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PHF E-News brings you the latest ideas and tools for quality improvement and workforce development in public health.
The 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak demonstrates how fundamental public health processes are for effectively responding to any public health emergency. Preparedness for an even greater H1N1 outbreak will be strengthened if the public health community uses quality improvement (QI) methods and tools to integrate lessons learned from the recent outbreak into pandemic flu plans. This paper describes how these methods and tools, such as flow charting, radar charts, cause and effect diagrams, the five whys technique, and rapid cycle Plan-Do-Check-Act, can be used to review and refresh state and local pandemic flu plans and improve community outcomes. Read more...
As communities revise their pandemic flu plans in preparation for the fall flu season, it is important to maintain ethical standards while charting a course for action. The Ethical Standards in Pandemic Flu Planning and Response Video is just one of many preparedness resources available through PHF's Online Store. PHF's Online Store is now offering special prices on this video in addition to more than 150 other resources.
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 (QI) products from national experts. These products supplement other products PHF has developed and distributes, such as "The Public Health Quality Improvement Handbook" and "From Silos to Systems: Using Performance Management to Improve the Public's Health." Click here to view QI products carried by PHF's Online Store.
There is much effort going into mitigating asthma in the U.S. and yet asthma has increased over the past two decades. With funding from AstraZeneca, PHF held three regional meetings involving eight states during November and December 2008. Using quality improvement (QI) techniques, public health professionals working on asthma prevention and control were asked to identify (1) strategies that worked to prevent and control asthma; (2) strategies that have failed to achieve desired results; (3) characteristics (e.g. social, political, and community contexts) contributing to and/or facilitating success, and (4) characteristics confounding desired results and/or success. The final report is now available and contains reflections from this meeting and many state and national resources. Under a second phase of this asthma prevention and control initiative, PHF is building on what was learned from the three regional meetings using a mini- collaborative and/or team structure and QI methodology to help three to five communities achieve measurable improvement in asthma prevention and/or control.
Preventing childhood obesity has become a critical need for our communities and a major new responsibility for our nation's public health system. While there are emerging evidence-based strategies that can help prevent childhood obesity, the effective application of these strategies and development of new and even better practices will require the use of performance management and quality improvement (QI) techniques - techniques widely used by other sectors to achieve better results. Childhood Obesity: Getting Started for Better Outcomes provides learners with a foundation in performance management and QI concepts and exercises to learn public health applications, and gives participants tools and confidence to get started using QI to benefit community health. Developed by PHF and the Delmarva Foundation, this online course is free and available on TRAIN. Funding was provided by the Quality Health Foundation.
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