Change Leadership: Local health department accreditation status and leader openness to changeJadhav, EmmanuelApha
As of December, 2007, 34 of 85 local health departments in North Carolina have been accredited by the North Carolina Local Health Department Accreditation Board. The NC Local Health Department Accreditation (NCLHDA) program is a collaborative effort among many partners; key original partners are the...
Objective: Health department accreditation is a crucial strategy for strengthening public health infrastructure. The purpose of this study was to investigate local health department (LHD) characteristics that are associated with accreditation-seeking behavior. This study sought to ascertain the effects of ...
Respondents perceived mental health as a public health issue and expressed that it has emerged as a priority through community health needs assessment processes, such as those conducted for health department accreditation. However, most LHDs were not substantively engaged in population mental health ...
The article presents a study which assessed the readiness of a rural local health department (LHD) in West Texas for national accreditation. It mentions that the gap analysis evaluation was participated by five of the ten full-time LHD staff. The result of the study shows that an achievement ...
Piloting a state health department accreditation model: the North Carolina experience. Accreditation of state and local public health agencies is a major national priority. North Carolina, a national leader in the accreditation of local publi... J Reed,D Pavletic,L Devlin,... - 《Journal of Pu...
To increase its capacity to effectively address pressing public health issues, operate as a learning organization and meet national PHAB accreditation standards, the New Orleans Health Department (NOHD) built a department-wide quality improvement (QI) program. When this effort began, NOHD recently ha...
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Use of A-EBPs in LHDs is important because these practices have been shown to be effective in boosting performance, contributing to ac- creditation efforts, and may ultimately lead to improved health of the population [9, 10]. In addition, the Public Health Accredi...
August 4. Quezon City, Philippines: Department of the Interior and Local Government. DILG Memorandum Circular No. 2013-70. 2013. Accreditation of Civil Society Organizations, and Selection of Representatives to the Local Special Bodies. July 24. Quezon City, Philippines: Department of the Interior ...