Indiana State Health Improvement Plan (I-SHIP) - State of Indiana

INDIANA STATE HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PLAN
Partnering for the Public’s Health
SECTION 4: IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION PLAN
The public health systems priorities are based on the 10 Essential Public
Health Services. Members of the Executive Planning Committee identified
the areas Indiana Local Health Departments can focus on that will impact
the health outcomes of their communities the most. Enforcement of Laws
and Regulations and Public Health Workforce Development were the top
two public health essential services targeted for development for I-SHIP.
The remaining five priority areas (Data and Community Health Profiles;
Diagnosing and Investigating Health Hazards; Public Health Policy
Development; Informing, Educating and Empowering the Public; and
Integrated Healthcare Delivery) will be developed over the next two years
by the Office of Public Health Performance Management at the Indiana
State Department of Health (ISDH).
Additional data is to be collected by an Accreditation Assessment Team
(AAT) located at ISDH. The AAT is to conduct a public health
accreditation gap analysis at the local health department level in 2011.
These newly acquired data will be used as both a baseline and evaluation for
the year 1 public health essential services goal development criteria. The
Office of Public Health Performance Management will utilize the same
methodology to develop the remaining five priority essential services. The
development of the remaining services will be based on the final Public
Health Accreditation Board standards and measures.
The evaluation of the System Priorities will be conducted by the Office of
Public Health Performance Management. The evaluation instrument will be
based on the Local Standards & Measures Self-Assessment Tool developed
by the Public Health Accreditation Board. The Local Standards &
Measures Self-Assessment Tool is the foundation for the public health
accreditation gap analysis plan. A series of questions are asked to determine
if health departments can demonstrate, partially demonstrate, or not
demonstrate documentation requirements needed to meet each measure for
accreditation. Each Assessment/Standard has an identified Domain in the
public health accreditation documentation; the evaluation will connect the
assessment/standard to the appropriate domain.
To evaluate the local health departments‘ progress toward the identified
system priorities, a survey focusing on each identified Assessment/Standard
will be administered at years 3 and 5 of the I-SHIP. Data will be reported in
an aggregate format so no individual health department data will be
identifiable.