Improving health in the community a role for performance monitoring (National Academy Press, 1997)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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