Realizing Transformational Change Through Quality Improvement in Public Health

This article discusses the specific components necessary to achieve transformational change within public health departments as a means for creating sustained performance improvement and better outcomes in the health of the community. This article provides a review of transformation change concepts and application to public health departments.

Transformational change for public health departments must be intentionally designed to achieve high performance. While all improvement requires change, not all change results in improvement. The successful transformational change effort always occurs from the top-down, while the process improvement occurs from the bottom-up. Transformational change is possible in public health departments when small incremental improvements are linked with large-scale management changes to continually improve public health performance resulting in better population outcomes.

Special Journal Issue Highlights Quality Improvement (QI) in Public Health

  1. 1 Quality Improvement in Public Health
  2. 2 Quality Improvement and Performance
  3. 3 Achieving a Culture of Quality Improvement
  4. 4 Defining Quality Improvement in Public Health
  5. 5 Opportunities to Advance Quality Improvement in Public Health
  6. 6 Supporting Public Health Departments' Quality Improvement Initiatives
  7. 7 The National Public Health Performance Standards
  8. 8 Taking Improvement Action Based on Performance Results
  9. 9 State Landscape in Public Health Planning and Quality Improvement
  10. 10 The Quality Improvement Experience in a High-Performing Local Health Department
  11. 11 Quality Improvement in Local Health Departments
  12. 12 Promoting Quality Improvement and Achieving Measurable Change
  13. 13 Evaluating the Multi-State Learning Collaborative
  14. 14 Driving Quality Improvement in Local Public Health Practice
  15. 15 Realizing Transformational Change Through Quality Improvement in Public Health
  16. 16 Quality Improvement and Accreditation

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