Organizational Priorities for Advancing Cooperative Extension in Selected Urban Counties in Florida

Advancing STI priorities in the SDG era: priorities for action

The Sustainable Development Goals present an opportunity to reimagine and then reconfigure the approach to controlling sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The predilection of STIs for women and for vulnerable populations means that services that ameliorate STIs, by their nature, enhance equity, a key focus of the goals. Given the considerable breadth and depth of the goals, it is important ...

The Influence of Selected Personological and Organizational Characteristics Upon Professional Development Needs of State Extension Specialists in Florida Olanda Bata University of Florida

This current study completes a three-phase process to determine critical professional development needs of the University of Florida Extension (UFE) state specialists. Phase I data were collected from county directors, Phase II from county faculty, while this phase involved data collected from state extension specialists themselves. In addition to identifying critical professional development n...

Spouse Murder Defendants in Large Urban Counties

The effectiveness of public defenders in four Florida counties

The present study utilizes data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics to examine the effectiveness of public defenders in Florida to assess whether the case outcomes of defendants with public defenders are similar to the case outcomes of defendants with retained attorneys, controlling for legally-relevant variables. Methods: The present study utilizes both logistic and OLS regression analysis t...

NCHS urban-rural classification scheme for counties.

OBJECTIVES This report details the National Center for Health Statistics' (NCHS) development of the 2006 NCHS Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties and provides some examples of how the scheme can be used to describe differences in health measures by urbanization level. METHODS The 2006 NCHS urban-rural classification scheme classifies all U.S. counties and county-equivalents into si...