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Since 2008, 34,400 local health department jobs have been eliminated due to budget cuts. As a result, local health departments (LHDs) have been forced to make tough decisions about cutting jobs and public health services as they continue to keep their communities healthy and protected from public health emergencies. Follow media coverage of these hard choices, as well as innovative ways that LHDs are meeting community health needs. More » 
Basic health and safety protections that people take for granted are seriously threatened by the current adverse economic conditions. Budget cuts and job losses in industry have been big news for more than a year, but local health departments have been hard hit, too. Read NACCHO Executive Director Robert Pestronk's editorial on the subject, which appeared in the June 7, 2010 issue of Modern Healthcare. More » |
