Improving Health in the Community
eBook - PDF

Improving Health in the Community

A Role for Performance Monitoring

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  1. 497 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Improving Health in the Community

A Role for Performance Monitoring

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About this book

How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educational services, adequate nutrition, and a host of other activities.With concern over funding constraints, making sure such activities are efficient and effective is becoming a high priority.Improving Health in the Community explains how population-based performance monitoring programs can help communities point their efforts in the right direction.Within a broad definition of community health, the committee addresses factors surrounding the implementation of performance monitoring and explores the "e;why"e; and "e;how to"e; of establishing mechanisms to monitor the performance of those who can influence community health. The book offers a policy framework, applies a multidimensional model of the determinants of health, and provides sets of prototype performance indicators for specific health issues.Improving Health in the Community presents an attainable vision of a process that can achieve community-wide health benefits.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
1997
eBook ISBN
9780309520812
Edition
0
Topic
Medicine

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Contents
  5. Executive Summary
  6. 1 Introduction
  7. 2 Understanding Health and Its Determinants
  8. 3 Managing a Shared Responsibility for the Health of a Community
  9. 4 A Community Health Improvement Process
  10. 5 Measurement Tools for a Community Health Improvement Process
  11. 6 Conclusions and Recommendations
  12. A Prototype Performance Indicator Sets
  13. A.1 Prototype Indicator Set: Breast and Cervical Cancers
  14. A.2 Prototype Indicator Set: Depression
  15. A.3 Prototype Indicator Set: Elder Health
  16. A.4 Prototype Indicator Set: Environmental and Occupational Lead Poisoning
  17. A.5 Prototype Indicator Set: Health Care Resource Allocation
  18. A.6 Prototype Indicator Set: Infant Health
  19. A.7 Prototype Indicator Set: Tobacco and Health
  20. A.8 Prototype Indicator Set: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
  21. A.9 Prototype Indicator Set: Violence
  22. B Methodological Issues in Developing Community Health Profiles and Performance Indicator Sets
  23. Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Exploring the Issues
  24. D Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Conceptual Framework and Community Experience
  25. E Committee Biographies
  26. Acronyms
  27. Index