Building the evidence for decision-making: The relationship between local public health capacity and community mortality

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages S211-S216

  Schenck, Anna P ^a   Meyer, Anne Marie ^a   Kuo, Tzy Mey ^b   Cilenti, Dorothy ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NORTH CAROLINA; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MORTALITY; NORTH CAROLINA; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84924654479     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302500     Document Type: Article

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