Index
A
ABC Program
Access to care: MAPP process identifying issue of; Osceola County securing FQHC for; relationship between expenditures and
Accountability: IOM's recommendations for; need for improved public health professional
Adaptive leadership
Administrative leadership
Advancing the State of the Art in Community Benefit (ASACB)
Adverse selection
Affordable Care Act (2010)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AIDS. See HIV/AIDS
American cancer Society
American Hospital Association
American Medical Association (AMA)
American Public Health Association (APHA)
American Red Cross
American Thoracic Society
Analytical epidemiology: description of; examples of; sample matrix displaying study outcomes
Armed conflicts/wars
Assessment Protocol for Excellence in Public Health (APEXPH)
Association of American Medical Colleges
B
Behavioral medicine practice
Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System
Blue Cross
Brown v. Board of Education
Bureaucracies: description of; health care
C
Case definition of
Case studies. See Public health case studies
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): addressing gaps in public health care performance; community partnerships report by; cost-utility analysis to evaluate health interventions by; on food-borne outbreaks; The Guide to Community Preventive Services of; Healthy People 2010 and 2020 initiatives of; on importance of communication strategies; on increased U.S. life expectancy; on infections acquired in health care settings; leadership development programs of the; on major public health threat response preparation; on medical costs of chronic diseases; National Public Health Performance Standards Program launched by; Prevention Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grants of; Promoting Preventive Services for Adults 50–64: Community and Clinical Partnerships report by; Public Health Practice Program Office (CDC) of; on rates of chronic disease; surveillance systems used by; on world's climate
CER (comparative effectiveness research)
Chadwick, Edwin
Chain of infection
Change: leadership for the new public health; managing public health system; Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle for; policy and institutional practices as key levers for; public health disruption and; visioning the new public health. See also Health care reform; Innovation; Quality improvement
Cholera outbreak (London, 1854)
Chronic Care Model
Chronic diseases: challenge of; costs associated with; developing new perspectives on preventing; epidemic of; health education programs preventing; high-risk behaviors associated with; need for investment in preventing; need for partnerships to combat; obesity and. See also Diseases
Climate change: CDC's priority health actions for; definition of; health consequences of
Collaborative partnerships
Collective intelligence
Colorectal cancer (CRC) education programs
The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System
Communicable diseases: description and transmission of; epidemiology of; need for prioritizing prevention of; threat of. See also Diseases; H1 N1 influenza
Communication strategies: CDC on importance of; community partnerships and role of; IOM recommendations on; leadership skills and; risk communication
Community: advancing equity strategies for; community-wide partnerships improving health in; definition of; health equity requiring prevention strategies for; LHD goal to enhance health in
Community benefit
Community health: factors of; improving infant health in Stanislus County; role of partnerships in improving. See also Health
Community health factors: clusters making up; equitable opportunity; health care services; people; place
Community health workers (CHWs): definition of; health equity by expanding use of; HHS identification of roles by; services provided by. See also Public health workers
Community intervention logic model
Community partnerships: advantages and disadvantages of; between LPHAs and NGOs; building successful; combating chronic diseases through; communication role in; description of; ecological model of health for building; improving infant health in Stanislus County using; preparing for H1 N1 through; WHO's Verona Benchmark on. See also MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships); Public health partnerships
Community prevention: health equity requiring strategies for; quality health care system and
Community Vision
Competencies (public health worker)
Complex adaptive systems
Complexity leadership theory: collective or distributed intelligence cornerstone of; description of; managing change using
Conflict management
Consensus Statement on Quality in the Public Health System (HHS)
Continuous quality improvement (CQI)
Core functions of public health
Cost. See Health care expenditures
Cost-utility analysis
Council on Linkages Between Academia and Public Health Practice
Culture: how to nurture; influence and importance of; informal leader role in formation of; performance-based; performance-enhancing. See also Public health culture
Culture audit
D
Data management: description of; health outcome; Osceola County securing FQHC through effective; resource; risk factor
Descriptive epidemiology: chain of infection concept of; description of; health care delivery role of; list of reportable diseases; triad of disease concept of
Determinants of health: description of; health inequalities and; as public health practice challenge
Development disabilities programs: case study (student version) on; case study (teacher version) on
Direct transmission
Diseases: chain of infection; emerging infections; list of reportable; Millennium Development Goals (UN) to combat; triad of. See also Chronic diseases; Communicable diseases
