In a national study of local public health departments, we investigated satisfaction with community engagement activities for emergency preparedness and response planning. At the national level, preparedness activities that concern the mobilization of community resources were rated as most successful. ...
Local health departments contribute to population health improvement through the core functions of assessment, policy development, and assurance. Their capacity to perform these functions may be affected by funding and staffing.To describe local health department funding and staffing levels and determine th...
Local Public Health and the State.Local Public Health and the State.The author reflects on the local public health and the state. The auspices and structure of the governmental presence in health vary from town to town in the U.S. The state relationships with local health departments are dive...
Schools and State and Local health departments must monitor immunization levels to ensure that all communities are protected from potentially life-threatening diseases and, if necessary, respond promptly to an emerging public health threat. Local health departments have jurisdiction to administer this rule...
Local health departments (LHDs) vary in their capacity to perform public health services by the size of population they serve. Little is known about the extent of emerging primary prevention activities at small LHDs. The objectives of this study were to describe various diabetes-related patient ...
To characterize public health informatics (PHI) specialists and identify the informatics needs of the public health workforce. Cross-sectional study. US local and state health agencies. Employees from state health agencies central office (SHA-COs) and local health departments (LHD...
This study discusses the findings from a survey of the knowledge, attitudes, and clinical practice regarding cancer prevention and early detection of 101 nurse practitioners (NPs) working in the 87 county public health departments in North Carolina. Results show that nurse practitioners provide breast...
local health departmentPublic Health Accreditation BoardThis article focuses on supports and challenges to health equity that small local health departments (LHDs) experienced while working toward national reaccreditation or Pathways Recognition with the Public Health Accreditation Board's Standards & ...
City Health O cials (NACCHO) surveyed a sample o local health departments (LHDs) nationwide in the months o January and February 2010 to measure the impact o the economic recession on LHDs’ jobs, programs, and budgets. This was the third in a series o ...
Diffusion of practice-based research in local public health: what differentiates adopters from nonadopters? To examine the level of involvement by local health departments (LHDs) in practice-based research (PBR) activities, and determine factors associated with v... H Gulzar,Shah,Kay,... - 《...