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Measuring Local Public Health Preparedness: Gaining Perspective

This article discusses the importance of measuring public health preparedness and the challenges faced in doing so. It provides insights on the perspective of different organizations and highlights the key components of public health preparedness.

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Measuring Local Public Health Preparedness: Gaining Perspective

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  1. Measuring Local Public Health Preparedness: Gaining Perspective Darren Collins Center for Public Health Preparedness DeKalb County Board of Health February 23, 2005

  2. Warm up exercise

  3. PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS REQUIRES PROPER PLANNING, PARTNERSHIPS, PATIENCE, AND PLENTY OF RESOURCES.

  4. How many P’s are there?

  5. PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS REQUIRES PROPER PLANNING, PARTNERSHIPS, PATIENCE AND PLENTY OF RESOURCES.

  6. Perspective Influences Performance Organization Perspective • CDC • State Health Departments • Local Health Departments • Federal • State • Local

  7. Why Measure Performance?

  8. What Are We Measuring?

  9. Performance As Tradeoffs “Fast, Cheap, Good: Choose Any Two.” ~Anonymous

  10. Performance Measurement – Some Key Challenges • How do we make this meaningful • Differences in measurements • Will the information collected lead to meaningful improvements • Tension between doing things right and doing the right things

  11. Are We Really That Different - DeKalb’s Perspective “A health department that is prepared has ___________.” • Leadership • Resources • Trained & Competent Staff • Plan • Communication

  12. Defining Public Health Preparedness Preparedness is not something you purchase and take off the shelf when you need it.

  13. Public Health Preparedness is… Systems, plans, and resources that enable the local public health system to address significant community health issues and handle community health emergencies.

  14. Project Public Health Ready • Collaborative activity between CDC and NACCHO • Effort to develop individual competency and LPHA capacity • Focused on planning, training, and exercises

  15. Partnerships Are Essential Local Public Health Agencies State Public Health Agencies Schools of Public Health National partners & public health organizations

  16. Public Health Ready (Or Not) – DeKalb’s Experience • Initial reaction • Why us? • Now is not a good time! • Engaged senior leadership • Assessed current capacity • Identified gaps • Working toward recognition

  17. Public Health Ready- Some Key Challenges • Perception of preparedness • Distraction from our important work • It’s not part of my job • Training is time & resource intensive • Linking individual performance to organizational performance • “What’s in it for me?” • Cultural differences

  18. Some Final Thoughts... • Performance measurement is critically important • Challenge to make performance measurement routine & ongoing • Need to define ideal • Project Public Health Ready is one way to benchmark performance

  19. “The problem is that not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” ~Albert Einstein

  20. Center for Public Health PreparednessDeKalb County Board of Health 445 Winn Way Decatur, GA 30030 phone:404.508.7997 fax:404.294.3260 www.dekalbhealth.net

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