Disruptive innovation
Distributed intelligence
E
Ecological model of health: building community-wide partnerships using; description of; examples of partners for each domain of
Emerging infections epidemiology
Emerson Report of 1945 (APHA)
Empowerment: definition of true employee; of expertise as power; how new competencies create; by leadership; Millennium Development Goals (UN) on women and; of workers in public health
Enabling leadership
Epi-X
Epidemic of chronic diseases
Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
Epidemiology: analytical; application to health care; case definition of; CDC use of; of communicable diseases; data management component of; description and functions of; descriptive; of emerging infections; managerial; surveillance systems component of
Ethical Public Health Codes
Evidence-based public health practice
Expertise as power
F
Federally qualified health center (FQHC) [Osceloa County]
501(c)(3) nonprofit status
Florida Department of Health
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food-borne outbreaks
Framingham study
The Future of Public Health in the 21st Century (IOM)
The Future of Public Health (IOM)
G
Get Up & Go campaign (St. Clair)
Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century (WHO)
Global public health security
Global warming
Globalization spread of disease
Good Health Counts: A 21st Century Approach to Health and Community for California study (2007)
Government: Affordable Care Act (2010) passed by; health care crisis role played by; leadership of quality improvement in public health by; minimal political appreciation of public health by
Great Basin Public Health Leadership Institute
The Guide to Community Preventive Services (CDC)
H
H1 N1 influenza: community partnership preparation for; epidemiology of; HHS announcement on emergency caused by; morbidity and mortality caused by; pandemic (2009); public health agencies efforts to control; public health distribution of vaccine for. See also Communicable diseases
Health: climate change effects on; as defined by Institute of Medicine (IOM); defining and modeling; determinants of; ecological model of; natural environment relationship to good; obesity epidemic consequences for. See also Community health
Health behaviors: CDC on increase of high-risk; chronic disease associated with; efforts to change poor; health care crisis due to high-risk; health promotion focus on
Health care delivery: cause of cost escalation in; development of power in; epidemiology role in; innovations in; leadership and politics in; new model of; opportunity to improve; quality improvement of
Health care expenditures: access to care relationship to; by category (1960 to 2006); cause of cost escalation in health care delivery; chronic disease and associated; consequences of high; economic evaluation methods to control; GDP percentage of; obesity associated with increasing; projections (2010, 2015, and 2016) for; source of funds (2005) and; 2 trillion dollars annual U.S.
Health care reform: Affordable Care Act (2010) attempt at; CER (comparative effectiveness research) used in; IOM on failures (1993) of; pressure for health insurance; public health leadership required for; why we are failing in. See also Change
Health care services: changes in providers of; health equity solutions through; investing in personal; IOM's definition of quality; quality nexus of public health and. See also Public health services
Health care system: causes and factors of failures; failures to reform; a new model of health care delivery; possible solutions to problems in; problems in our; threat of communicable diseases for
Health care system problems: cost, access, and health levels; end of the primary care physician as; epidemic of medical errors as; failure of reforms efforts; government entities contributing to; health insurance industry contributing to; high-risk health behaviors contributing to; increase in lobbyist activity contributing to; minimal political appreciation of public health as; providers of health care services contributing to; public health as potential solution to
Health care system solutions: businesses and employers providing; innovation in health care services delivery as
Health disparities. See also Health inequities
Health education programs: expansion of; innovation in colorectal cancer; innovative approaches to; largely ignored by medicine; preventing chronic diseases through; quality improvement through
Health equity: challenges of achieving through practices and policy; critical needs for achieving; finding solutions to achieve; local solutions for advancing safety and; opportunities for achieving through practices and policy; a time of opportunity for achieving
Health equity needs: community prevention strategies; sustainable health care system
Health Equity and Prevention Primer (Prevention Institute)
Health equity solutions: community level; health care service level; overarching; systems level
Health inequities: definition of; determinants of health as factor in; finding solutions to; four-pronged solution to; Life and Death from Unnatural Causes: Health and Social Inequity in Alameda County (2008) addressing; trajectory of. See also Health disparities
Health insurance: adverse selection concept of; description and functions of; moral hazard concept of; pressure to reform
Health interventions: cost-utility analysis to evaluate; economic evaluation methods of
Health levels
Health maintenance organizations (HMOs)
Health outcomes. See Public health outcomes
Health promotion: largely ignored by medicine; quality improvement through education and
Health promotion programs: financing; IRS tax-exempt status to nonprofit
Health-e-Cards
