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The Use of Time and Cost Data in Environmental Health Program Planning

The Use of Time and Cost Data in Environmental Health Program Planning John A. Locke, M.P.H., F.A.P.H.A. PROGRAM planning is a task with which all environmental health administrators must deal. The ever-increasing demand for environmental health services and the need for continued official agency activity in both traditional and new areas of the environmental spectrum make program planning increasingly important. It is only through careful and detailed planning that available resources can be used to greatest effectiveness and the maximum gain made in meeting the community's environmental health needs. In planning program activities, the administrator is accustomed to weighing conflicting demands for personnel, equipment, and other resources. He must then assign program priorities on the basis of public health significance, as reflected by morbidity and mortality data or other measures which serve as indexes to the present or potential severity of various environmental problems; public demand, as shown by citizen complaints, requests for service, or by the interest and support of the community's political leaders and governmental officials; or based on the demands of current statutes, codes, and ordinances which frequendy specify a minimum frequency of inspection, sample collection, licensing, or other health department activity. MARCH. 19964 These are valid and important considerations in any planning operation. It is suggested http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association

The Use of Time and Cost Data in Environmental Health Program Planning

John A. Locke
American Journal of Public Health , Volume 54 (3) – Mar 1, 1964
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John A. Locke, M.P.H., F.A.P.H.A. PROGRAM planning is a task with which all environmental health administrators must deal. The ever-increasing demand for environmental health services and the need for continued official agency activity in both traditional and new areas of the environmental spectrum make program planning increasingly important. It is only through careful and detailed planning that available resources can be used to greatest effectiveness and the maximum gain made in meeting the community's environmental health needs. In planning program activities, the administrator is accustomed to weighing conflicting demands for personnel, equipment, and other resources. He must then assign program priorities on the basis of public health significance, as reflected by morbidity and mortality data or other measures which serve as indexes to the present or potential severity of various environmental problems; public demand, as shown by citizen complaints, requests for service, or by the interest and support of the community's political leaders and governmental officials; or based on the demands of current statutes, codes, and ordinances which frequendy specify a minimum frequency of inspection, sample collection, licensing, or other health department activity. MARCH. 19964 These are valid and important considerations in any planning operation. It is suggested

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Published: Mar 1, 1964

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