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January 13, 2010 | Program Result Report
RWJF and the CDC sponsor the development of a model voluntary national accreditation program for state, local, territorial and tribal public health departments could use to advance quality and performance.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This special issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, is dedicated to the current and future states of quality improvement in public health, examining the current research from the field, as well as our expectations for the future.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article discusses a definition of quality improvement in public health and describes a continuum of quality improvement applications for public health departments.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Quality improvement, along with voluntary accreditation, is critical to improving the performance of state and local public health agencies.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Public Health Foundation (PHF), like others, is sharpening its focus based on observations from its experiences in the field. This commentary is informed by the observations of nearly 200 QI consultations provided by the PHF and its consultants over the past decade.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article describes how the National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP) has promoted QI through its instruments and guidance, and how it has continually strengthened the focus on QI over the years.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Performance management is a relatively new concept for public health compared with other health care systems and even other governmental sectors. This article describes the methods and results of using performance data for quality improvement at the statewide system level, the state health department level and local health department level.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Limited data exist on state public health agencies and their use of planning and quality improvement (QI) initiatives. Using the 2007 Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) State Public Health Survey, this article describes how state public health agencies perform tasks related to planning, performance management (PM) and QI.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Quality improvement in public health is a key element in the movement toward accreditation. Multiple national, state and local initiatives are under way to define quality in a public health context and to develop tools and promising practices to support quality-improvement efforts in local health departments.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The 2008 NACCHO Profile QI module furnishes an excellent baseline for measuring progress of health department QI activities as accreditation and other related activities intensify. A clear definition of QI in public health that is understood by practitioners will greatly increase our ability to measure the adoption of QI by LHDs.