Essential Public Health Service #5: DEVELOP POLICIES AND PLANS THAT SUPPORT INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH.
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Essential Public Health Service #5:
DEVELOP POLICIES AND PLANS
THAT SUPPORT INDIVIDUAL AND
COMMUNITY HEALTH
Refresher - Why learn the 10 Essential
Public Health Services?
Improve quality and performance.
Achieve better outcomes – improved health,
less preventable deaths and disease.
Be more efficient with time and money.
Receive national accreditation.
ES #5: Policy Development
What is a “policy”?
Deliberate plan of action to guide decisions
and achieve rational outcomes
Similar to rules or laws. Law compels or
prohibits behaviors (e.g. a law requiring the
payment of taxes on income)
Guides actions toward those that are most
likely to achieve a desired outcome.
What is the benefit of setting
policy?
Guides the process of making important
organizational decisions
Who sets policy?
The term may apply to government, private
sector organizations and groups, and
individuals.
Examples :
President or governor executive orders;
Corporation – business executive orders
Organization’s rules of order for meetings
Types of policies
Education – admissions; dress codes
Economic – just in time supplying
Energy – drilling for new oil
Environmental - windmill farms;
Safety – Handrails in LTC facilities; hospital bed
rails
Health – Indiana HIP
Human Resource – college degree for specific
jobs
General Public Health Policies:
Vaccinations
Fluoride in drinking water
No smoking
Data mining
INShape Indiana
Childhood Lead Poisoning screening
Walking trails
Stockpiling food for emergencies
ES #5:Key Functions
Protect health and guide public health practice
Community and state planning
Alignment of resources to assure successful
planning
Facilitate democratic process of dialogue and
debate with and among groups affected by
policies/plans prior to adoption
ES#5 : Some activities to develop
plans/ policies
To develop health policy or plans :
Rely on appropriate data
Develop measurable health objectives
Determine strategies/actions to implement
plans.
ES #5: Who are ISDH partners?
Legislature
Business and regulated industries
City/county councils
Program partners – advisory boards
Community-based organizations
Advocacy groups
Consumers, priority populations
Other examples?
To Achieve ES#5 Model Standard 1:
Planning/Implementation
Need to ask ourselves, do we:
Have a statewide health improvement plan?
Establish /maintain PH emergency response
capacity?
Raise awareness of needed PH policies?
To Achieve ES#5 Model Standard 2:
State-Local Relationships
Need to ask ourselves, do we:
Provide TA/training to LPH systems to develop
health improvement plans?
Provide assistance to develop local All-Hazards
Preparedness Plans?
Provide technical assistance and support for
conducting local health policy development?
To Achieve ES#5 Model Standard 3:
Performance Mgmt./QI.
Need to ask ourselves, do we:
Regularly monitor state’s progress on health
improvement objectives?
Review new/existing policies to determine their PH
impact?
Conducted exercises /drills to test preparedness
response capacity?
Manage overall performance of policy/planning
activities for quality improvement?
To Achieve ES#5 Model Standard 4:
Public Health Capacity Resources
Need to ask ourselves ,do we:
Commit adequate $$ to develop and implement
health policies/plans?
Align state-wide partnerships
Use skills in long-range planning
Obtain public participation?
Ten Essential Services –
Indiana’s Composite Scores
ES #5: Policy Development by
Model Standard
ES #5 Competencies –
Analytical/assessment skills
Able to define a problem
Recognizes how data illuminate ethical,
political, scientific, economic, and overall
public health issues
ES #5 Competencies –
Program Planning Skills
Collect, summarize, interpret relevant information
Articulate health, fiscal, administrative, legal, social,
political implications of policy options
State the feasibility and expected outcomes of
policy options
Decide on course of action
Translate policy into plans
References
CDC National Public Health Performance
Standards Program Website:
http://www.cdc.gov/od/ocphp/nphpsp/Essential
PublicHealthServices.htm#es2
Council on Linkages Training Project Website:
http://www.trainingfinder.org/competencies/li
st_ephs.htm#2
Indiana Public Health System Quality
Improvement Report (2007).
ES #5: Policy Development
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