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The Local Health Department Workforce : Findings from the 2008 National Profile of Local Health Departments
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May 2010
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Description:The purpose of this report is to provide information on the local health department (LHD) workforce, based on data collected in the 2008 National Profile of LHDs (Profile) study. This report includes information on the size of the LHD workforce, occupations employed, race and ethnicity of LHD leaders and staff, career paths of LHD top executives, staff recruitment and retirement, and workforce development.
The 2008 Profile was a Web-based survey of all 2,794 LHDs in the United States, conducted from July through October 2008, with an overall response rate of 83 percent. Although a large set of core questions was administered to all LHDs, additional questions grouped into three modules were also administered to three different randomly selected subsamples of LHDs. This report is based on data from 2,332 responses to the core survey questions and 473 responses to Module 2. The report also presents longitudinal analysis of data from 1,880 LHDs that responded to both 2005 and 2008 Profile Surveys and whose jurisdiction boundaries did not change between 2005 and 2008 (approximately two-thirds of all LHDs). For the longitudinal analysis, data from both surveys were combined for each individual LHD rather than separately performing aggregate analysis from the two datasets.
Funding for the 2008 Profile study and the development of this report was provided by Award Number 5U38HM000449-02 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Award Number 61911 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation® in Princeton, NJ. NACCHO is grateful for this support. The report contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC or RWJF.
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