Organizing State and Local Health Departments for Public Health Preparedness

• Main Author: Wasserman, Jeffrey (auth)
• Other Authors: Jacobson, Peter (auth), Lurie, Nicole (auth), Nelson, Christopher (auth), Ricci, Karen A. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2006
• Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; Terrorism, armed struggle; Social impact of disasters; Health Sciences; Political Science; Sociology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Explains the factors influencing the particular ways in which state and local public health systems are organized, how the various types of relationships that exist between state and local public health departments have been arrived at, and, most important, the consequences of such structures and re...