Public Health

Local Health Departments have played a key role in the development of public health in the United States. At the national level, there have been a number of improvements since 1990.

As a result of the economic downturn, local health departments (LHDs) are having to make decisions about cutting health services to illegal immigrants and other uninsured residents (Turnock,, 188). NACCHO has responded to press inquiries on the impact of the loss of funding will have on local healthcare systems. In more than half of the states, public health laboratories have deteriorated through the decades and are no longer as capable ...