Mobilize Partnerships to Identify and Solve Health Problems
Improve quality and performance.
Achieve better outcomes – improved health, less preventable death and disease.
Be more efficient with time and money.
Receive national accreditation.
Why is accreditation important?
Documents accountabilityEncourages continual Quality
ImprovementSets benchmarks on servicesLeads to best practice sharingHelps to identify gaps in
performance
In “plain English”: Engage people and organizations in health issues.
“How well do we really get people and organizations engaged in health issues?”
(CDC,2008)
Constituency development and identification of system partners and stakeholders
Coalition development
Formal and informal partnerships to promote health improvement
(CDC, 2008)
Build statewide partnerships to: Collaborate in the performance of public
health functions and essential services Utilize the full range of available human
and material resources
Improve the state's health status (CDC, 2008)
Organize and provide leadership to: Convene, facilitate, and collaborate with
statewide partners (including non-traditional)
Identify public health priorities based on the work from E.S. # 1 (Monitor) and # 2 (Diagnose)
Create effective solutions to solve state and local health problems
(CDC, 2008)
Build statewide partnerships to: Collaborate in performing public health
functions and essential services
Utilize the full range of available human and material resources
Improve the state's health status (CDC, 2008)
Assist partners and communities to:
Organize and undertake actions
Improve the health of the state's communities
(CDC, 2008)
Use the 4 Model Standards:
1. Planning and Implementation: Do we conduct a variety of community building practices, including engagement, constituency development, and partnership mobilization, to identify and solve health problems?
Model Standard
2. State-Local Relationships: How well do we engage local health systems in partnerships to provide technical assistance, capacity building and resources?
Model Standard
3. Performance Management and Quality Improvement: How often do we review the effectiveness of our partnership-mobilizing efforts and use this information to improve?
Model Standard
4. Public Health Capacity and Resources: Do we effectively invest in and utilize human, information, organizational and financial resources to produce mobilization efforts that meet the health needs of the state’s population?
Skill to :
Partner with communities to understand quantitative and qualitative data
Skill to:
Collect , summarize , and interpret information
State policy options ; write clear, concise policy statements
Skill to :Lead and participate in groups to
address specific issues
Present accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences
Skill to
Establish and maintain linkages with key
stakeholders
Use leadership skills to build community
partnerships
Collaborate with community partners
Accomplish effective community engagements
Identify community assets and available resources
Other State Agencies (e.g., FSSA, IDEM, DOE, ITPC, Homeland Security, OFBS)
Colleges and Universities Statewide Professional Organizations
(e.g., IEHA, INSOPHE, IPHA, INPHCA, IRHA, ISMA, ISNA, IAFP, IHHA, IMHC, IAPHP, IDA)
Voluntary Health Agencies (ACS, AHA, ALA, AF ADA and more)
Policy and Decision-makers Local Health Departments and their
partners
Mass Prophylaxis Clinics Chronic Disease Coalitions Minority Health Coalitions Community Health Centers and MCH
clinics Rural Health HIV Prevention Services Lead Poisoning Prevention
Laura HeinrichDiabetes Program
Chronic Disease Division
CDC National Public Health Performance Standards Program Website: http://www.cdc.gov/od/ocphp/nphpsp/EssentialPublicHealthServices.htm#es2
Indiana Public Health System Quality Improvement Report (2007).
Council on Linkages Training Project Website: http://www.trainingfinder.org/competencies/list_ephs.htm#2
What does your program do to mobilize community
partnerships?