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COPC and a State Health Department: West Virginia's Experience
Pages 222-224

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From page 222...
... The purpose of the law is "to develop and implement a coordinated and comprehensive continuum of health and mental health services to meet current and future needs at reasonable costs; to promote the delivery of preventive care by emphasis on primary care and community-based services; tO achieve equal access tO all types of quality care for all citizens of the State; to encourage the active participation of the citizens of this State in matters relating tO the delivery of health and mental health services...." With this visionary statement, the state legislature provided the State Department of Health with a mandate for its emphasis on COPC. This set of inputs, combined with the knowledge, dedication, and values that each employee brings to the State Health Department, have resulted in an identifiable set of values and management norms that this administration intends to pursue.
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From page 223...
... Our work with liaison groups from various health care sectors, public health education for consumers, and our commitment to grass roots health planning help maintain open channels of communication and help establish the department's values and operating norms in the public mind. Through training and community organization, the State Health Department affects availability of resources, accessibility, referrals, and skills.
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From page 224...
... Some of these problems are reflected in our current statistical reporting systems, and these systems could be refined to indicate morbidity, mortality, fertility, and disability within the dimensions of incidence, prevalence, distribution, intensity, and duration. Improvement in these areas, not just statistically but in the everyday lives of people, makes for an improvement in the "quality of life." It is this translation of health services into quality of life terms that is our most important and perhaps difficult task.
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