Strengthening public health infrastructure requires robust Accountability and Performance Management, ensuring health departments meet standards, achieve accreditation, and foster a culture of quality. Explore key resources to support these efforts.
This guidance document is a resource for state health departments developing a state health assessment and includes information and tips based on state health departments’ experiences conducting a state health assessment.
Historically, the governmental public health system has been underfunded and understaffed, to assist, PHAB has a variety of resources to help health departments with their workforce efforts.
Health departments pursuing accreditation are required to appoint one person as an Accreditation Coordinator (AC). This document provides guidance and resources for hiring an AC.
The study summarized in this brief examined the relationship between public health accreditation through PHAB and outcomes related to the COVID-19 pandemic including COVID-19 vaccination rates and deaths attributed to COVID-19.
