A preliminary comparison between local public health units in the Canadian Province of Ontario and in the United States.
Public health departments in the U.S. and in Ontario, Canada, were compared to address the funding and staffing and the size and program content of local health departments after Canada adapted universal, comprehensive publicly funded health insurance in 1971. In Ontario, local health departments a...
| Published in: | Public Health Reports Vol. 110; pp. 35 - 42 |
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Association of Schools of Public Health
January/February 1995
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