Program Audit—A Device for Reflecting Public Health Performance

A model for public health workforce development using the National Public Health Performance Standards Program.

Workforce development programs in public health should link improvements in workers' performance with improvements in their agencies' performance. The "ten essential services" of public health provide criteria for measuring both individual worker training (as in workforce competency standards) and agency performance (as in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Public Health ...

Public health performance management: opportunities for environmental public health.

edi tor ’s note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will high...

Graduate Program in Public Health

Takemi Program in International Health Harvard School of Public Health Performance and Efficiency of Public Hospitals in Mexico

3 Introduction 4 Overview of the Health System 5 Hospital System 7 Poverty, Burden of Disease, and Hospital Beds 8 Expenditures for Curative Services 10 Methods to Assess Hospital Performance 11 Hospital’s Capacity and Utilization 13 Hospital Performance 15 Discussion 16 Implications for Management 19 Implications for Policy 20 Limitations 20 Conclusions 21 References 22

Linking public health agencies and hospitals for improved emergency preparedness: North Carolina's public health epidemiologist program

BACKGROUND In 2003, 11 public health epidemiologists were placed in North Carolina's largest hospitals to enhance communication between public health agencies and healthcare systems for improved emergency preparedness. We describe the specific services public health epidemiologists provide to local health departments, the North Carolina Division of Public Health, and the hospitals in which they...