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Local Health Departments’ Plan To Seek Voluntary National Accreditation And Its Association With Phab Accreditation Prerequisites, Gulzar H. Shah, Kate Beatty, Carolyn Leep
Local Health Departments’ Plan To Seek Voluntary National Accreditation And Its Association With Phab Accreditation Prerequisites, Gulzar H. Shah, Kate Beatty, Carolyn Leep
Health Policy and Management Faculty Presentations
Research Objective: To examine the nature of relationship between LHDs’ intentions to seek Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) accreditation in the future and having completed within five years the three PHAB pre-requisites: community health assessment (CHA), community health improvement plan (CHIP), and the agency-wide strategic plan.
Data Sets And Sources: We used data from the NACCHO’s 2010 National Profile of Local Health Departments (2010 Profile Study) survey, administered to 2,656 LHDs, with a module sent to a nationally representative stratified random sample of 625 LHDs which contained questions on LHDs’ plans to seek voluntary national accreditation (the dependent …