Environmental health practice: statistically based performance measurement.
OBJECTIVES: State environmental and health protection agencies have traditionally relied on a facility-by-facility inspection-enforcement paradigm to achieve compliance with government regulations. We evaluated the effectiveness of a new approach that uses a self-certification random sampling design...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 97; no. 5; pp. 819 - 825 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Public Health Association
May2007
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