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Commentary: The Road To Quality In Public Health, A Long But Important Journey, F. Douglas Scutchfield, Glen Mays, Marylou Wallace
Commentary: The Road To Quality In Public Health, A Long But Important Journey, F. Douglas Scutchfield, Glen Mays, Marylou Wallace
Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research
Quality improvement (QI) in public health departments is a focus in this sixth issue of Frontiers. Data is important to the development of quality improvement efforts. As we see growth of and meaningful use of electronic health records, the health department is in a position to take the lead as a data hub and to use this information wisely to both improve their QI efforts and link that QI to outcomes.
Accreditation And Standardization In Local Public Health, Glen P. Mays
Accreditation And Standardization In Local Public Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Reducing harmful, wasteful, and inequitable variation in public health delivery is a central objective for administrative and policy decision-makers in public health, and is embedded in the national accreditation movement. The challenge lies in accomplishing this objective while preserving the benefits of customization in public health delivery that accrue through tailoring and targeting of resources to unique community needs and risks. Public health services and systems research (PHSSR) can help determine the optimal balance between standardization and customization in public health delivery.
Strengthening The Evidence Base For Accreditation: Progress In Phssr And Pbrns, Glen P. Mays
Strengthening The Evidence Base For Accreditation: Progress In Phssr And Pbrns, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
With the launch of a voluntary national accreditation program for public health agencies, the field requires an expanding evidence base concerning which public health strategies work best, for which populations, and under what circumstances. The field of public health services and systems research (PHSSR) and practice-based research networks (PBRNs) are producing applied studies that can inform the future development and implementation of accreditation standards, and evaluate the impact of accreditation on the field of practice.
Application Of Situational Leadership To The National Voluntary Public Health Accreditation Process, Kristina Rabarison, Richard C Ingram, James W. Holsinger Jr.
Application Of Situational Leadership To The National Voluntary Public Health Accreditation Process, Kristina Rabarison, Richard C Ingram, James W. Holsinger Jr.
Health Management and Policy Faculty Publications
Successful navigation through the accreditation process developed by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) requires strong and effective leadership. Situational leadership, a contingency theory of leadership, frequently taught in the public health classroom, has utility for leading a public health agency through this process. As a public health agency pursues accreditation, staff members progress from being uncertain and unfamiliar with the process to being knowledgeable and confident in their ability to fulfill the accreditation requirements. Situational leadership provides a framework that allows leaders to match their leadership styles to the needs of agency personnel. In this paper, the application of …
Do Phab Accreditation Prerequisites Predict Local Health Departments’ Intentions To Seek Voluntary National Accreditation?, Gulzar H. Shah, Kate Beatty, Carolyn Leep
Do Phab Accreditation Prerequisites Predict Local Health Departments’ Intentions To Seek Voluntary National Accreditation?, Gulzar H. Shah, Kate Beatty, Carolyn Leep
Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research
Accreditation has been identified as a crucial strategy for strengthening the public health infrastructure. As agencies prepare for accreditation, it is important to understand how intentions to seek accreditation are related to the current level of readiness based on the three Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) prerequisites. Using the National Association of County and City Health Officials’ (NACCHO) 2010 Profile Study, we examined the relationship between the PHAB accreditation prerequisites and local health department (LHD) intentions to seek PHAB accreditation using multinomial logistic regression. Our results indicate that completion of a community health assessment (CHA) or community health improvement plan …