Skip Navigation

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(11):834-835; doi:10.1093/jnci/djk229
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Request Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Savage, L.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Savage, L.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© Oxford University Press 2007.

NEWS

Epidemiologists in Short Supply, States Say

Liz Savage

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

State health departments are plagued with "striking shortages" of epidemiologists that could undermine their role as public health's disease detectives.

According to a 2006 report by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, state health departments need to employ approximately 34% more epidemiologists—about 1,200 people nationwide—to provide adequate surveillance of community health hazards and investigate outbreaks of disease.

A combination of factors . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?