Performance Contracting for Public Health: the Potential and the Implications

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-25

  Rohrer, James ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CONTRACT SERVICES; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; STATE GOVERNMENT; STATE HEALTH PLANS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 1642443961     PISSN: 10784659     EISSN: 15505022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00124784-200401000-00005     Document Type: Editorial

References (15)

1. J. Chapin and B. Fetter, “Performance-Based Contracting in Wisconsin Public Health; Transforming State-Local Relations,” Milbank Quarterly 80, no. 1 (2002): 97-124.
2. Institute of Medicine, The Future of Public Health. (Washington, D.C: National Academies Press, 1988).
3. T.B. Richards et al., “Evaluating Local Public Health Performance at a Public Level on a Statewide Basis,” Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 1, no. 4 (1995): 70-83.
4. C.A. Miller et al., “A Proposed Method for Assessing the Performance of Local Public Health Functions and Practices,” American Journal of Public Health 84, no. 11 (1994): 1743-1749.
5. C.A. Miller et al., “Validation of a Screening Survey to Assess Local Public Health Performance,” Journal of Public Health Management Practice 1, no. 1 (1995): 63-71.
6. F.D. Scutchfield et al., “Compliance with the Recommendations of the Institute of Medicine Report, the Future of Public Health: A Survey of Local Health Departments,” Journal of Public Health Policy 18, (1997): 155-166.
7. A.S. Handler and B.J Turnock, “Local Health Department Effectiveness in Addressing the Core Functions of Public Health; Essential Ingredients,” Journal of Public Health Policy 17, no. 4 (1996): 46CM83.
8. J.E. Rohrer et al., “Assessing Public Health Performance in Iowa’s Counties,” Journal of Public Health Management Practice 3, no. 3 (1997): 10-15.
9. B.J. Turnock, “Accrediting Public Health Agencies: “The Ducks is on the Pond!” Journal of Public Health Management Practice 4, no. 4 (1998): vi-vii.
10. G.P. Mays et al., “Assessing the Performance of Local Public Health Systems: A Survey of State Health Agency Efforts,” Journal of Public Health Management Practice 4, no. 4 (1998): 63-78.
11. B.J. Turnock et al., “Core Function-Related Local Public Health Practice Effectiveness,” Journal of Public Health Management Practice 4, no. 5 (1998): 26-32.
12. J.E. Rohrer and D.C. Dominguez, “Determinants of Successful Community Health System Planning,” Journal of Health Care Management 43, no. 2 (1998): 155-168.
13. D.A. Kindig, Purchasing Population Health. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
14. J.E. Rohrer, Planning for Community-Oriented Health Systems, 2nd ed. (Washington DC: American Public Health Association, 1999).
15. P.M. Kettner et al., Designing and Managing Programs: An Effectiveness-Based Approach. (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 2000).