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Opportunities to Advance Quality Improvement in Public Health
The concepts and use of quality improvement are not new to public health, but precise enumeration of quality improvement activities in public health has been problematic. Further, the context for, and advancement of, quality improvement in public health is still being defined. Nevertheless, quality improvement, along with voluntary accreditation, is critical to improving the performance of state and local public health agencies.
In the 2008 profile of local health departments, 55 percent reported conducting quality improvement activities. If these activities are to move beyond sporadic, one-time applications, all strategies in the ecological framework suggested in this article, must be implemented. In particular, strategies to train and engage public health leaders as champions for quality improvement and supporters of a quality improvement culture need to be created and implemented.
Special Journal Issue Highlights Quality Improvement (QI) in Public Health
- 1 Quality Improvement in Public Health
- 2 Quality Improvement and Performance
- 3 Achieving a Culture of Quality Improvement
- 4 Defining Quality Improvement in Public Health
- 5 Opportunities to Advance Quality Improvement in Public Health
- 6 Supporting Public Health Departments' Quality Improvement Initiatives
- 7 The National Public Health Performance Standards
- 8 Taking Improvement Action Based on Performance Results
- 9 State Landscape in Public Health Planning and Quality Improvement
- 10 The Quality Improvement Experience in a High-Performing Local Health Department
- 11 Quality Improvement in Local Health Departments
- 12 Promoting Quality Improvement and Achieving Measurable Change
- 13 Evaluating the Multi-State Learning Collaborative
- 14 Driving Quality Improvement in Local Public Health Practice
- 15 Realizing Transformational Change Through Quality Improvement in Public Health
- 16 Quality Improvement and Accreditation