Improving health in the community : a role for performance monitoring /
Institute of Medicine (U.S.).Committee on Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health.
Durch, Jane.
Bailey, Linda A.
Stoto, Michael A.
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press,
1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Understanding health and its determinants -- Managing a shared responsibility for the health of a community -- A community health improvement process -- Measurement tools for a community health improvement process -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Appendixes - A. Prototype performance indicator sets -- Breast and cervical cancers -- Depression -- Elder health -- Environmental and occupational lead poisoning -- Health care resource allocation -- Infant health -- Tobacco and health -- Vaccine-preventable diseases -- Violence -- B. Methodological issues in developing community health profiles and performance indicator sets -- C. Using performance monitoring to improve community health: exploring the issues (workshop summary) -- D. Using performance monitoring to improve community health: conceptual framework and community experience (workshop summary) -- E. Committee biographies -- Acronyms.
Community health services
Health status indicators
Health promotion