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Improving Health in the Community: A Role for Performance Monitoring (1997)
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Improving Health in the Community: A Role for Performance Monitoring

 

Reduce financial barriers to health care services

Percentage of employees with health insurance that covers at least 80 percent of costs of prenatal care, delivery, and well child care

Community survey; employer survey

Health care plans

Local government

Business, industry

General public

Physical Environment

Reduce exposure to environmental tobacco smoke

Percentage of smokers living in homes with pregnant women or children <1 year of age

Community survey

General public

Health Care

Ensure access to specialty care for high-risk births

Percentage of infants weighing <1,500 grams at birth born in facilities designated level II or III perinatal care centers

Health plan records; hospital discharge records

Health care providers

Health care plans

State health agencies

Local health agencies

Special health risk groups

General public

 

Ensure timely preventive care

Percentage of 1-year-olds who have received all recommended immunizations

Immunization registry or medical charts

Health care providers

Health care plans

State health agencies

Local health agencies

General public

NOTE: AFDC, Aid to Families with Dependent Children; WIC, Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children.

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