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Consolidating Health Departments in Summit County, Ohio: A One Year Retrospective

This presentation is part of a panel discussion entitled, “You’re Not Alone: Dialogue about Cross-Jurisdictional Sharing.” The discussion occurred during the National Association of County and City Health Officials annual meeting on July 12, 2012, in Los Angeles, CA. A county-level policymaker from Ohio who participated in the implementation of cross-jurisdictional sharing (CJS) of public […]

Intergovernmental Agreement (San Luis Valley Public Health Partnership in Colorado)

This document provides an example of a four-year intergovernmental agreement among six counties in Colorado officially recognizing the collaborative efforts of their jurisdictions to develop regional agreements, activities, and infrastructure for shared public health services in an effort to increase capacity, contain costs, maximize assets and effectively impact health outcomes.

Service Sharing and Tribal Health Departments: Initial Considerations

Nancy Young, executive director of the Institute for Wisconsin’s Health, focuses on general issues related to CJS arrangements among local and tribal governments. In related presentations, Carol Rollins, environmental health director with the Ho-Chunk Nation Department of Health, and Christine Hovell, health officer with Jackson County Public Health, describe their specific experiences.

Public Health Cost Estimation Methods and Consolidation of Local Health Departments in Ohio: Motivation and Impacts

These presentation slides accompany a webinar hosted by the Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks National Coordinating Center. The webinar focused on the use of cost estimation methods to predict staffing and spending for public health improvement standards (using NACCHO core public health services). In addition, results were shared from a study of 20 city-county public […]