Cross-Jurisdictional Relationships in Local Public Health: Preliminary Summary of an Environmental Scan

Outlines issues involved in formal collaborative relationships between local health departments to enhance services across communities, including how stakeholders define them, structure, rationale, effectiveness, success and risk factors, and barriers

Engagement Across Developmental Periods

The goal of this chapter is to provide a cohesive developmental framework and foundation for which to understand student engagement across early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. Guided by the bioecological theory of human development and the person-environment fit perspective, this chapter extends Finn\u27s participation-identification model of engagement by mapping student engagement within a larger developmental sequence. This chapter discusses student engagement within specific developmental periods that are tied to the developmental tasks, opportunities, and challenges unique to early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence. Student engagement is found to be a nuanced developmental outcome, and the differences may be a result of the maturation of biological, cognitive, and socioemotional developmental tasks and the changing contextual landscape for the children and adolescents. Recommendations for future research as well as policy implications are also discussed

Public Health At Center Stage:New Roles, Old Props

The public health system represents a wide variety of actors playing key roles in the ongoing script to improve the quality and quantity of life for the U.S. population. The specific parts that public health is being asked to play and the resources available to support its infrastructure for prevention and response to infectious diseases, chronic medical conditions, and disasters are discussed here in light of new national survey data from state and local jurisdictions. Although the public health system has both traditional and newly defined roles to play, resources,as measured by per capita spending and workforce availability,have not kept pace.[Health Affairs 25, no. 4 (2006): 911–922; 10.1377/hlthaff.25.4.911