Interjurisdictional Collaboration: Local Public Health Officials Versus County Commissioners

Resource Summary

This article reports on a survey of Montana local health officers and county commissioners to determine their viewpoints on interjurisdictional collaboration in public health service delivery. The results indicate that public health officials and county commissioners seem to have similar viewpoints on reasons to collaborate and policy considerations, but different viewpoints on barriers to collaboration.

Available online: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21135650