Health departments get mixed marks for using Web to communicate ...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 07/06/2009 - 22:00

(RAND Corporation) A new study gives state and local health departments get mixed marks for efforts to convey information about the H1N1 virus to the public using their Web sites immediately after US officials declared a public health emergency in April.

While most state health departments posted information about the outbreak within 24 hours of the federal announcement, just one-third of the local health departments studied did the same, according to the RAND Corp. report.


 

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