Nicole Lurie

Prince George's County, Maryland, faces the ongoing challenge of ensuring the health of its residents in the context of severe fiscal constraints. To help policymakers address this challenge, this report describes the demographic and health characteristics of Prince George's County residents; assesses health care system access and capacity within the county; and analyzes patterns of hospital and emergency department use.

A manual of standardized proficiency tests to help public health agencies develop strategies for testing their disease reporting systems. This operations manual provides public health agencies with a set of standardized proficiency tests to aid in the development of regular and consistent strategies for testing the ability of public health disease reporting systems to receive and respond to case reports 24 hours a day, seven days a week.