Starting and Sustaining a Complete Quality System
August 15, 2012
Organizations must continuously improve or become obsolete. This effort requires constant monitoring of the environment, market place, customers, stakeholders, and employees to detect any shift in priorities. The organization must anticipate these shifts to keep their stakeholders satisfied. When changes...
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Applying Performance Measurement to Public Health Policy Activities
August 7, 2012
Use
this performance measurement tool developed by PHF and the American Public
Health Association to develop performance measures for your policy
activities. This tool offers an introduction to performance
measurement within the context of performance management.
The first section of the tool...
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Michigan Cancer Consortium: 1st Place Winner, "I'm Your Community Guide!" Contest
July 18, 2012
Community Guide UseThe Michigan Cancer Consortium (MCC) used The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to increase breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening rates among their 7,000 employees and employee dependents. Click the PDF icon to download the full text of this Com...
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Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron: 2nd Place Winner, "I'm Your Community Guide!" Contest
July 18, 2012
Community Guide UseThe Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron, Ohio used The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to develop, implement, and evaluate a diabetes management program, which resulted in a combined weight loss of 115.1 pounds and 22.8 point body mass index (BMI) decrease in 14 ...
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Central Michigan District Health Department: 3rd Place Winner, "I'm Your Community Guide!" Contest
July 18, 2012
Community Guide UseThe Central Michigan District Health Department (CMDHD) used The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to complete and approve the 2012 Together We Can Community Health Assessment and Health Improvement Plan, their strategic plan, to improve health in their com...
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Adoption and Use of Evidence-Based Practices in Public Health: 2012 Success Stories from PHF's "I'm Your Community Guide!" Contest
July 18, 2012
In February 2012, the Public Health Foundation (PHF) launched the 2012 “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest to help identify model practices for implementing the evidence-based strategies outlined in the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide). Success stories were submitted into the...
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Performance Management Applications in Public Health
July 2, 2012
As part of the Turning Point Performance Management Refresh activity and the development of the Performance Management Toolkit, the Public Health Foundation (PHF) compiled examples of performance management applications in public health. These one-page overviews demonstrate how health departments have...
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Strategic Practice Selection Exercise
June 29, 2012
The Strategic Practice Selection Exercise is a data driven decision making exercise to show how health departments can use a strategic practice selection process to assess the availability, affordability, accessibility, and utility of potential interventions. The priority areas selected for this exercise...
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National Public Health Improvement Initiative Quality Improvement Stories
June 29, 2012
The National Public Health Improvement Initiative, funded through the Prevention and Public Health Fund of the Affordable Care Act, has provided the opportunity for state, tribal, local, and territorial health departments to receive technical assistance from the Public Health Foundation and other national...
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Examples Demonstrating Attainment of the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
June 26, 2012
The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) are a consensus set of skills identified by the Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice (Council on Linkages) as being desirable for the delivery of the Essential Public Health Services. To support use...
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