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Public Health
Data on public health reported by J. Grieb and co-researchers
July 29th, 2008
"Historically, local public health in Massachusetts has been largely decentralized, with each town responsible for providing local public health services. After 9/11, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) began to plan for bioterrorism and other possible public health emergencies and found that having 351 separate departments made emergency planning difficult and dispersing of funds a challenge," researchers in the United States report. "To facilitate this process, MDPH created seven emergency preparedness regions and asked local public health departments to engage in joint planning. This article describes the formation of Region 4b and how the region...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-07-29)
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