Module Two : Readings
Please read the following materials for Module Two. These readings
provide background information on national health targets, establishing
your own agency goals, and devising measurement plans. In this section
you will find links to two readings:
- Selecting Health Indicators for Public Health
Surveillance in a Changing Health Care Environment (pp. 3-5
and pp.19-24)
- Healthy People 2010 Maternal, Infant, and
Child Health Indicators
For the first Module Two reading you will need to have Adobe Acrobat
Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader is a free software package that allows
you to read documents in a format called PDF (portable document
format). The PDF format ensures that the files you read look exactly
as the authors intended. If you did not download and install Adobe
Acrobat during the Internet Review lecture please do so now. You
can download and install Adobe Acrobat by following this link:
or by going to,
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
If you require additional instructions for downloading and
installing Adobe Acrobat Reader please click
here.
Selecting Health Indicators for Public
Health Surveillance in a Changing Health Care Environment (pp.
3-5 and pp.19-24)
http://www.ucsf.edu/fhop/docs/hci/hciint.pdf
or
From MACH 2010 Here
Once you have opened this document, please read the following sections:
- Executive Summary pp.3-5
- Barriers to the measurement of public health indicators pp.
19-24
Healthy People 2010 Maternal, Infant,
and Child Health Indicators http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/Document/HTML/Volume2/16MICH.htm
or
From MACH 2010 Here (Adobe PDF)
Once you have opened this document, please read the following sections:
- Goal
- Overview, including Issues and Trends, Disparities, and Opportunities
- Interim Progress Toward Year 2000 Objectives
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