The United States has a complex governmental public health system. Agencies at the
federal, state, and local levels all contribute to the protection and promotion of the …

Objective: The objective of this research was to explore the relationship between general
employee satisfaction and specific characteristics of the job and the health agency and to …

Objectives: This review examines the influence of the Finance report's 10 recommendations
on public health policy and practice. Design: This review utilized peer-reviewed and gray …

Since its inception, participatory budgeting (PB) has been advocated for by both scholars
and practitioners of public administration. In South Korea, PB has been widely adopted …

Objective: Approximately 25% of the public health workforce plans to retire by 2020.
Succession planning is a core capability of the governmental public health enterprise; …

Objectives. We examined critical budget and priority criteria for state health agencies to
identify likely decision-making factors, pressures, and opportunities in times of austerity …

Background State and local public health department infrastructure in the US was impacted
by the 2008 economic recession. The nature and impact of these staffing changes have not …

Introduction We examined the percentage of local government taxes (“fiscal allocation”)
dedicated to local health departments on a national level, as well as correlates of local …

Objectives: To simulate allocations of Public Health Emergency Preparedness funds to
counties using alternative metrics of need, minimum allocation amounts, and the proportion …

Objectives: To understand, through perspectives from local and state public health
professionals, the alignment of contemporary environmental and community health issues …