Resources & Tools

The Public Health Improvement Resource Center is an online database is managed by the Public Health Foundation (PHF), and offers resources developed by colleagues and partners throughout the field to help build and improve public health systems. The resources support the initiation and continuation...

When to Apply QI Tools to Support Measurement Activities

March 27, 2013

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) and the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) have worked collaboratively to develop a tool to help public health organizations identify and apply quality improvement (QI) tools to support measurement activities. The tool is designed to be used alongside...

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...

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...

3-Step Competency Prioritization Sequence

February 13, 2012

The Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies) define a broad array of professional development areas a public health organization may wish to consider in designing and executing a workforce development plan—a key requirement for Public Health Department Accreditation. However,...

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,...

Public Health Memory Jogger II

July 16, 2010

PHF partnered with leading performance improvement organization GOAL/QPC to develop a quality improvement pocket guide for public health – the Public Health Memory Jogger II. The Jogger contains 22 of the most important quality improvement, management and planning tools with real-life examples...

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...

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