Information is provided on how to identify the health-related strengths and problems of local communities from the perspective of local citizens. The Concerns Report Method can give your organization or initiative valuable ideas for addressing the needs of your community.

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Evolution to Effective Prevention Diagnostic Scale
This scale can help organizations, communities, and collaboratives assess the development of their prevention efforts. This tool is designed to analyze current efforts and assist groups in making efforts more comprehensive and effective.  The tool is intended to be an ongoing resource. Initially, it can be used to identify areas that are comprehensive and those that need further development; later, it can be used to ensure continued effectiveness and map progress in problem areas.

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Healthy Development Measurement Tool
This tool is a comprehensive evaluation metric to consider health needs in urban development plans and projects. The tool encompasses a community-based vision for planning and uses public health to explicitly connect physical and environmental planning to a wider set of social interests.

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Planning for Dissemination Tool from St. Louis University - School of Public Health
This web tool is designed to assist scholars and practitioners in planning for dissemination early on. It focuses on the audience, process, and timing of dissemination. Through use of this tool, planners can anticipate dissemination issues in advance, likely resulting in more effective translation of science into practice.  Once the online tool/questionnaire is completed, a summary report is provided to the user.

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Planning Tool to Guide Dissemination of Research Results
This tool helps researchers evaluate their research and develop appropriate dissemination plans, if the research is determined to have "real world" impact. It is designed to prompt thinking about the processes that one would use to disseminate findings or products. This tool will ask for identification of potential aspects of research that are ready for dissemination, and to think about who could benefit from the findings or products. It also encourages consideration of various ways to reach these users.

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RE-AIM Quiz
This self-rating quiz stimulates thinking during planning and implementation about program aspects that are often ignored or considered only after the conclusion a program. The quiz is rather short and covers all 5 dimensions of RE-AIM.  Summary scores for each dimension are provided as well as possible ways to improve on each dimension.

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Show Me Am I Ready Scale
The Show Me Am I Ready scale is designed to help you figure out whether your partners and those who may be affected by your intervention are ready to develop and implement (or put into action) an intervention.  This scale provides ten essential questions to guide you in thinking through the time, skills, resources, and support you will need.

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THRIVE: A Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments
A tool designed to help you understand and prioritize the factors within your own community that can help improve health and safety.

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Who's Who in Organizational Change Quiz
Change agents, adopters, sponsors, champions, opinion leaders. These labels get used a lot in discussions of organizational change. Test your knowledge about who’s who by matching the label to the description.

 

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