Improving Health in the Community: A Role for Performance Monitoring

by Jane S. Durch, Michael A. Stoto, Institute of Medicine, et al.

Book Overview

How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educational services, adequate nutrition, and a host of other activities.

With concern over funding constraints, making sure such activities are efficient and effective is becoming a high priority.

Improving Health in the Community explains how population-based performance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309055342
• ISBN13: 9780309055345
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"