Managerial and professional beliefs influencing public health privatization: Results of a national survey of local health department directors

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 97-110

  Keane, Christopher ^a,b   Marx, John ^a   Ricci, Edmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b 211 Parran Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELEPHONE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONTRACT SERVICES; DECISION MAKING, ORGANIZATIONAL; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PRIVATIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038651917     PISSN: 00221465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1519818     Document Type: Article

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