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Progress on Public Health Accreditation & Quality Improvement in Utah

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 : 1:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Paul Wightman, MPA , Utah Public Health Association, Millcreek, UT
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
This presentation will include the current progress of Utah's state, local and tribal public health deprtment's Quality Improvement and PHAB Accreditation efforts; focus in Utah's urban/rural department involvement and a potential "improvement gap" preceived and possibly real barriers to implementing quality efforts

Learning Areas:

Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related public policy
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
Describe the assessments of health status of all Utah Public Health Dept. Accreditation efforts as of the date of this Presentation. Compare the differences in agency leadership interest in Quality Improvement and Accreditation between the rural and urban agencies in Utah. List some of the public health quality "Successes’ outlined from leadership in Utah’s state, local and tribal agencies.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have written and co-written multiple federal and non-profit grants which have been funded for public health programs and organizational development and quality improvement. My science of public health interests have been in planning and the practice of program and organizational improvement, best practices, financial and technological excellence.
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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