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Community Experience with Performance Monitoring
Pages 12-16

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From page 12...
... Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc. COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE WITH PERFORMANCE MONITORING The committee heard presentations from five panelists describing health improvement programs in their communities.
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From page 13...
... The health priorities selected for the county through the first application of the McPLAN process were environmental health, unintentional injuries, and cardiovascular disease. The performance-based budgeting process has been used to incorporate health assessment findings into local public health programming and other stakeholder organization initiatives.
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... resulted in community-wide efforts to address childhood immunizations, improve access to health care for the medically indigent, develop joint grant applications, and begin discussion about a community-wide human services needs assessment in McHenry County. City of Escondido Health Care and Community Services Project 7 The goal of the Health Care and Community Services Project is to reduce the harmful effects of alcohol and other drug use in the community of Escondido, California (population, 120,000; county population, 2.6 million)
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... The NSCHNA was one of three pilot efforts for the CHNA initiative, which began in 1992. It serves as an advocate for public health ideals, strengthens the public health team, focuses on the consumer, increases affiliations by integrating services with larger health systems, and deemphasizes specific illnesses.
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... In 1995, immunization rates measured by the National Immunization Survey were 77 percent.~° Provider education is a key component of the program. Once an immunization rate of 80-90 percent is reached, TAPII activities may be expanded to include parent education.
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