Cross-Jurisdictional Resource Sharing in Local Health Departments: Implications for Services, Quality, and Cost

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Examines Local Health Departments (LHDs) in Connecticut and Massachusetts and discusses how to increase capacity of public health systems in smaller municipalities. Analyzes 15 resource-sharing jurisdictions and 54 single-municipality jurisdictions and provides benefits and drawbacks of the 2 models. Includes data on demographic and organizational characteristics of independent and sharing municipalities including percentages of rural, suburban, and urban municipality type.

Debbie L. Humphries, Justeen Hyde, Ethan Hahn, et al.

Frontiers in Public Health, 6(115), 1-13

04/2018

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Governance of healthcare organizations · Networking and collaboration · Public health · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Connecticut · Massachusetts