Brittan Williams

Rooted in our commitment to continuous quality improvement, PHAB is refreshing the Accreditation Standards & Measures and creating more flexible processes. Guided by extensive feedback from health departments and informed by years of data, these updates are a refinement of the existing Standards & Measures, not an overhaul.

Vital records are essential to tracking life expectancy, creating effective public health programs in communities, and providing foundational data necessary to perform critical public health functions. Vital records capture life’s most critical moments by recording and translating data into health statistics used to inform morbidity, mortality, and health outcome trends among local, state, and national agencies, as well as researchers.