In this study, the authors defined local health department broadly and as a result, included both fully functioning local health departments (comprised of multiple public health professionals), as well as local health officers (who provided a much more limited range of services and often did not constitute a professionally-educated public health professional). Often, in the latter case, single full-, or part-time, health officers constituted local town officials (e.g., town managers, select-persons, building inspectors, plumbers, or sanitarians) or voluntary citizens (often retired) who had professional or personal interest/expertise
in public health (e.g., college professor in a health-related area such as microbiology, physician, nurse, epidemiologist, pollution control expert). Hence, while the latter represented the ‘‘local public health entity’’ included within this survey, they did not necessarily represent or reflect the same capacity or level of expertise that was reflected among
the former.
In this study, the authors defined local health department broadly and as a result, included both fully functioning local health departments (comprised of multiple public health professionals), as well as local health officers (who provided a much more limited range of services and often did not constitute a professionally-educated public health professional). Often, in the latter case, single full-, or part-time, health officers constituted local town officials (e.g., town managers, select-persons, building inspectors, plumbers, or sanitarians) or voluntary citizens (often retired) who had professional or personal interest/expertisein public health (e.g., college professor in a health-related area such as microbiology, physician, nurse, epidemiologist, pollution control expert). Hence, while the latter represented the ‘‘local public health entity’’ included within this survey, they did not necessarily represent or reflect the same capacity or level of expertise that was reflected amongthe former.
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