Front Matter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Understanding Health and Its Determinants -- 3 Managing a Shared Responsibility for the Health of a Community -- 4 A Community Health Improvement Process -- 5 Measurement Tools for a Community Health Improvement Process -- 6 Conclusions and Recommendations -- A Prototype Performance Indicator Sets -- A.1 Prototype Indicator Set: Breast and Cervical Cancers -- A.2 Prototype Indicator Set: Depression -- A.3 Prototype Indicator Set: Elder Health -- A.4 Prototype Indicator Set: Environmental and Occupational Lead Poisoning -- A.5 Prototype Indicator Set: Health Care Resource Allocation -- A.6 Prototype Indicator Set: Infant Health -- A.7 Prototype Indicator Set: Tobacco and Health -- A.8 Prototype Indicator Set: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases -- A.9 Prototype Indicator Set: Violence -- B Methodological Issues in Developing Community Health Profiles and Performance Indicator Sets -- Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Exploring the Issues -- D Using Performance Monitoring to Improve Community Health: Conceptual Framework and Community Experience -- E Committee Biographies -- Acronyms -- Index.