National Profile of Local Health Departments, 2013 / Jan Wilhoit .

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Wilhoit, Jan.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 34990.

ICPSR ; 34990

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2014-07-01.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Conducted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the purpose of this survey of local health departments (LHDs) was to advance and support the development of a database for LHDs to describe and understand their structure, function, and capacities. A core set of questions was submitted to every LHD. In addition, some LHDs received one of two randomly assigned modules of supplemental questions. The core questions covered governance, funding, workforce (staffing levels, occupations employed, top executive education and licensure), LHD activities, community health assessment and health improvement planning, use of the Community Guide of Preventive Services, and policy-making and advocacy. The surveyed LHD activities include immunization, screening for diseases and conditions, treatment for communicable diseases, maternal and child health, epidemiology and surveillance activities, population-based primary prevention activities, and regulation, inspection and/or licensing activities. Topics covered by Module 1 included quality improvement, accreditation through the Public Health Accreditation Board, sharing of resources across LHDs, human resources issues, partnerships and collaboration with other organizations in the community, practice-based research, health impact assessments, use of the County Health Rankings reports, and collaboration with public health institutes. Module 2 examined emergency preparedness, public health informatics, access to health care services, and health disparities. Cf.: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34990.v1

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2015-01-05.

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