Assessment of Performance Measures for Public Health, Substance Abuse, & Mental Health

by Panel on Performance Measures and Data for Public Health Performance Partnership Grants, National Research Council, Edward Perrin

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is carrying out an ambitious new program to assure that funds for public health programs are spent as effectively as possible. Under the new program, every state will develop a set of performance objectives to measure its progress in terms of outcomes, processes, and capacity. In the first phase of the program, states are to propose such measures to be achieved over three to five years.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309057965
• ISBN13: 9780309057967
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"