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Another factor has been the wider recognition that the health of the population depends on many services beyond medical care. Also Important has been a heightened interest in accountability, fostered by various health care reform proposals and by He broader efforts to "reinvent government." An interest in understanding how health care and public health activities might be coordinated and directed toward improving the health of entire communities is the basis of a study by the Institute of Medicine's (IOM)
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Presentin;, definitions of unportant concepts in performance monitoring will be essential to ensure that the committee's meaning is clear. An important task for the committee will be developing prototypical sets of indicators that communities can use to monitor specific health issues and the role that public health agencies, personal health care organizations, and other entities with a stake in these matters could be expected to play in addressing those issues.
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