Environmental factors and quality improvement in county and local health departments

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 240-249

  Yeager, Valerie A ^a   Menachemi, Nir ^b   Ginter, Peter M ^b   Sen, Bisakha P ^b   Savage, Grant T ^b   Beitsch, Leslie M ^c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

environment; local health department; public health; quality improvement; resource dependency theory

Indexed keywords

CATERING SERVICE; COMMUNITY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SMOKING; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; OBESITY; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876120646     PISSN: 10784659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PHH.0b013e31825f74b2     Document Type: Article

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