Quality Improvement and Performance
Within the context of health reform, the Obama administration's ambitious goal of integrating prevention, public health and health care delivery systems anticipates greatly expanding prevention and wellness activities as the primary means to reduce the burden of disease, injury and disability in the United States. This prescription for change represents a significant challenge.
If public health is to succeed in delivering on the promise of prevention, as well as exert our leadership role, then it needs to counter with bold initiatives that promote accountability, performance and improvements in public health. The reason is clear—without a high-performing public health system, we will not be able to attain the goals of the new administration and, most important, the health aspirations of communities across the nation.
Special Journal Issue Highlights Quality Improvement (QI) in Public Health
- 1. Quality Improvement in Public Health
- 2. Quality Improvement and Performance
- 3. Achieving a Culture of Quality Improvement
- 4. Defining Quality Improvement in Public Health
- 5. Opportunities to Advance Quality Improvement in Public Health
- 6. Supporting Public Health Departments' Quality Improvement Initiatives
- 7. The National Public Health Performance Standards
- 8. Taking Improvement Action Based on Performance Results
- 9. State Landscape in Public Health Planning and Quality Improvement
- 10. The Quality Improvement Experience in a High-Performing Local Health Department
- 11. Quality Improvement in Local Health Departments
- 12. Promoting Quality Improvement and Achieving Measurable Change
- 13. Evaluating the Multi-State Learning Collaborative
- 14. Driving Quality Improvement in Local Public Health Practice
- 15. Realizing Transformational Change Through Quality Improvement in Public Health
- 16. Quality Improvement and Accreditation