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State or Local Health Department

Known as: Health Department 
A part of the public health system that includes administrative and service units concerned with the health of persons in specific jurisdictions, i.e… 
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2012
2012
Where is obesity prevention on the map?: distribution and predictors of local health department prevention activities in relation to county-level obesity prevalence in the United States.
CONTEXT The system of local health departments (LHDs) in the United States has the potential to advance a locally oriented public… 
2003
2003
A model for public health workforce development using the National Public Health Performance Standards Program.
Workforce development programs in public health should link improvements in workers' performance with improvements in their… 
2000
2000
Impact of vaccine financing on vaccinations delivered by health department clinics.
OBJECTIVES This study measured the number of childhood vaccinations delivered at health department clinics (HDCs) before and… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Nursing Home Survey Deficiencies for Physical Restraint Use
New federal regulations, implemented in 1990, severely restrict the use of physical restraints in nursing homes nationwide. This… 
Review
1995
Review
1995
Epidemiology and practice of emergency medicine in a developing country.
1995
1995
Factors affecting children's attitudes toward health care and responses to stressful medical procedures.
Assessed factors hypothesized to influence children's and mothers' attitudes toward health care phenomena and children's distress… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Reducing adolescent pregnancy through a school- and community-based intervention: Denmark South Carolina revisited.
A 1987 article by Vincent Clearie and Schluchter in the Journal of the American Medical Association documented declines in… 
1993
1993
Patterns of Use of Mammography Among Inner-City Detroit Women: Contrasts Between a Health Department, HMO, and Private Hospital
This study assessed the pattern of utilization of mammography among 2,880 inner-city minority women 40 years of age or older who… 
1991
1991
Evaluation of a follow-up system in a county health department's immunization clinic.
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
The influence of client-provider relationships on teenage women's subsequent use of contraception.
This paper describes the relationships of selected dimensions of nurse-client interaction in county health department family… 
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