The Public Health Foundation and its partners are pleased to announce the launch of the Community Health Status Indicators (CHSI) website. CHSI has updated county level data (covering 1994 - 2006) viewable online or in easy to download reports.

Each of the 3,141 reports, one for each county in the United States, provides public health officials, public health system partners, policy makers, and consumers with a snapshot of the health status of a community to make monitoring and addressing health issues easier.

Each report includes Healthy People 2010 targets, national rates, and peer counties (i.e., counties of
similar population size, age distribution, and poverty) for comparison purposes. Data indicators include information on vulnerable populations, measures of health, national leading causes of death, risk factors for premature death, measures of birth and death, relative health importance, environmental health risk factors, preventive services use, and access to care, among others.

For more information on health indicator definitions, sources, and methods used in the CHSI Reports, please access Data Sources, Definitions, and Notes: Community Health Status Indicators 2008.

In an effort to offer a comprehensive line of quality improvement resources to public health and healthcare professionals, PHF's online store is now distributing a line of quality improvement products from national experts. These products supplement other products PHF has developed and distributes, such as "From Silos to Systems: Using Performance Management to Improve the Public's Health." Click here to view these products carried by PHF's online store.

	PHF Assembles QI Evaluation Team

PHF assembled a quality improvement (QI) evaluation team in December 2008 to help public health agencies and systems evaluate their QI efforts. Click here to read about our QI Evaluation Team. In a drive to help public health systems save lives, cut costs, and get better results by managing performance, PHF provides a comprehensive set of performance management (PM) and QI services. Through training, technical assistance, and coaching and collaborations with partners in quality improvement and public health, PHF helps public health organizations harness proven quality improvement techniques to benefit the public's health, drawing on the best available research, resources, and expertise from the private, public, and academic sectors. Visit PHF's: Quality Improvement Learning Series Catalog: The catalog provides public health agencies and organizations with a wide variety of QI programs, tools and techniques, which they will need to be successful in the implementation and expansion of QI. Currently, there are 27 courses in QI (basic, intermediate and advanced levels) and eight consulting services available QI Consultants Biographical Sketches Contact Jacalyn Carden at (202) 218-4415 or jcarden@phf.org to learn more about how PHF can customize its PM & QI technical assistance and training services to fit your particular public health needs.

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