Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #120654

Ed Thompson, MD, MPH, Director for Public Health Services, DHHS/CDC/OD, CLET, Mailstop: D14, Atlanta, GA 00000, 404-639-7000, fet1@cdc.gov

The National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP) is a collaborative effort to enhance the Nation's public health systems. Seven national public health organizations have partnered to develop national performance standards for state and local public health systems, based on the framework of the ten essential public health services. Numerous state public health systems, local public health systems, and boards of health have used the national standards since the launch of the NPHPSP in 2002 and find it a valuable tool for assessing public health activities and identifying opportunities for improvement.

Concurrently, there is emerging national interest in accreditation of public health agencies. A national dialogue has been initiated to explore how such a system could be structured. New accreditation efforts can build from already-existing initiatives such as the NPHPSP and state-established accreditation and standards programs. This session will provide a venue for describing the NPHPSP and current activities in accreditation and agency-specific standards, and for discussion of connections between these initiatives.

Learning Objectives: At the end of the session, participants should be able

• To articulate the current activities in establishing and providing standards for public health;
• To understand the ability of the NPHPSP to measure current performance and capacities at the state and local levels;
• To understand the status of public health agency accreditation efforts

Keywords: Accreditation, Performance Measurement

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

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