Digital Government and Public Health

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Fountain, Jane E.
• Description:
  Digital government is typically defined as the production and delivery of information and services inside government and between government and the public using a range of information and communication technologies. Two types of government relationships with other entities are government-to-citizen and government-to-government relationships. Both offer opportunities and challenges. Assessment of a public health agency's readiness for digital government includes examination of technical, managerial, and political capabilities. Public health agencies are especially challenged by a lack of funding for technical infrastructure and expertise, by privacy and security issues, and by lack of Internet access for low-income and marginalized populations. Public health agencies understand the difficulties of working across agencies and levels of government, but the development of new, integrated e-programs will require more than technical change — it will require a profound change in paradigm.
• Subjects:
  Government Internet
• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 2004; 1(4).
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  1
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:dd51dd9a07cac375644219684eff903b4fc12f00db03ede31b7e8bbbd4a282aabeef83d46abc125fbf1f01cd77ba4635549a39a87a48b8ba5217392dec722149
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/19857/cdc_19857_DS1.pdf
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