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A Vision Statement
A Vision Statement
Pages 48-53
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The committee's goal is to develop prototypical sets of indicators for specific public health concerns that communities can use to monitor the performance of public health agencies, personal health care organizations, and other entities with a stake in these matters. The committee will collect and analyze information on existing and planned systems related to public health performance monitonn=,, confer with experts in the field individually and through workshops, and prepare a written report that sets out principles of public health performance monitoring from a systems perspective, and illustrates these principles in a practical manner.
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To farther develop its vision for PHPM, He committee aims to . Specify an organizational and policy context for public health performance monitoring that unites the interests and authorities of the local, state, and national public and private sector entities that should be held accountable for the public's health; .
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Healthy People 2000: The National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives, produced by the Public Health Service with He collaboration of the Institute of Medicine, outlines 22 categories of measurable heals objectives in health status, risk reduction, and services and protection, that is, both process and outcome measures. The objectives process has been implemented by a number of states and local health departments, in some cases using the tools provided by Health Communities 2000 and earlier editions of the Model Standards, which is run win American Public Health Association (APHA)
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Those seeking to use perfonnance monitoring could include local, state, or federal government public health agencies; employers; private heals industries; community or;,anizations; budget analysts; accrediting organizations; health-related workforce planners and educators; and research agenda setters. Specific community heal concerns to be addressed might be selected from broad categories such as environmental toxins, infectious disease, injury control, quality of life in chronic disease, mental illness, and vulnerable populations (such as children, the elderly, and those win financial or geographic access difficulties)
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Indicators should be selected so as to promote constructive actions that are expected to have a positive influence on community health. For example, monitoring smoking rates among health plan members might encourage a plan to avoid enrolling smokers rather than to offer smoking cessation programs.
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· Health systems, including capacities of well-filnctioning health systems such as problem identification and monitoring; relations between public health systems, care providers, and so on; capacities for measuring health system effectiveness; well-functioning processes of change and improvement and feedback. Detailed examples, as suggested above, of indicator sets Mat can be used for public health performance monitoring directed toward specific health concerns.
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