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Public Health Infrastructure: Local public health agencies actively participating in county-wide community public health partnerships, 2013 to 2020
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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-2.Data Source
Office of Local Public Health, New Jersey Department of Health(http://www.nj.gov/health/lh/)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of local public health agencies actively participatingDenominator:
Total number of local public health agencies that responded to the survey
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 2030.0
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-17.3
U.S. Target: Increase the proportion of local public health agencies that are accredited to 3.7 percent by 2020.0
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/public-health-infrastructureHealthy 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 2020.0
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 2020.0
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 2020.0
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 2020.0
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 2020.0
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/public-health-infrastructure.shtml