This study reveals that PHAB-accredited health departments in Kentucky produce higher-quality public health planning documents and highlights opportunities to support all LHDs through better tools, resources, and collaboration frameworks.
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Earning Certification in Infection Control (CIC) helps local health departments strengthen their workforce and improve collaboration, credibility, and infection prevention and control efforts.
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In a new JPHMP study, small health departments found they could reap the benefits of national accreditation by using a team approach, collaborating with other health departments, training and mentoring staff new to public health, and planning ahead.
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Quality Improvement (QI) and Performance Management (PM) are important tools for health department effectiveness.
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Targeted programs are needed to engage patients and improve diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) completion at local health departments (LHDs).
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We need to build on lessons learned in developing and implementation of a Uniform Chart of Accounts to foster a post-pandemic public health finance infrastructure that will support a robust and accountable public health future.
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Local health department managers found they could support integration of evidence-based decision making into day-to-day public health practice through a variety of internal procedures.
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Through examination of LHDs’ performance score in PHAB accreditation standards, we were able to demonstrate use of individual PHAB standards as an instrument to measure and compare LHDs’ performance, and support the existing evidence that accreditation is fostering LHDs’ quality improvement in public health systems for capacity to promote population health. In our article “Local Health Departments’ Characteristics and Their
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It is vital to ensure that PHAB accreditation is accomplished in a way that maximizes its impact on health equity and does not systematically leave out jurisdictions. In our article titled, “An Analysis of How Characteristics of Local Health Department Jurisdictions Influence Involvement in PHAB Accreditation: Implications for Health Equity,” my colleague, Ashlyn Lipnicky and I set out to explore
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EDITORIAL NOTE: The situation regarding Novel Coronavirus is still rapidly evolving. For the most current information, please consult the websites for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the World Health Organization. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) to be a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” (PHEIC). On January 31, Health and
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