City-County Health Department Mergers

Promoting Evidence-Based Decision Making in a Local Health Department, Pueblo City–County, Colorado

BACKGROUND Evidence-based decision making (EBDM) is an effective strategy for addressing population health needs. Assessing and reducing barriers to using EBDM in local health departments may improve practice and provide insight into disseminating EBDM principles among public health practitioners. COMMUNITY CONTEXT Administrative leaders at the Pueblo City-County Health Department, Pueblo, Co...

California's county and city environmental health services delivery system.

The purpose of the authors' research was to assess the current status of county and city environmental health service delivery in California with the aim of providing a foundation for informed decision making about environmental health service delivery. Standardized interviews were conducted from March 2005 to May 2005 with 55 (88 percent) of the 62 county and city directors of environmental he...

Barriers to information access among county health department employees.

As part of a study to explore information use, 137 public health employees responded to the question: What are the main barriers that you face in accessing information you need to do your job? 74% of employees indicated 154 barriers. Of these 65% were related to technology or resources. Fewer barriers related to time (24%) and communication (13%). Efforts to address resource and technology barr...

Health Department - FY 2018 Adopted Budget (Fairfax County, Virginia)

Tangelo County Health Department Adult Influenza Immunization Program

Each year about 48,000 adults die from vaccine preventable diseases in the United States. The purpose of immunization programs is to prevent illness and death from diseases such as influenza, pneumococcal disease, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, and rubella. The public health objectives established by Healthy People 2010 include a goal of achieving 90% immunization coverage of...