Improving health in the community : a role for performance monitoring / Committee on Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health ; Jane S. Durch, Linda A. Bailey, and Michael A. Stoto, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health.

Contributor:

Durch, Jane.

Bailey, Linda A.

Stoto, Michael A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health services--United States--Evaluation.

Community health services.

Health status indicators--United States.

Health status indicators.

Health promotion--United States.

Health promotion.

Community Health Services--standards.

Community Health Planning--administration.

Community Health Planning--methods.

Health Status Indicators.

Quality Assurance, Health Care--organization & administration.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Community Health Services--standards.

Community Health Planning--administration.

Community Health Planning--methods.

Health Status Indicators.

Quality Assurance, Health Care--organization & administration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educational services, adequate nutrition, and a host of other activities. With concern over funding constraints, making sure such activities are efficient and effective is becoming a high priority. Improving Health in the Community explains how population-based performance monitoring programs can help communities point their efforts in the right direction. Within a broad definition of community health, the committee addresses factors surrounding the implementation of performance monitoring and explores the "why" and "how to" of establishing mechanisms to monitor the performance of those who can influence community health. The book offers a policy framework, applies a multidimensional model of the determinants of health, and provides sets of prototype performance indicators for specific health issues. Improving Health in the Community presents an attainable vision of a process that can achieve community-wide health benefits.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Understanding Health and Its Determinants""; ""3 Managing a Shared Responsibility for the Health of a Community""; ""4 A Community Health Improvement Process""; ""5 Measurement Tools for a Community Health Improvement Process""; ""6 Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""A Prototype Performance Indicator Sets""; ""A.1 Prototype Indicator Set: Breast and Cervical Cancers""; ""A.2 Prototype Indicator Set: Depression""; ""A.3 Prototype Indicator Set: Elder Health""

""A.4 Prototype Indicator Set: Environmental and Occupational Lead Poisoning""""A.5 Prototype Indicator Set: Health Care Resource Allocation""; ""A.6 Prototype Indicator Set: Infant Health""; ""A.7 Prototype Indicator Set: Tobacco and Health""; ""A.8 Prototype Indicator Set: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases""; ""A.9 Prototype Indicator Set: Violence""; ""B Methodological Issues in Developing Community Health Profiles and Performance Indicator Sets""; ""Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Exploring the Issues""

""D Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Conceptual Framework and Community Experience""""E Committee Biographies""; ""Acronyms""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health. Improving health in the community.

ISBN:

9780309175371

0309175372

9780309520812

0309520819

9780585021065

0585021066

OCLC:

923258438