Reducing the Negative Impact of Asthma in Knox County Schools
October 4, 2011
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The Knox County Health Department (KCHD) and the Knox County Schools (KCS) participated in a rapid Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle with the goal of reducing the negative impact of asthma on KCS....
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TRAIN Data Dictionary
September 26, 2011
The TRAIN Data Dictionary is a repository of information about data fields, contents/elements, relationships to other data, usage, and format within the TRAIN site. This document contains over 200 entries of definitions pertaining to topics such as Course Registrations, Course Attributes, Sessions-Schedule,...
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TRAIN Data Use Agreement DUA
September 26, 2011
The TRAIN Data Use Agreement is a standard Third Party Recipient Data Use Agreement between a qualified recipient, the releasing agency, and the sponsoring organization, which is the Public Health Foundation. The document details the length of the terms of agreement, the extent of the data set to be...
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Diverse QI Methods All Lead to Success: Increased Immunization Rates in Three Ohio Counties
September 16, 2011
Optimizing immunization rates was a goal of Healthy People 2010. Health departments from three different Ohio Counties used Quality Improvement (QI) methods to raise their DTaP series (4 shot series) immunization rates. The project began with a joint QI training in which each health department team...
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St. James-Santee Family Health Center: 1st Place Winner, “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest
July 27, 2011
Community Guide UseThe St. James-Santee Family Health Center used The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to implement a breast and cervical cancer screening promotion program, which increased Pap smear and mammogram rates by 10% and decreased missed appointment rates by 30%...
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Duval County Health Department: 2nd Place Winner, “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest
July 27, 2011
Community Guide UseThe Duval County Health Department used vaccination findings and recommendations from The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to increase 4:3:1:3:3:1 series immunization rates among their two-year-old population by 15% in two years. Click the PDF icon to ...
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Whidbey General Hospital: 3rd Place Winner, “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest
July 27, 2011
Community Guide UseWhidbey General Hospital used tobacco interventions from The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to achieve a tobacco quit rate of 35-40% in one year. Click the PDF icon to download the full text of this Community Guide success story.
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Increasing Tob...
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Adoption and Use of Evidence-Based Practices in Public Health: Success Stories from PHF’s “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest
July 26, 2011
In June 2011, the Public Health Foundation’s “I’m Your Community Guide!” Contest helped to identify model practices for implementing the evidence-based strategies outlined in the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide). Fourteen success stories were entered into the contest, which...
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Assessing and Building a Culture of Quality Improvement in Your Agency Presentation
July 12, 2011
These slides provide an overview of the culture of quality improvement (QI), the steps needed to build and change organizational culture, becoming aware of the six indicators of a culture, and how to rate an organization’s culture using a radar chart. These slides are excerpted from a presentation...
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Applying QI Techniques to Analyze Problems and Find Solutions Presentation
July 12, 2011
These presentation slides provide a basic introduction to quality improvement (QI) as it pertains to the National Public Health Performance Standards (NPHPS) and other public health initiatives and activities. Topics in the presentation include the purpose and usage of basic QI problem solving tools,...
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