Organizational Characteristics of Large Urban Health Departments
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Organizational Characteristics of Large Urban Health Departments
Approximately 150 million Americans lived in large metropolitan jurisdictions in 2013. About 1 in 7 Americans is served by a member of the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), a group of 20 of the largest local health departments (LHDs) in the United States. In this brief, we describe the organizational characteristics of the country's largest health departments, including those that form the BC...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1078-4659
DOI: 10.1097/phh.0000000000000172