Module 3 lecture part 1 Flashcards
What was covered in the IOM Report of 1988?
Articulated the mission, substance, and core function of PH
In the IOM Report of 1988, what was the PH mission?
“assuring conditions in which ppl can be healthy”
In the IOM Report of 1988, what was considered the substance of PH?
“organized community efforts aimed at the prevention of dz and the promotion of health”
According to the IOM Report of 1988, what is the governmental role?
To see that vital elements are in place and the mission is being adequately addressed
What are the core functions of PH?
Assessment
Policy development
Assurance
What does assessment call for?
Regularly and systematically collect, assemble, analyze, and make available information on the health of the community
What does policy development call for?
Serve the public interest in the development of comprehensive PH policies by promoting the use of the scientific knowledge based in decision-making about public health and by leading and developing PH policy.
What does assurance call for?
Assure their constituents that services necessary to achieve agreed on goals are provided either by encouraging actions, by requiring such action through regulation, or by providing services directly
What essential functions are part of assessment?
Monitor health status to identify and solve community health issues
Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community
What essential functions are part of policy development?
Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts
What essential functions are part of assurance?
Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety
Link people with needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable
Assure a competent PH and personal healthcare workforce
Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.
What essential function is part of cross cutting?
Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems
What is involved in monitoring health status?
Ongoing assessment of community health status
Identification of threats to health
Determination of health service needs
Attention to special high risk populations
Identification of community assets and resources
Interpretation and communication
Managing multisectoral information systems
What is involved in diagnosing and investigating?
Access to PH lab capabilities
Active Inf Dz and environmental surveillance activities
Technical and human resource capacity for thorough investigation of dz, outbreaks and patterns of dz, injury, health behaviors, and conditions
What is involved in inform, educate, and empower?
Community organization
Social marketing and targeted communication
Provision of accessible health information
Collaboration with health care providers on health messages and programs
Joint health education efforts with media, schools, churches, work sites, etc.
What is involved in mobilizing partnerships?
Convening and facilitating partnerships
Undertaking defined health improvement planning efforts and projects
Building coalitions to draw upon the full range of potential human and material resources to improve community health
What is involved in developing policies and plans?
Leadership development at all levels
Systematic community-wide planning for health improvement
Developing and tracking goals and objectives
Joint evaluation with medical care system
Development of policy and legislation to achieve public health goals
What is involved in enforcing laws and regulations?
Enforcement of sanitary codes
Protection of drinking water supplies
Enforcement of clean air standards
Animal control
F/u of hazards, preventable injuries, and exposure-related dzs
Monitoring quality of medical services
Review of new drugs, biologics, and medical devices
What is involved in linking to and assuring care?
Assurance of effective access and entry
Culturally and linguistically appropriate materials and staff
Ongoing care management
Transportation services
Targeted outreach and education for high-risk groups
What is involved in assuring a competent workforce?
Education, training, assessment of personnel
Efficient processes for licensure and credentialing
Adoption of continuous quality improvement and lifelong learning programs
Active partnerships with professional training programs
Continuing education in management and leadership development programs
What is involved in evaluating effectiveness, accessibility, and quality?
Assessing program effectiveness
Providing info necessary for allocating resources and reshaping programs
What is involved in research and innovation?
Participation in and support for full continuum of innovation
Ongoing linkage with institutions of higher learning
Internal capacity to mount timely epidemiologic and economic analyses and conduct health services research
What is a summation of EPHS (Essential public health services)?
Linked to core functions, articulated by the IOM report in 1988.
Cyclical and continuous process
Managed at the systems level as well as program level
Enhanced through active research
Organizing framework for individual and collective practice today
What does the PHAB do?
The Public Health Accreditation Board runs a voluntary national accreditation program for state and local PH organizations
Further functions of the PHAB
Recognizes achievement of accreditation within a specific time frame
Measures performance against a set of nationally recognized, practice-focused and evidence-based standards
Ongoing development, improvement, and deployment of PH practice standards
How were the standards and processes for accreditation developed?
Based on the 10 essential PH services (EPHS) framework
