Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.