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Public Health Aims for Quality: Advances in Implementation
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
: 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Rohit Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH
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Public Health Leadership Program, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
In 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services developed the Nine Public Health Aims for Quality (PHAQ) to guide practitioners in assessing and improving the quality of public health programs and policies. In this presentation, we describe how the PHAQ were used to identify and create quality measures for evidence-based interventions to address the Leading Heath Indicators (LHI) for Healthy People 2020. There are many policies and programs that can affect a population health topic measured by a LHI, and the PHAQ provide valuable guidelines about how the quality of these programs can be measured. These measures were presented to a quality panel whose members provided inputs into areas for future metrics development and enhancement of measures. We will discuss the practical implications of identifying valuable measures for which no public health data is currently available.
Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadership
Public health administration or related administration
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate how the PHAQ can be used to create metrics for evidence based policies and programs to achieve the LHIs
Explain the role of the PHAQ in measuring the quality of policies and programs
Explain the role of data availability when selecting or creating measures supported by evidence
Keyword(s): Quality Improvement, Public Health Research
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have over 25 years of both domestic and global experieince in quality
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.
