Please respond to the following: The Healthy People 2020 document identifies three key overarching areas to improve the health of Americans: workforce, data and information systems, and public health organizations. Choose one objective listed in Exhibit 7-1 in the textbook, and propose one strategy to achieve the goal of the objective. Suggest at least one reason why your proposed strategy would be effective. There are a number of other components that need to be considered in better understanding how to build infrastructure. First, it is important for leaders to assess the health of the people in their service areas on a regular basis so that their human services systems are more responsive to emerging health and mental health needs of the public. It is for this reason that the development of model service standards and assessment tools becomes important to a nimble public health and human services system.Write a paper on Public health leaders have pointed out over the years that assessment methods and strategies have been a real strength of the public health system. Assessment as well as other epidemiologic techniques are also strong components of the human services system and its infrastructure. The second enhancement to infrastructure building is an increasing awareness that a performance management approach to organizational effectiveness and the various tools that measure performance are also important aids in strengthening our health service systems. Closely allied to performance measurement as a third factor is the incorporation of quality improvement methodologies into the culture of our human services and public health infrastructure. Leaders need to support this cultural shift. Other techniques that are emerging as important for the improvement in quality of agency programs and services are the community balanced scorecard methodology2 and the results-based governance approaches.3
FIGURE 7-1 Pyramid of Preparedness. Source: Reproduced from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2002). Public Health Preparedness: A Status Report. Public Health Practice Program Office.
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