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Measuring public health quality in mobile clinics

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Caterina Hill, MSc , Research Associate in Social Medicine Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Jesse Simmons, MS , St. David's Foundation, Austin, TX
Audio (mp3) recording Recorded Presentation (mp4)
HHS established a framework for measuring public health quality with the identification of the Nine Public Heath Aims for Quality (PHAQ). the PHAQ were operationalized into a self-assessment tool for frontline organizations (mobile health vans).  The purpose of the tool was to allow organizations to a) learn about the PHAQ; b) understand their program's public health strengths; c) identify opportunities for public health quality improvement. The tool was piloted with a sample of mobile clinics and evaluated for usefulness with frontline organizations using an implementation science framework.

Learning Areas:

Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
Define the PHAQ for mobile health clinics Demonstrate how the PHAQ can be used by frontline organizations for quality assessment and quality improvement

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the principle investigator on this project
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Since 2007, I have managed the growing evaluation team at St. David's Foundation and am responsible for implementing evaluation strategies across the six focus areas of the Foundation. I work with grant partners and internal staff to develop and monitor meaningful measures of program impact and quality. Additionally, I lead the internal evaluation of the St. David’s Mobile Dental Program, which is the Foundation’s only direct service program.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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