Collaborative Performance Management for Public Health: A Practical Guide

This book provides a practical guide to performance management in public health, emphasizing the use of existing resources and collaboration between leadership and staff to achieve health impact. It offers insights and case studies for implementing performance management systems and plans, making it essential reading for public health leaders and employees.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 118 pages
Publication date: 01 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Performance management is a sensitive issue within the field of public health. Written by esteemed experts in public health performance management and quality improvement, this book provides a comprehensive and compelling explanation of what public health performance management entails and why it is essential for effectively addressing the longstanding health challenges that communities and states have been grappling with for decades. Importantly, the book avoids the urge to invest in technology or adopt a new set of performance management terms and concepts. Instead, the authors advocate for a more thoughtful utilization of the existing resources within an organization, relying on the expertise of public health leadership working in tandem with well-trained staff to manage their organization's performance effectively. For performance management ideas and models to gain widespread acceptance within public health, they must be framed and populated with relevant public health examples. This book offers a treasure trove of practical insights and case studies that can be immediately applied to public health organizations, ranging from assessing an organization's needs, introducing a performance management system, developing agency goals and targets, to the implementation of robust performance management systems and plans. Collaborative Performance Management for Public Health is an indispensable resource for all public health leaders and employees who are committed to maximizing the health impact of limited resources.

Weight: 249g
Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367528843