Laying the groundwork for evidence-based public health: Why some local health departments use more evidence-based decision-making practices than others

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue , 2015, Pages S189-S197

  Lovelace, Kay A ^a   Aronson, Robert E ^a   Rulison, Kelly L ^a   Labban, Jeffrey D ^a   Shah, Gulzar H ^b   Smith, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Health Surveillance and Analysis Unit Guilford County Department of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929049837     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302306     Document Type: Article

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