HealthMap
Healthy Birth Outcomes program (Stanislaus County)
Healthy People 2010
Healthy People 2020
Healthy Start Coalitions
High-risk behaviors: analytical epidemiology studies on; CDC on increase of; chronic disease associated with; health care crisis due to; health promotion focus on changing; injection drug use (IDU) study on
Hippocrates
HIV/AIDS: as chronic disease; improving quality of public health services for; increasing rates of; legacy concept used in public health approach to; Millennium Development Goals (UN) to combat; public health strategies on
Hospital-acquired infections: CDC on problem of; Staphylococcal aureus (MRSA) as
Hot, Flat, and Crowded (Friedman)
Hurricane Katrina (2005)
I
Indirect transmission
Infant health improvement partnership
Infectious diseases. See Communicable diseases
Influenza. See H1 N1 influenza
Informal leader
Information asymmetry
Information technology: IOM recommendations for; public health use of; risk communication use of
Injection drug use (IDU) study
Innovation: colorectal cancer education programs; disruptive; in health care delivery; in health education programs; process of; public health leadership finding solutions through. See also Change
The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (Christensen, Grossman, and Hwang)
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
Institute of Medicine (IOM): accountability system recommended by; on community-wide public and private partnerships; on failures of government reform efforts (1993); The Future of Public Health in the 21st Century by; The Future of Public Health by; health as defined by; LEAD framework of; leadership programs recommended by; medical errors as defined by; on mission of public health; on MPH degree; on need for quality improvement; on public health core functions; public health definition by; on public health political appointees; on public health system partnerships; quality in health care as defined by; recommendations on communication skills; recommendations on using information technology; on six major areas of action for change; To Err Is Human by
Institutional practices: addressing health inequalities related to; as levers for change
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Intersectoral public health
J
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
K
Koch, Robert
L
LEAD framework (IOM)
Leadership: adaptive, enabling, and administrative; communication skills of; complexity; credibility of; definition of; empowering; formation of culture and role of; mentorship by; servant; styles of; systems view of executive; traits of; transformational style of. See also Management; Public health Leadership
Leadership traits
Legacy concept: definition of; public health HIV strategy as example of; public health and significance of
Life and Death from Unnatural Causes: Health and Social Inequity in Alameda County (2008)
Life expectancy
Local health departments (LHDs): change needed due to limitations of; characteristics of; community partnerships with; core functions and essential services of; description of; financing health promotion programs of; functions of; gaps in quality of services; managing change in; NACCHO survey on; partnerships between NGOs and; planning and performance improvement of; political appointees as leaders of; primary goal to enhance health in community; ten most frequent services used at. See also Public health system
Local public health agencies (LPHAs): accreditation of; definition of a functional; limitations of ten essential services framework for; primary care and primary prevention in; quality characteristics of a well-functioning; student on primary prevention services of
Local public health systems
London cholera epidemic (1854)
Luzerne County Colorectal Cancer Task Force
M
Malaria
Management: bureaucratic; conflict. See also Leadership
Managerial epidemiology
MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships): Osceloa County securing FQHC through; St. Clair's Get Up & Go campaign using; Stanislaus County Health Services Agency use of. See also Community partnerships; Public health partnerships
MDR-TB (multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis)
Mectizan Donation Program (MDP)
Medicaid: federal budget percentage paid for Medicaid; increasing costs of
Medical errors: epidemic of; improving health care system to avoid; IOM's definition of. See also Physicians; Quality improvement
Medical home
Medicare: federal budget percentage paid for; fraud related to; increasing costs of
Medicine: behavioral; epidemic of medical errors in; forging partnership between public health and; population-based; prevention, health education and promotion largely ignored by
Mentorship
Mid-American Regional Public Health Institute
Millennium Development Goals (UN)
Mission of public health: definition of; gap between current practice and
Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP)
Moral hazard
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Morbidity rates: data management on; health care reform by changing patterns of; as health outcome measure
Mortality rates: CABG-related; data management on; health care reform by changing patterns of; as health outcome measure; Millennium Development Goals (UN) to reduce child; number of deaths/leading causes of death (1900); number of deaths/leading causes of death (2000); ten leading causes of death (2004)
MRSA (Staphylococcal aureus)
Multi-State Learning collaborative (MLC I, II, and III)
N
National Association of County and City Health Officers (NACCHO)
National Association of County and City Health Officer's profile study (2008)
National Association of County and City Health Officer's profile study (2010)
