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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778664403321

Titolo

Improving health in the community [[electronic resource] ] : a role for performance monitoring / / Committee on Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health ; Jane S. Durch, Linda A. Bailey, and Michael A. Stoto, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1997

ISBN

0-309-17537-2

0-309-52081-9

0-585-02106-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DurchJane

BaileyLinda A

StotoMichael A

Disciplina

362.1/2

Soggetti

Community health services - United States - Evaluation

Health status indicators - United States

Health promotion - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Understanding Health and Its Determinants""; ""3 Managing a Shared Responsibility for the Health of a Community""; ""4 A Community Health Improvement Process""; ""5 Measurement Tools for a Community Health Improvement Process""; ""6 Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""A Prototype Performance Indicator Sets""; ""A.1 Prototype Indicator Set: Breast and Cervical Cancers""; ""A.2 Prototype Indicator Set: Depression""; ""A.3 Prototype Indicator Set: Elder Health""

""A.4 Prototype Indicator Set: Environmental and Occupational Lead Poisoning""""A.5 Prototype Indicator Set: Health Care Resource Allocation""; ""A.6 Prototype Indicator Set: Infant Health""; ""A.7 Prototype Indicator Set: Tobacco and Health""; ""A.8 Prototype Indicator Set: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases""; ""A.9 Prototype Indicator Set: Violence""; ""B Methodological Issues in Developing Community Health



Profiles and Performance Indicator Sets""; ""Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Exploring the Issues""

""D Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Conceptual Framework and Community Experience""""E Committee Biographies""; ""Acronyms""; ""Index""