Outreach to public health professionals: lessons learned from a collaborative Iowa public health project*

In 1995, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the Public Health Service (PHS) recommended that special attention be given to the information needs of unaffiliated public health professionals. In response, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) Greater Midwest Region initiated a collaborative outreach program for public health professionals working in rural east and central Iowa. Five public health agencies were provided equipment, training, and support for accessing the Internet. Key factors in the success of this project were: (1) the role of collaborating agencies in the implementation and ongoing success of information access outreach projects; (2) knowledge of the socio-cultural factors that influence the information-seeking habits of project participants (public health professionals); and (3) management of changing or varying technological infrastructures. Working with their funding, personnel from federal, state, and local governments enhanced the information-seeking skills of public health professionals in rural eastern and central Iowa communities.

In sickness and in health: protecting and supporting public investment in Europe. Bruegel Policy Contribution 2014/02, February 2014

The long-term decline in gross public investment in European Union countries mirrors the trend in other advanced economies, but recent developments have been different: public investment has increased elsewhere, but in the EU it has declined and even collapsed in the most vulnerable countries, exaggerating the output fall. The provisions in the EU fiscal framework to support public investment are very weak.The recently inserted ‘investment clause’ is almost no help. In the short term, exclusion of national co-funding of EU-supported investments from the fiscal indicators considered in the Stability and Growth Pact would be sensible. In the medium term, the EU fiscal framework should be extended with an asymmetric ‘golden rule’ to further protect public investment in bad times, while limiting adverse incentives in good times. During a downturn, a European investment programme is needed and the European Semester should encourage greater investment by member states with healthy public finances and low public investment rates. Reform and harmonisation of budgeting, accounting, transparency and project assessment is also needed to improve the quality of public investment.

University funding: federal funding mechanisms in support of university research.

Mode of access: Internet.

Highway funding: use of toll revenues in financing highway projects.

Mode of access: Internet.

Extension of funding and program assistance under the Compact of Free Association : hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, to receive testimony on negotiations on extension of funding and program assistance under the Compact of Free Association, December 6, 2001.

Shipping list no.: 2002-0182-P.

Federal energy research : an analysis of fiscal year 1977 program funding levels and alternative budget paths through fiscal year 1986 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Strategic Defense Initiative : funding needs through completion of Phase I System.

GAO/NSIAD-90-79-FS.

State funding of alcohol safety countermeasure programs. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Programs, Washington, D.C.

A guide to funding resources /

Mode of access: Internet.

Highway funding: alternatives for distributing federal funds.

Mode of access: Internet.

Financial self-sufficiency study and guidelines. Volume 2: funding matrix and summaries of state programs.

Mode of access: Internet.

Operation Desert Shield/Storm : update on costs and funding requirements : report to the Chairman, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives /

"B-245304"--P. 1.

University funding: information on the role of peer review at NSF and NIH.

Mode of access: Internet.

National defense funding levels for fiscal year 1981 : report of the Investigations Subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, second session.

"July 21, 1980."

Workbook for an orientation training module in highway traffic safety. [Module 6] - funding the highway safety program.

Mode of access: Internet.