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Turning Point Model
State Public Health Act
Alaska Public
Health Improvement Process (APHIP)
APHIP Goals
National
Excellence Collaboratives
Public Health Statute
Modernization
National Collaborative
Turning
Point
National Office
Robert
Wood Johnson
Foundation
Turning
Point Communities
Healthy Alaskans
2010
Volume I: Targets for Improved Health
Healthy Alaskans
2010
Volume II: A Talking Circle among Alaskan Communities and Neighborhoods
Health
Profiles Online:
Area Health Profiles and other Health Statistics
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About Turning Point
Turning Point: Collaborating for a New Century in Public Health
was inaugurated in 1996 as a joint effort of the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation (WKKF) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
to "transform and strengthen the current public health
infrastructure so that states, tribes, communities, and their
public health agencies may respond to the challenge to protect
and improve the public's health in the 21st century."
The national Turning Point effort seeks to facilitate systems
improvement by providing public health practitioners and their
diverse array of partners with support to consider innovative
strategies for collaborating to transform and strengthen public
and community health practice. In addition to providing grants
to states and communities, The Turning Point Initiative provides
public conferences for public health partners and targeted technical
assistance. The Initiative has a national focus on Governance,
especially on modernizing public health law.
The Alaska Division of Public Health (DPH), DHSS is funded
by the RWJF as a Turning Point partner. Our state's activities
started with a planning process, the Alaska Public Health Improvement
Process (APHIP), which selected several initiatives for action.
The Data and Evaluation Unit in DPH has prime responsibility
for the development of a public health data system. DEU also
serves as state liaison to the Turning Point communities in
Alaska.
Alaska participates in the National Excellence Collaboratives
on Performance
Management and Public
Health Statute Modernization.
For more information on the Turning
Point Project,
contact
Pat Nault.
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