National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
National Commission on Prevention Priorities
National Committee for Quality Assurance
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health
National Profile of Local Health Departments
National Public Health Leadership Development Network
National Public Health Performance Standards Program (NPHPSP)
National Quality Forum for Health Care Measurement
The Nation's Health
New public health: leadership for the; vision for the
New York Times
Nonprofit nongovernmental organizations (NGOs): IRS tax-exempt status to; LPHA partnerships with; public health leaders found in
North Carolina Comprehensive Assessment for Tracking Community Health (NC-CATCH)
Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group (NNECDSG)
O
Obesity epidemic: description and health consequences of; health care costs associated with
Office of Programs for People with Disabilities (OPPD): case study (student version) on; case study (teacher version) of
Operational Definition of a Functional Local Health Department (NACCHO)
Optimum Health
Osceloa County health center
P
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District
The Partnering Toolbook (Tennyson)
Partnerships. See Community partnerships; Public health partnerships
Pasteur, Louis
Performance-based culture
Performance-enhancing culture
Personal health care services
Physicians: epidemic of medical errors by; prevention, health education and promotion largely ignored by; primary care; resistance to new model of health care delivery by. See also Medical errors
Pioneering Health Communities initiative (YMCA)
Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle
Pneumonia
Points of Distribution (POD)
Population
Population-based medicine
Population-centered service organization
Poverty: communicable diseases as effects of; Millennium Development Goals (UN) to eradicate
Power: abuse of; definition and types of; empowerment of sharing; expertise as form of; health care delivery and development of; position and personal sources of; public health leaders and
Preparedness: CDC on major public health threat response; community partnerships for H1 N1; health care system focus on
Prevention: Affordable Care Act (2010) response to; California return on investment of ten dollars per person; community intervention logic model for; health equity requiring community; investing in chronic diseases; lack of medical focus on; national return on investment of ten dollars per person; need for prioritizing; new perspectives on chronic disease; primary; quality health care system and community; value of programs for
Prevention Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grants
Prevention for a Healthier California report (2008)
Prevention Institute
Primary care physicians: decreasing number of; efforts to increase number of
Primary prevention: local public health agencies (LPHAs) services for; local public health services; multiplier effects of; public health services related to
Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health (Public Health Leadership Society)
Priority Areas for Improvement of quality in Public Health (HHS)
Promoting Preventive Services for Adults 50–64: Community and Clinical Partnerships report (CDC)
Public health: as change agent; defining and modeling health focus of; definitions of; determinants of health addressed by; at the federal, state, and local levels; forging partnership between medicine and; history and its impact on services; information management benefits for; intersectoral; legacy concept of; minimal political appreciation of; mission of; population-centered health services of; as potential solution to health care crisis; quality characteristics of a well-functioning local; tipping point in; urgent need for system change in; vision for. See also Quality public health
Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB)
Public health case studies: community partnerships to prepare for H1 N1; development disabilities programs; health promotion programs; innovation in colorectal cancer education programs; municipal health department leadership; Osceloa County secures federally qualified health center; partnering for improved infant health in Stanislaus County; St. Clair's Get Up & Go campaign using MAPP
Public Health Code of Ethics
Public health culture: change process and resistance by; important role of; leadership and; performance-based; performing a culture audit of; thick culture of. See also Culture
Public Health Institute
Public health leadership: adaptive, enabling, and administrative; case study on municipal health department leadership; challenges facing; as change agent; communication skills of; complexity leadership theory on; conflict management by; credibility of; culture audit by; empowering; formation of culture and role of; health care delivery politics and; health care reform role of; innovation embraced by; mentorship by; need for developing; for the new public health; political appointees as; power and power base of; public health culture and; quality improvement and; traits and styles of; transformational style of. See also Leadership
Public Health Leadership Institute
Public Health Leadership Society
Public Health Leadership Society (PHLS)
Public health organizations: current quality improvement efforts in; developing outcomes orientation in; ecological model of health for community partnerships with; global challenges facing; mission of; not for profit status of; ten organizational practices of; urgent need for system change; value of partnerships for
