Data-Driven Management Strategies in Public Health Collaboratives
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article demonstrates a data-driven management approach to implementing quality improvement in public health collaboratives.
Quality of Care
Americans receive only about half of the recommended care they should receive. Adopting quality improvement strategies, reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care, and changing how care is delivered at the local level can improve the care all Americans receive.
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Measuring Health Care Access and Quality to Improve Health in Populations
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Poor health status, rapidly escalating health care costs and seemingly little association between investments in health care and health outcomes have prompted a call for a “pay-for-performance” system to improve population health. The authors of this study suggest that both health plans and clinical service providers measure and report the rates of five behaviors.
Finance
February 24, 2011 | Journal Article
PHSSR literature focuses on public health systems financing mechanisms, tools, and techniques and the relationship between public health systems costs and systems performance and outcomes.
Creating Incentives to Improve Population Health
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Improving health care is hard improving population health is even harder, as the articles in this issue of Preventing Chronic Disease discuss.
Evaluating Metrics to Improve Population Health
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
As policy-makers consider strategies to promote improvements in population health, measurement may provide powerful incentives for change, but selecting reliable and valid health metrics that can be tracked consistently across communities is challenging.
Measuring Health Behaviors in Populations
July 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Efforts to improve public health require information on the prevalence of health behaviors in populations—not only to target programs to areas of most need but also to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention efforts.
Communities' Readiness to Commit to High-Quality Health Care
June 1, 2010 | Commentary
Now that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has become law, the question is whether the country is ready to implement its provisions, especially regarding quality. Commentary from Risa Lavizzo-Mourey.
New Data, Same Story?
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study used recent data from a single time period to assess the performance of local health systems in 30 states. The authors used the 10 essential public health services (EPHS) as the standard of measurement.
Achieving a Culture of Quality Improvement
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The authors of this editorial take a look at how our public health system could work in the future.
The National Public Health Performance Standards
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.