221941 “Improving environmental health practice through the use of the national Environmental Public Health Performance Standards (EnvPHPS)"

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 : 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Sarah Kotchian, EdM, MPH, PhD , Sarah Kotchian Consulting, Albuquerque, NM
     
All communities are entitled to excellent environmental quality and public health services. The Environmental Public Health Performance Standards have been developed by CDC to help agencies assess how well they are meeting this goal. Results from the use of the national Environmental Public Health Performance Standards (EnvPHPS) show that the tool is consistent in identifying community inequities and gaps in agency performance, and that the use of the tool leads to improvements in community environmental health services, and greater community involvement in and knowledge about environmental health issues and strategies. Participants will learn how the EnvPHPS have been used by programs around the country to improve local, state, and tribal community environmental health services, and will hear about specific examples of results. Participants will also be provided with specific hands-on information on how they can access and use the free Standards and related tools in their own agencies to improve the equity, effectiveness, and performance of the services they provide.

Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadership
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Program planning
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to describe the value of the national Environmental Public Health Performance Standards in improving the equity, effectiveness and performance of community environmental health services 2. Participants will be able to list at least three examples of environmental health programs around the country that have used the EnvPHPS to assess and then address gaps in environmental health services 3. Participants will be able to name at least three resources available at no cost on the internet to help agencies assess the gaps in their services and to improve their performance

Keywords: Environment, Performance Measures

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Dr. Kotchian is an experienced former environmental health administrator, and for the past five years has assisted in the development, pilot testing, assessment, and revision of the draft national Environmental Public Health Performance Standards. She is also a former accreditation site visitor for the Council on Education for Public Health, and a former member of the board of two accrediting bodies, the Council on Education for Public Health and the National Environmental Health and Protection Accreditation Council.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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