Transforming the Narrative on Health Improvement

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Date: 5/18/2018 9:55 AM

Tag: Community Health Improvement Plan, Population Health, Population Health Competencies, Technical Assistance

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The solutions to complex health challenges must be innovative and interdisciplinary. Each step along the way – assessing needs, developing improvement plans, implementing tactics, monitoring progress, and adjusting strategies in real time – depends upon deploying a transformative approach that finds consensus, maintains momentum, and modulates in response to dynamic factors.

Tailored Services

The Public Health Foundation (PHF) has tailored services to support public health, population health, and community leaders on this health improvement journey. Services include:

Transformational Leadership Training – Build the leadership skills necessary to work with traditional and non-traditional partners to improve their community’s health.
Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) Tune-up – Apply quality improvement tools to help get the CHIP off the shelf and into practice.
Mapping Solutions with Population Health Driver Diagrams – Facilitate mapping the primary and secondary drivers of a specific population health challenge to target interventions that can be developed and implemented.
Implementing Innovative Solutions – Take action to address community and population health challenges through a collaborative, coordinated, and continuous process involving community partners.
Solving a Population Health Challenge – A comprehensive engagement to improve outcomes and foster sustainable improvement on priority population health challenges.

To learn more about these transformative services, contact Ron Bialek at (202)218-4420 or rbialek@phf.org. You can also submit your information online.

New Book

PHF Senior Quality Advisor John W. (Jack) Moran's 2018 book, Transforming Community Health through Leadership touches many of the lessons included in PHF’s customized Transformational Leadership Training series. Discounts on book purchases are available; see the promotional flyer for details.

Population Health Competencies

The Priority Competencies for Population Health Professionals (Population Health Competencies) describe desired skills for population health professionals. Based on the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals (Core Competencies), the Population Health Competencies are primarily designed for non-clinical hospital, health system, public health, and healthcare professionals engaged in assessment of population health needs and development, delivery, and improvement of population health programs, services, and practices. This may include activities related to community health needs assessments, community health improvement plans, implementation of community-based interventions, and coalition building. The current draft contains 33 competencies organized into five domains: Community Health Assessment, Community Health Improvement Planning and Action, Community Engagement and Cultural Awareness, Systems Thinking, and Organizational Planning and Management.

The Population Health Competencies align with the Core Competencies, a set of foundational skills for public health professionals, and can help strengthen the connection between public health and healthcare. These competencies can be used to guide population health workforce development, including the creation of training, training plans, and academic curricula, as well as job descriptions, performance objectives, and more to support the population health workforce.

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