Quality Improvement in Local Health Departments

Abstract

The 2008 NACCHO Profile QI module furnishes an excellent baseline for measuring progress of health department QI activities as accreditation and other related activities intensify. A clear definition of QI in public health that is understood by practitioners will greatly increase our ability to measure the adoption of QI by LHDs. Further research is necessary to identify and explore some of the predictors and possible barriers to increasing the application of QI by LHDs.