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Front Matter	i-xviii
Executive Summary	1-22	(skim)
1 Introduction	23-39	(skim)
2 Understanding Health and Its Determinants	40-58	(skim)
3 Managing a Shared Responsibility for the Health of a Community	59-76	(skim)
4 A Community Health Improvement Process	77-125	(skim)
5 Measurement Tools for a Community Health Improvement Process	126-165	(skim)
6 Conclusions and Recommendations	166-180	(skim)
A Prototype Performance Indicator Sets	181-188	(skim)
A.1 Breast and Cervical Cancers	189-204	(skim)
A.2 Depression	205-228	(skim)
A.3 Elder Health	229-241	(skim)
A.4 Environmental and Occupational Lead Poisoning	242-261	(skim)
A.5 Health Care Resource Allocation	262-275	(skim)
A.6 Infant Health	276-299	(skim)
A.7 Tobacco and Health	300-323	(skim)
A.8 Vaccine-Preventable Diseases	324-344	(skim)
A.9 Violence	345-359	(skim)
B Methodological Issues in Developing Community Health Profiles and Performance Indicator Sets Michael A. Stoto	360-373	(skim)
C Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Exploring the Issues (Workshop Summary)	374-415	(skim)
D Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Conceptual Framework and Community Experience (Workshop Summary)	416-451	(skim)
E Committee Biographies	452-459	(skim)
Acronyms	460-462	(skim)
Index	463-478	(skim)

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Improving Health in the Community explains how population-based performance monitoring programs can help communities point their efforts to protect and improve the health of their populations in the right direction. The book offers a policy framework, applies a multidimensional model of the determinants of health, and provides sets of prototype performance indicators for specific health issues.

Improving Health in the Community:

A Role for Performance Monitoring

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