Local health departments often use multidisciplinary top management teams (TMTs) to organize the work of the agency. The purpose of this study was to examine the use of TMTs in North Carolina local health departments and how TMTs use affected agency performance. TMT diversity and TMT performance positively affected the local health departments' (LHDs) performance. As well, the TMTs' agenda affe...

W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USAa; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australiab; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USAc; Research Centre for Vitamins and Vaccines, Bandim Health Pro...

As public health departments around the country undergo accreditation using the Public Health Accreditation Board standards, the process provides a new opportunity to integrate ethics metrics into day-to-day public health practice. While the accreditation standards do not explicitly address ethics, ethical tools and considerations can enrich the accreditation process by helping health departmen...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe the development of the public health surveillance system for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games; document its major findings; and discuss the implications for public health surveillance for future events. DESIGN Planning for the system took almost three years. Its major components included increased surveillance of communicable diseases; presentations to sentinel emerge...

INTRODUCTION When using emergency department (ED) data sets for public health surveillance, a standard approach is needed to define visits attributable to asthma. Asthma can be the first (primary) or a subsequent (2nd through 11th) diagnosis. Our study objective was to develop a definition of ED visits attributable to asthma for public health surveillance. We evaluated the effect of including v...

Health & Demographic Surveillance System Profile: The Dikgale Health and Demographic Surveillance System Marianne Alberts,* Sekgothe A Dikotope, Solomon R Choma, Matshane L Masemola, Sewela EP Modjadji, Felistas Mashinya, Sandra Burger, Ian Cook, Sanette J Brits and Peter Byass Department of Medical Sciences, Public Health and Health Promotion, University of Limpopo, Polokwane, South Africa, IN...

BACKGROUND The re-engineering of emergency department (ED) processes in the UK since 2002 has produced significant reductions in waiting times. AIMS We aim to describe the generic themes contributory to this improvement in performance, which has led to progress not yet replicated elsewhere in the English-speaking world. METHODS We reviewed the Emergency Services Collaborative (ESC) set up b...

The Great Lakes Center of Excellence in Environmental Health (GLCEEH), an innovative capacity-building component of the University of Illinois, performs health hazard evaluations in collaboration with the Illinois Department of Public Health and local health departments. GLCEEH has provided state and local health departments with faculty, industrial-hygiene expertise, and research expertise to ...

1 Medical Research Council/Wits University Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 2 WHO Collaborating Centre for Verbal Autopsy, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Umeå University, 90187 Umeå, Sweden 3 Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Divisi...