This course focuses on the third core public health function of monitoring health services to communities, collaborating with other health disciplines in the development and delivery of needed services, and using quality assurance activities to improve health, illness and health resources to communities. Students will learn the use of surveillance, evaluation, and performance improvement techniques in assuring cost-effective health services for communities and targeted health care environments such as home health or managed care. They will evaluate the use of nursing taxonomies for classification of aggregate level outcomes. Culturally competent care in vulnerable and multicultural communities and the use of informatics in assurance are emphasized.