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Leveraging the revised National Public Health Performance Standards to meet today's ever-changing public health system landscape
Daub T , Doshi S , Elligers JJ , Pavletic D , Pyron T . J Public Health Manag Pract 2014 20 (1) 135-7 This article is a commentary on leveraging the revised National Public Health Performance Standards to meet today's ever-changing public health system landscape. | The role of health departments in delivering the 10 essential public health services (EPHS) is important to fulfilling public health's mission to ensure the conditions in which people can be healthy.1,2 This mission has never been one that can be achieved by health departments acting alone.1,2 However, recent public health program cuts and job losses have highlighted a need for increased collaboration between health departments and their system partners.3 The 2010 passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act also generated new opportunities for health departments to work with system partners to improve the public's health.4,5 | For the past decade, the National Public Health Performance Standards (NPHPS), versions 1 and 2, have offered tools to assess the performance of state and local public health systems (PHS) on the 10 EPHS.6,7 In 2013, these NPHPS were revised (version 3) to provide health departments and their system partners with an updated tool for assessing and improving performance within the context of existing organizational challenges and a constantly changing landscape of public health services. With the release of NPHPS version 3 and the 2011 launch of a national public health agency accreditation system by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), both agency and system performance improvement tools now exist. |
CDC/NACCHO Accreditation Support Initiative: advancing readiness for local and tribal health department accreditation
Monteiro E , Fisher JS , Daub T , Zamperetti MC . J Public Health Manag Pract 2014 20 (1) 14-9 CONTEXT: Health departments have various unique needs that must be addressed in preparing for national accreditation. These needs require time and resources, shortages that many health departments face. OBJECTIVE: The Accreditation Support Initiative's goal was to test the assumption that even small amounts of dedicated funding can help health departments make important progress in their readiness to apply for and achieve accreditation. DESIGN: Participating sites' scopes of work were unique to the needs of each site and based on the proposed activities outlined in their applications. Deliverables and various sources of data were collected from sites throughout the project period (December 2011-May 2012). SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: Awardees included 1 tribal and 12 local health departments, as well as 5 organizations supporting the readiness of local and tribal health departments. RESULTS: Sites dedicated their funding toward staff time, accreditation fees, completion of documentation, and other accreditation readiness needs and produced a number of deliverables and example documents. All sites indicated that they made accreditation readiness gains that would not have occurred without this funding. CONCLUSIONS: Preliminary evaluation data from the first year of the Accreditation Support Initiative indicate that flexible funding arrangements may be an effective way to increase health departments' accreditation readiness. |
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