General Purpose
The Assessment Operations Group in the Washington State
Department of Health is coordinating the development of
guidelines for public health assessment. The guidelines are
intended to promote good professional practice among staff
involved in assessment activities within the Washington State
Department of Health and Local Health Jurisdictions. Our
purpose is to summarize what we consider best practice to
encourage all those in public health to be better users of
assessment information.
The guidelines focus on issues commonly encountered in
public health practice and where applicable, on issues
unique to Washington state. The guidelines are intended for
audiences with differing levels of public health assessment
training. They assume a basic knowledge of epidemiology and
biostatistics and are not intended to recreate basic texts
and other sources of information. Some of these are listed
under references and resources at the end of each topic.
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