Public health outcomes: continuous quality improvement (CQI) approach to; data on; definition of; HHS priority areas for improving; mortality and morbidity measures of; Oscelola County FQHC and; primary and secondary drivers of; road map to improve public; Stanislaus County partnering for improved infant health. See also Quality public health
Public health partnerships: building successful; collaborative; community health improved through; different types of; ecological model of health for building; historic public health role of; improving infant health in Stanislus County using; Osceloa County secures FQHC through; value for public health organizations. See also Community partnerships; MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships)
Public health practice: accreditation for; definition of functional local; determinants of health challenge of; ethical principles of; evidence-based; gap between mission and current; need for improvements in; quality characteristics to guide
Public health practice challenges: climate change as; determinants of health as; obesity epidemic as; war and armed conflicts as
Public Health Practice Program Office (CDC)
Public Health Quality Forum
Public health services: case studies on development disabilities; as community health factor; core functions of; ecological model to improve quality of; future direction of; gaps in quality of; historic impact on; minimal political appreciation of; preparedness focus of; primary care and primary prevention in local; ten essential. See also Health care services
Public health system: changing for the future; creating partnerships to combat chronic disease; health equity solutions through; managing change in the; public perceptions of; ten remarkable accomplishments of; thick culture nature of; unobtainable goals as major weakness in. See also Local health departments (LHDs)
Public health workers: change process and resistance by; conflict management of; critical shortage of; culture of; empowerment of; mentorship of; need for improved accountability of; new competencies developed by; numbers and types of; professional development of. See also Community health workers (CHWs)
Public-Private Partnership for Hand Washing with Soap
Q
Quality improvement: hospital-acquired infections and need for; IOM on need and recommendations for; need for; public health education and health promotion programs for; public health leadership and; six major areas of action for; Stanislaus County partnering for infant health. See also Change; Medical errors
Quality public health: application of national quality aims for; community prevention supporting; continuous quality improvement (CQI) approach to; criteria used to establish priority areas of; current efforts to create; definition of; federal leadership of creating; focusing on core functions/essential services of; gaps in; IOM's definition of; nexus of health care and. See also Public health; Public health outcomes
R
Report of the Sanitary Commission (Shattuck)
Reportable diseases
Resource data
Risk communication: development and use of; use of technology in
Risk factor data
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
S
St. Clair County Health Department
St. Clair Health Care Commission
St. Clair's Get Up & Go campaign
SARS (sever acute respiratory syndrome)
SCHIP (State's Children's Health Insurance Program)
Seattle School District, Parents Involved in Community Schools v.
September 11, 2001 attacks
Servant leadership
Sexually Transmitted Disease Control Program
Shattuck, Lemuel
Shewhart cycle
Smallpox
Snow, John
Stanislaus County infant health partnership
Staphylococcal aureus (MRSA)
Surveillance systems: description and uses of; Epi-X; Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
Swine flu. See H1 N1 influenza
System. See Public health system
T
Ten leading causes of death (2004)
Terrorism attacks
TFAH
Thick culture of public health system
Tipping point
To Err Is Human (IOM)
Transformational style of leadership
Transmission: Communicable diseases; direct; indirect
Trust for America's Health
Trust for America's Health report (2009)
Tuberculosis
Turning Point initiative
U
Union for International Cancer Control
United Nations Millennium Development Goals
United States: comparing global health status to the; critical needs for achieving equitable health in the; health care expenditures by category (1960 to 2006); health care expenditures as GDP percentage in the; health care expenditures projections (2010, 2015, and 2016) for; ten leading causes of death (2004) in the
UnitedHealth Group
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (PBS documentary series)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): on characteristics of quality in public health; community partnerships endorsed by; concerns with public health quality; Consensus Statement on Quality in the Public Health System of; emergency announcement on H1 N1 influenza by; primary operating divisions and mission; Priority Areas for Improvement of quality in Public Health by; priority areas for improving public health outcomes; on roles of CHWs; on social determinant of health
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
U.S. General Accounting Office
V
Venereal Disease Control Program
Verona Benchmark (WHO)
Vision for public health
W
Wagner's Chronic Care Model
Wars/armed conflicts
Winslow, Charles-Edward A.
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
World Health Organization (WHO): Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century effort by; global public health security campaign led by; health as defined by; Verona Benchmark on partnerships by; work plan on climate change by
World Health Report 2000—Health Systems: Improving Performance
X
XDR-TB (extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis)
Y
Years of potential life lost (YPLL)
YMCA's Pioneering Health Communities initiative