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A team charter provides the initial direction a team needs to be successful in tackling the task it has been assigned. Too often a team spends valuable resources figuring out what it is supposed to do. A well-developed team charter can save time and reduce confusion by defining clear goals, expressed...

Healthy People 2010 Toolkit

September 10, 2010

The Healthy People 2010 Toolkit provides guidance, technical tools, and resources to help states, territories, and tribes develop and promote successful Healthy People 2010 plans and to prepare for 2015 or 2020 plans. It can also serve as a resource for communities and other entities embarking on similar...

Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project

September 10, 2010

In 2001, PHF assisted the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the development of the Healthy People 2010 Information Access Project, which provides easily accessible information on evidence-based strategies related to the Healthy People 2010 objectives. By clicking on specific search strategies,...

Livingston County Department of Health, NY - Using the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals to Improve Performance

September 2, 2010

As part of a Quality Improvement (QI) initiative, Livingston County Department of Health in New York has used the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals in two ways: 1) to improve its performance appraisal form; and, 2) to conduct a workforce needs assessment. Download this document to learn how...

About NPHPS Online Resource Center

July 16, 2010

The National Public Health Performance Standards (NPHPS) Online Resource Center is the only collection of resources designed specifically to help public health systems and boards of heath improve their performance as it relates to the Essential Public Health Services and the national standards. This...

Healthy People 2010 Archive of Resource Files

The Public Health Foundation played a major role in developing and compiling tools and other resources that were designed to assist organizations in their efforts to implement Healthy People 2010. PHF migrated these tools and resources into one electronic file repository that can be downloaded from...

Core Competencies for Performance Improvement Managers

The Core Competencies for Performance Improvement Managers (PIMs) are a set of competencies for public health professionals in PIM positions. Most of these positions in state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments have been funded through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC)...

AI Can be a Useful Quality Improvement Team Member

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) continues to explore innovative approaches to enhance the quality improvement (QI) efforts of health departments. In the paper, AI Can Be a Useful Quality Improvement Team Member, we examine how artificial intelligence (AI) tools can support QI teams by generating...

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