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Local Health Departments

Links to county and state agencies throughout the region.

Local Health Departments

Filed Under: Jonathan Purtle

POSTED: Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 11:51 AM

Jonathan Purtle, Doctoral candidate in public health. Works at Drexel's Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice

County and state agencies throughout the region offer services ranging from, in most cases, vaccination clinics to restaurant inspection databases. Behavioral health, aging, medical examiner and other county departments may be part of health or linked to it.

Pennsylvania:

Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Bucks County Department of Health & Human Services
Chester County Department of Health
Delaware County Department of Intercommmunity Health Coordination (also see state health center)
Montgomery County Department of Health
State of Pennsylvania Department of Health (responsible for many public health issues in Delaware County and in the majority of counties statewide outside the southeast)

New Jersey:

Delaware:

State of Delaware Division of Public Health

Is a key agency missing from this list? Let us know and we'll look into it.

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