Assessment of validity of the National Public Health Performance Standards: The local public health performance assessment instrument

Public Health Reports

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 28-36

  Beaulieu, Joyce ^b   Scutchfield, F Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UK Center for Health Services Management and Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; EVALUATION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RELIABILITY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036398582     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3549(04)50105-X     Document Type: Article

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