Using more activities to address health disparities: Local health departments and their "top executives"

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 153-161

  Yang, Youngran ^a   Bekemeier, Betty ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Health disparities; Leadership; Local health departments; Public health leaders

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873310858     PISSN: 10784659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0b013e318252ee41     Document Type: Article

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