State and Local Public Health Relationships
Record Type
DataSet
Source
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Source URL
Description
federal agencies, state health agencies, tribal and territorial health departments, and more than 2,500 local health departments. Coordination across these different levels of government is essential in assuring the public’s health. This study, part of the National Public Health Improvement Initiative administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focuses on nine states and describes how state and local health departments have developed structures and processes to facilitate collaboration.
MEDLINE Search Strategy
Keywords
Health Policy;
Health Services Needs and Demand;
Medically Uninsured;
Preventive Health Services;
Public Health
Purpose
In order to more systematically and accurately classify state health departments in terms of their governance relationships with local health departments, ASTHO engaged NORC, with input from NACCHO, to develop a State and Local Health Department Governance Classification System.
Record Originator
InfoPac
Special Notes
Case Studies in State and Local Public Health Collaboration:
Case Study 1: Arizona;
Case Study 2: California;
Case Study 3: Florida;
Case Study 4: Massachusetts;
Case Study 5: Ohio;
Case Study 6: Oklahoma;
Case Study 7: Oregon;
Case Study 8: Washington;
Case Study 9: Wisconsin
UI
7943
Date Revised
Dec. 2, 2019, 10:23 a.m.