Local public health department funding: Trends over time and relationship to health outcomes

Wisconsin Medical Journal

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-32

  Boeke, Melissa C ^a   Zahner, Susan J ^b   Booske, Bridget C ^a   Remington, Patrick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; MEDICAL STAFF; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH;

FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WISCONSIN;

EID: 40849111572     PISSN: 10981861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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