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Tool Box
Tool Boxes on this Site:
Healthy People 2010 and Other Health Promotion, Disease
Prevention
- Healthy People 2010 Tool Kit: On-line resources
from US DHHS Office of Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention to help you develop a Healthy People 2010
plan in your state. Includes materials for (1) building
leadership; (2) identifying and securing resources;
(3) identifying and working with partners; (4) establishing
priorities and objectives; (5)obtaining baseline measures
and measuring progress; (6) managing and sustaining
the process; and (7) marketing.
- Public Health Foundation “Tools and Resources” The
Public Health Foundation has developed and provided
many links to tools and resources for public health
planning, program development, tracking, and evaluation.
Includes broad categories of (1) Performance Improvement
Tools and Resources; (2) Healthy People 2010 Tools
and Resources; and (3) Other Tools and Resources. Comprehensive
site.
Child Health: General
- Assuring Better Child Development (ABCD): With support
from the Commonwealth Fund, the National Academy of
State Health Policy site provides a tool box for states.
Purpose of ABCD project is to improve developmental
outcomes and children’s readiness to learn and
to prevent more intensive and expensive care later
in life. Tool box provides information and resources
for states, providers, managed care organizations,
and parents.
Quality of Care for Children
- Child Health Tool Box, Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, US, DHHS: Contains information,
tools and resources for evaluating health care services
and programs, including Medicaid and State Child Health
Insurance Programs (SCHIP) quality for children. Detailed
information on indicators for healthcare quality and
performance.
- Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), Oregon Health Sciences University, Department of Pediatrics, is a national collaboration committed to measuring
and improving the quality of health care for children
and adolescents. The CAHMI is committed to ensuring
that families, purchasers, policymakers and providers
have relevant and actionable information about health
care quality that can be used to help families make
better health care decisions to improve health care
quality and the health of children, adolescents and
families. Site provides information, tools and links
for quality measures.
- Cultural Competency, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, US Department of Health and Human Services. Provides links to a variety of cultural competency resources to better and more comprehensively address the needs of minority patients.
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