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... The committee is considering the individual and interrelated roles that public health agencies, health care providers in the private sector, and various other stakeholders play in influencing community-wide health, how the performance of those roles can be monitored in a systematic mariner; and how a performance monitoring system can foster collaboration among stakeholders and promote improvements in health status for all members of the community. An important task for the committee will be developing prototypical sets of indicators that communities can use to monitor specific health issues and He role that public health agencies, personal health care organizations, and other entities with a stake in these matters could be expected to play in addressing those issues.
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... The final round of presentations reviewed activities related to performance monitoring being conducted by several federal agencies and national organizations, including work on clinical performance measures and health plan reporting; the national health promotion and disease prevention objectives of Heallky People 2000; tools to help communities and local health departments assess health needs and set objectives for improvement; and proposals for linking federal block grants in specific health areas to state performance commitments. Several important points emerged from the presentations and discussion.
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... An assessment of how well private sector health plans are serving, their members and the community is seen by many as an appropriate element of the community monitoring process. Questions arise, however, about the extent to which health plans can and should be held accountable for the health status of all residents in the community.
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