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Reports
General Public Health Resources
Foundations Supporting Public Health
Reports
The Institute of Medicine's 2002 Report, The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reviews the nation's public health capabilities and presents a comprehensive framework for how the government public health agencies, working with multiple partners from the public and private sectors as an intersectoral public health system, can better assure the health of communities by:
- Adopting a population health approach that considers the multiple determinants of health
- Strengthening the governmental public health infrastructure, the backbone of the public health system
- Building a new generation of intersectoral partnerships
- Requiring accountability from and among all sectors of the public health system
- Making evidence the foundation of decision-making
- Enhancing and facilitating communication within the public health system http://www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=4304
Healthy People 2010: Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats. http://www.healthypeople.gov/default.htm
General Public Health Resources:
The Determinants of Health: The Canadian government has stated "we can address health issues by broadening our approach to health interventions. We've learned a lot in the past several decades about what determines health and where we should be concentrating our efforts. Much of the research is telling us that we need to look at the big picture of health to examine factors both inside and outside the health care system that affect our health. At every stage of life, health is determined by complex interactions between social and economic factors, the physical environment and individual behavior. These factors are referred to as 'determinants of health'. They do not exist in isolation from each other. It is the combined influence of the determinants of health that determines health status." This website provides a range of resources about Health Determinants. See Determinants of Health
Turning Point: Turning Point's underlying philosophy is that public health agencies and their partners can be strengthened by linking to other sectors (not just the private health care sector, but education, criminal justice, faith communities, business, and others) because the underlying causes of poor health and quality of life are tied closely to social issues that are too complex to be approached by disease models of intervention. Turning Point work through National Excellence Collaboratives resulted in ground breaking work in
Northwest Center for Public Health Practice: This web site is intended to help front-line public health practitioners find information, learning resources, and online tools that support day-to-day public health practice. http://healthlinks.washington.edu/nwcphp/
State Health Departments: The MMWR website provides quick access to each of the 50 state health department websites. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/international/relres.html
Local Health Departments: This website provides quick access to most of the country's approximately 3,000 local public health organizations. http://www.healthguideusa.com/local_health_departments.htm
Local Public Health Governance: Supported through the National Association of Local Boards of Health. http://www.nalboh.org/
Public Health Leadership:
National Network of Public Health Institutes: This organization recognizes and enhances the work being done in public health by independent, nonprofit collaborative entities. http://www.nnphi.org/default.htm
Tools, References & Libraries:Useful Web Resources are provided by Kaiser Permanente, including
National Public Health Performance Standards Program: This site provides information on the NPHPS Program, the National Partners, and the resources available to support performance assessment and systems improvement http://www.cdc.gov/od/ocphp/nphpsp/
CAST-V Assessment Tool: Capacity Assessment for State Title V (CAST-5) is a set of assessment and planning tools designed to assist state Title V programs in examining their organizational capacity to carry out core maternal and child health (MCH) functions. http://www.amchp.org/policy/data-cast5.htm#tools
Public Health Tools and References: These websites are very useful for general public health resources and references:
Foundations Supporting Public Health:
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: The nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change. http://www.rwjf.org/about/index.jsp
The Kansas Health Foundation: The Kansas Health Foundation is a private philanthropic organization dedicated to improving the health of all Kansans. Many of their programs and ideas are worth considering in other states. http://www.kansashealth.org/
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