 Public health accreditation: Rubber stamp or roadmap for improvementA.L. Carman and L. Timsina American Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 105, S353-S359 Abstract: Objectives: We identified the characteristics of local health departments (LHDs) that intended to seek accreditation, and also examined the association between that intent and a complete community health assessment (CHA), community health improvement plan, agency strategic plan, or other specific accreditation requirements. Methods: We analyzed data from the 2010 profile survey of LHDs conducted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (n = 267). Results: Those LHDs that conducted a CHA (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 0.62; 95%confidence interval [CI] = 0.38, 1.00; P = .05) and developed a strategic plan (AOR = 0.30; 95%CI = 0.12, 0.74; P = .01) were less likely to have an intent to pursue accreditation in the first 2 years of the program. By contrast, those LHDs that were engaged in quality improvement (QI) activities were approximately 2.6 times more likely to pursue accreditation compared with those LHDs that did not have any QI activities (P Keywords: accreditation; adult; female; government; human; male; middle aged; public health service; standards; total quality management, Accreditation; Adult; Female; Humans; Local Government; Male; Middle Aged; Public Health Administration; Quality Improvement (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2015.302568_5 Access Statistics for this article American Journal of Public Health is currently edited by Alfredo Morabia More articles in American Journal of Public Health from American Public Health Association |
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