Measuring health performance in the public sector : a summary of two reports / / Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants, Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961763403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c1999
• ISBN: 9780309184335; 0309184339; 9780309520065; 0309520061; 9780585143620; 0585143625
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (48 p.)
• Collana: The Compass series
• Disciplina: 614.4/273
• Soggetti: Health surveys - United States - Methodology; Public health - United States - Information services; Public health - United States - Evaluation; Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care - methods; Public Health Practice - standards; Public Health Administration - standards; 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.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Assessment of Performance Measures for Public Health, Substance Abuse, and Mental Health""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Introduction and Framework""; ""Contents""; ""Health Performance Measurement in the Public Sector""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Potential Health Outcome and Risk Status Measures""; ""Contents""
• Sommario/riassunto: The Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants was established at the request of the U.; S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Its charge is to examine the state of the art in performance measurement for public health and to recommend measures that could be used to monitor the Performance Partnership Grant agreements to be negotiated between each state and the federal government. The panel was asked to consider performance measures in ten areas, which are clearly a subset of the full range of traditional public health concerns: chronic diseases; sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, and tuberculosis; mental health; immunization; substance abuse; and three areas of prevention of special interest to DHHS-sexual assault, disabilities, and emergency medical services. This report focuses on measures that states and the federal government can use over the next 3 to 5 years to negotiate agreements and monitor performance in these areas. A later report will examine additional measures that might be developed from new research findings on program effectiveness or as improvements are made to state and federal surveys and data systems.