Improving Health in the Community

Jane S. Durch, Linda A. Bailey, and Michael A. Stoto, Editors; Committee on Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health, Institute of Medicine

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Understanding Health and Its Determinants; 5 3 Managing a Shared Responsibility for the Health of a Community; 6 4 A Community Health Improvement Process; 7 5 Measurement Tools for a Community Health Improvement Process; 8 6 Conclusions and Recommendations; 9 A Prototype Performance Indicator Sets; 10 A.1 Breast and Cervical Cancers; 11 A.2 Depression; 12 A.3 Elder Health; 13 A.4 Environmental and Occupational Lead Poisoning; 14 A.5 Health Care Resource Allocation; 15 A.6 Infant Health; 16 A.7 Tobacco and Health; 17 A.8 Vaccine-Preventable Diseases; 18 A.9 Violence; 19 B Methodological Issues in Developing Community Health Profiles and Performance Indicator Sets Michael A. Stoto; 20 C Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Exploring the Issues (Workshop Summary); 21 D Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Conceptual Framework and Community Experience (Workshop Summary); 22 E Committee Biographies; 23 Acronyms; 24 Index