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Assessing Community Public Health Practice
Pages 12-16

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... When this objective was published, no data were available on the performance of local health deparunents. Work is now underway to develop measures of effective public health performance that can be used to assess progress toward this Healthy People 2000 objective and that states and communities can use in Heir own efforts to monitor and improve public health practice.
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... After revisions, the indicators were sent to a national sample of local health departments for comments on issues such as whether the indicators were important descriptors of local public health practice and whether proposed measures were appropriate. A more detailed study in five states looked at potential sources of data and factors that might affect access to data or willingness to share data.
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... 3. For the jurisdiction served by your local public health agency, are timely investigations of adverse health events, including communicable disease outbreaks and environmental health hazards, conducted on an ongoing basis?
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... At the national level, the measurement tools being developed provide a way to monitor progress toward the Healthy People 2000 objective of having 90 percent of the population served by local health departments effectively carrying out core public health functions. States and communities can use this kind of information to identify practice areas that need attention and to track changes in performance and the circumstances associated with those changes.
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... Changes in He state certification requirements, including the IPLAN process, had a broad impact across all areas of public health practice. They shifted attention away from a standard set of programmatic tasks to assessing and responding, to local heals needs, which is more consistent with the core functions and public health practices that are reflected in the 26 performance measures.
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