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Public Health Infrastructure: Local health departments that achieve voluntary national accreditation, 2012 to 2023
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Why Is This Important?
Public health infrastructure is fundamental to the provision and execution of public health services at all levels. Infrastructure is the foundation for planning, delivering, and evaluating public health.
Definition
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Data Notes
This is Healthy New Jersey 2020 (HNJ2020) Objective PHI-4.Data Sources
- Office of Local Public Health, New Jersey Department of Health
(http://www.nj.gov/health/lh/) - Public Health Accreditation Board
(http://phaboard.org/)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of accredited local health departmentsDenominator:
Total number of local health departments in New Jersey
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective PHI-02
U.S. Target: Increase the proportion of local public health agencies that are accredited to 17.0 percent by 2030
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/public-health-infrastructure/increase-proportion-local-public-health-agencies-are-accredited-phi-02
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective PHI-6.1
U.S. Target: Increase the number of public health or related sub-baccalaureate certificates and associate degrees awarded to 791 by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/public-health-infrastructureHealthy People 2020 Objective PHI-6.2 (Archived)
U.S. Target: Increase the proportion of 2-year colleges that offer public health certificate programs to 1.00 percent by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/public-health-infrastructureHealthy People 2020 Objective PHI-17.3
U.S. Target: Increase the proportion of local public health agencies that are accredited to 3.7 percent by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/public-health-infrastructure
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective PHI-1
NJ Target: Increase the proportion of New Jersey community colleges that offer public health or related associate degrees and/or certificate programs to 25 percent by 2020
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/public-health-infrastructure.shtmlHealthy NJ 2020 Objective PHI-2
NJ Target: Increase the percentage of local public health agencies actively participating in county-wide community public health partnerships to 100 percent by 2020
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/public-health-infrastructure.shtmlHealthy NJ 2020 Objective PHI-4
NJ Target: Increase the proportion of local health departments that achieve voluntary national accreditation to 75 percent by 2020
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/public-health-infrastructure.shtml