Eleven Health Departments Achieve National Accreditation

The national accreditation program sets more than two dozen standards of quality and performance that focus on the best and most efficient ways to help people stay healthy.

Building Better Health Departments

The Long Road to Recognition

Getting to accreditation is challenging. Among other requirements, health departments need to take part in training from the Public Health Accreditation Board, provide extensive documentation, and undergo a site visit.

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Terry Cline Oklahoma State Health Commissioner

"I Was a Believer From the Beginning"

Oklahoma Health Commissioner Terry Cline explains what accreditation means for his state, and beyond.

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Continuous Improvement in Public Health

Public health departments play a critical role in our everyday lives, but until recently there was no nationwide system to ensure their quality and accountability. Accreditation establishes rigorous, measurable standards, challenges health departments to meet them, and recognizes those who do.

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Hundreds gather to discuss and share public health improvement progress.

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A New Guide for Implementing Nursing-Sensitive Performance Measures

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Review and Analysis of Quality Improvement Techniques in Police Departments

This study analyzed quality improvement (QI) in police departments to better understand how public health agencies can adopt QI techniques.

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Approved in November 2008 by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) board of directors, the Program Requirements for Fellowship...

Defining the Medical Subspecialty of Clinical Informatics

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in March 2007 for the developme...

Core Content for the Subspecialty of Clinical Informatics

The Core Content for Clinical Informatics document outlines four major areas of knowledge and understanding: common vocabulary and environme...

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This foreword to a special issue on public health systems research discusses the history and evolution of the field. The author describes th...

Applying Health Services Research to Public Health Practice

This article provides a history of health services research focused on public health and summarizes the current state of the field.

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